Plot twist: the person talking in the first panel is the Linux booth owner
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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As a nearly sole Linux user, this is a strength for Linux. The ability to complain about features and push for improvements is exactly what sets it apart from having to submit to profit motivations. Maybe they're misguided, but I'd rather embrace it and chance at growing the community.
If Linux works well for you I'm genuinely happy for you, but it's incompatible with what I use a computer for so that's mighty unfortunate.
I'm stuck with beating windows with a pipe wrench.
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I mean this goes both ways. Someone asks for help diagnosing an issue in windows and inevitably some snarky Linux user feels compelled to say something unhelpful.
I've seen variations of a snarky "I never had this problem on Linux" one-liner comment so many times that I have to resist the urge to write "I never had this problem on Windows" every time I see a Linux user asking for help.
I'll save you the trouble:
"Well linux is maintained by volunteers not a billion dollar multinational corporation that should have the budget to do that"
With a side of:
"That's because windows got in bed with PC OEMs and contracted to be the ONLY preinstalled OS they can use years ago (when it also sucked less), so it became the standard, and now vendor lock in rears it's ugly head, so the other multinational corporations cater to windows. Had any other OS done that you'd use that, you don't like 'windows' itself you like vendor lock in."
When I'm in a moving the goalpost competition and my opponent is a linux evangelist
Inevitably?
My friend, the MAJORITY of the comments will be unhelpful Linux snarks.
This wouldn’t be a problem if you used Linux.
Instead you would have a different problem.
And someone would definitely comment that you wouldn't have that problem on their distro.
And even if you did... You can fix it yourself. And submit the fix for others.
Ignoring that 99.999% of people have no idea how to even begin to write code and believe the terminal to be "hacker mode".
And then you have to figure out how to use git. I want to help OSS projects with translations and often run into having to submit translations through git or some other user hostile interface, using some obscure file format that I also break in the process…
Some projects do use some nice web gui and I help there, but I have enough other things going on in my life that I skip the hard to help projects.
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I'm using Arch btw
Yeah as a huge linux fan we gotta be honest with ourselves 😅 we're kinda fuckin insufferable at times
I think a lot of the technical folks who built the space made interpersonal skills kind of a dump stat- and to be fair, I benefit enormously from the technical ability they have in exchange for that lack of social skill. But it does define the culture of Foss spaces in a bunch of ways that aren't the greatest 😅
It's what convinced me to make a switch to Linux, two years ago by now.
I've seen it mentioned for years at that point. Did it feel annoying? A bit, especially when I was trying to solve something. But it was one post that pushed me over the edge. I've probably seen a lot posts/replies like that before.
I can't say why, I guess the stars aligned, but I'm glad it happened. I probably wouldn't do it, if it weren't for years of constant reminders that Linux is in fact an option.
Yeah, and sometimes the solution really is just "stop using a garbage OS".
Like maybe there's a good reason why it's such a common thing people suggest here
Especially when the only other answer to the problem is "windows is actively preventing you from doing X/doing Y to you because they hate their users and you are the product."
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I feel like this is specifically targeted at the one user posting stuff on the linuxsucks community
It has to be rage bait. It's too funny not to be
It’s hilarious and the older ones especially are riddled with references you’d find in the linuxmemes comm
He did try, years ago, to post cynical but inoffensive memes. I'm pretty sure I had to suspend his account at some point. He's also gotten himself banned from political communities for quoting holocaust deniers, using ableist slurs, and generally being a wanker. He's also posted some antisemitic remarks on other communities. The modlog his quite colorful.
Does he also think number generators are the words of God and is working to build his own OS from scratch?
Wrong flavour of insane.
Oh shit, madthumbs is back? He's always been a hilarious, but equally pathetic troll. I thought we'd lost him when he got all pissy and locked the community a year ago.
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Arguably, the other stalls are all paywalled. So no, you can't just walk away from Linux.
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Me using krita: "i hate your liquify tool, why can't your vector tool behave normally? Why if i change a modifier key for one tool it messes up all tools?"
Krita won't open: PANIK
Does this actually happen, or is this an argument someone had in their head?
On Lemmy…it happens more in reverse.
Example:
That’s in the Windows11 community.
Yeah, that's the smugposting we know and expect.
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Unrealistic to believe the guy at the Linux stall would not come at him like John Constantine pulling out a demonic possession.
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