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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2026
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It's hard to believe there is anyone who would care so much about Windows that they naturally get this dedicated to crusading for it.
We know now days that there are people getting paid to discredit vegans online, and that's the only explanation for this that makes sense to me.
discredit vegans
lolwat?
like, "yeah it's true, they're all eating bacon when we aren't looking-" ?
my deceased FIL was a ms cheerleader for decades, went to MSDN events, had a home office fuckin chock fulla MS credentials and certificates (wooden displays plaques) - he would talk about Linux being a) useless hobbyist OS that'll never be reliable for REAL jobs (this was already delusional in the late 90s) and b) it'll be 'outlawed because they're gonna find stolen code watch'.
so just fyi, some people are deranged and ideologically motivated, his was probably due to insecurity about MS - even back then it was heinously expensive (CAL's and licence management being one of his main jobs and a source of constant budget overages).... wonder what he'd think of today's ms with bash and linux lol...
Not just windows.. They just hate Linux.
The reason I think they're an Apple user though, is that Apple users also defend BSD (since, the MacOS core was essentially unix based), and the culture changed a bit to look down on windows less when the intel macs were released with Windows.
I used to sell gear, and a lot of Apple people tend to just like to attack linux in my experience
The funny thing is that they say "linux doesn't run any games", but, MacOS has always sucked at games
I feel like this is probably a disinformation bot. Why would a human being have such strong feelings about an OS that allows people to circumvent corporate control/surveillance on their PC?
Yeah, it's either that or someone who has decided their special interest is hating linux. If it's the user that I think it is, when I looked at their history earlier, pretty much every post of theirs is over the top anti-linux.
Though I am glad to see that most of the accounts I suspect of astroturfing are generally downvoted to the negatives here. Though I do wonder if this place will end up being a training ground for propaganda that works on the segments of the population that are highly represented here that don't seem as susceptible to the shit that would get eaten up on FB or gain some traction on reddit. Actually, windows love probably does well on reddit since it's made up of people who haven't gotten tired enough of the enshitification to leave and are probably doing the same with windows.
That... might even be why they enshitified it so much for no apparent benefit at the cost of many users that contributed positively. Those contributions might not have been seen as so positive if they responded to marketing bullshit negatively.
Nice conspiracy theory! The propaganda bot must be telling the truth!!
Dude tried to argue with me that ECC memory is why windows is better.
Yes, he's that stupid.
He kept trying to argue that anything open source is "commie garbarge."
You can see me completely destroy all of his arguments and he runs away like the MAGA bitch he is. Pathetic.
He said that on Lemmy, an open source platform, hosted mostly (I assume) on Linux servers? Brilliant
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Pretty sure I responded to the same post.
He started saying Linux needed ecc for a while, windows didn't, which is absolutely ridiculous given that a lot of Mac's needed ecc, and windows server explicitly recommends ecc.
My Linux Android phone doesn't use ecc either, or people's Samsung tv
I might be a commie, a criminal, and a pornstar, but I am NOT a cheater.
Can confirm on the porn.
Suggested it might be more fun praising an OS you actually lke, instead of ~500 posts on something you hate. Am now banned
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Commies on Lemmy?
It's more likely than you think
cheaters
We call that lifehack around here!
Well... I am a commie...
hi a commie, i am fest
Lets not give this dork any playtime, eh? He gets off on the attention.
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Why do you think there's such an interest in VFIO and passing a graphics card thru to a VM? You think all these people are just happily making their own cloud gaming Stadia clone? Nah fam, they're fucking cheaters trying to hide their tracks. For every five legit posts there's a "why can't I get BattleEye/EAC to work in a VM?" JUST STOP CHEATING BRO
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Well, that's a gang that is not boring to be with. I'm good with that
If Linux users were commonly cheaters, you'd think games' anti-cheats would work on Linux.
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Oh this is like when epstien got moot to reboot 4chan.
Same verbiage.
Guess they think trans folks are getting steamrolled hard enough now, and are coming for us, boys
Would a criminal not simply pirate a paid operating system?
I can pirate other things! Don't tell me what to steal
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I'm more criminal. I protest government laws I don't like, commit anti-gov acts when disrespected or dehumanised by said gov, and I vehemently oppose corporate exploitation to the point that, in political terminology, I "don't recognise" their authority. More so, my penchant for privacy will likely be criminalised before the decade is out.
cheaters in what? like do we exploit life?
My Linux user is not a criminal, they maybe conspiracy theorist, liar, commie, cheater, criminal but they are not a pornstar.
Edit: forgot conspiracy theorist
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