If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.
  1. You love giving your data away
  2. You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
  3. You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
  4. You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
  5. You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
  6. You’d rather battle corporate tech support
  7. You’d rather rent your software than own it
  8. You think ads belong on your desktop
  9. You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
  10. You like rebooting for every little update
  11. You’re uncomfortable when software is transparent
  12. You think community-made tools can’t be “professional”
  13. You want intrusive AI everywhere, whether it helps or not
  14. You think the command line is only for hackers
  15. You never really wanted your computer to be yours anyway
  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    3·
    33 minutes ago

    And here I was, thinking this was a well thought out article with actual, legitimate reasons why someone wouldn’t want to use Linux. Instead, it’s this smug, autofellating, condescending bullshit. Roland Taylor has some issues.

  • muzzle@lemmy.zip
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Back on the 90s (I know, I know) the joke was that of your VCR was still blinking 12:00 Linux was probably not for you.

    • Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      42 minutes ago

      i mean maybe some distros will add something, i don’t know. and i don’t care because i don’t have to. shit like that is deinstalled faster than an llm can print an emdash.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 hours ago

    “Well if you don’t buy this car you are a moron who can’t see how much better this car is. So keep driving that piece of shit car you dumbass. So, have I sold you on this car?”

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 hours ago

    As a long time linux user, antagonizing people who are unsure if the switch is right for them is very clearly a poor interpersonal choice that will not result in the change we wanna see in the world, or more people adopting linux

    Fuckin seriously, we can do better than this circle jerk. As someone who cares deeply about software being kinder to people it pains me enormously how much of a dump stat interpersonal skills are for so much of the Foss community

    If the authors wanna pat themselves for linux they can do it without creating a unempathetic, condescending, preachy culture that alienates people.

    Just call the article “things we love about having switched to linux” so it finds the right audience and its fine, but this shit sucks and its exactly the kind of crap that has made so many of my friends resistant to hearing what I think is good and special about Foss software. They hear me out anyway, but I’d love for it to not be a fucking uphill battle because Foss people routinely emulate the same preachy, condescending, unempathetic interpersonal apprach that everyone bemoans about the worst vegan spaces online

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    471·
    8 hours ago

    Oh, it’s just a list of pro Linux items but in reverse psychology… Kay.

    I’m already a Linux user, I was kinda curious about a listing of actual reasons Linux might not be for someone.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago
    1. You can’t be trusted with keeping your desktop secure (because Linux sure as hell won’t do that for you).
    2. You need software that can’t run on Linux even via compatibility tools (Multiplayer AAA games don’t count).
    3. You have access to extended security updates for Windows 10.
  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Cool and all but stop the rebooting hate

    1. I just installed some random drivers, I guess without rebooting. Window is intransparent af, but I think so.
    2. Reboots are very important and should be done with updates. Atomic systems make sense!
    • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Its nice that it doesnt pester you at all to reboot or threaten to do it for you though. I reboot maybe once a month to apply whatever updates came through since most of my stuff are flatpaks that get updated live anyway.

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      I’ve been running Fedora for a few weeks and if I update it every time there’s updates available, I’d be rebooting nearly daily, because it insists on rebooting for “system packages”, where debian and even Arch based distros did not require restarts for most things… I’m not even using an immutable version of Fedora

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    89·
    8 hours ago

    Here’s a few more.

    1. You want to use multiple monitors without messing around.

    2. You don’t want to run an emulator for your games.

    3. You like being able to share software with people.

    4. You need corporate software for work or your own business.

    5. You’re looking for a computer that ‘just works’.

    • candyman337@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 hours ago

      The monitor thing is very dependent on distro, I didn’t really have any issues at all with Linux mint or nobara

      As others have said wine/proton is not an emulator and some games run even better on Linux, that being said a lot of AAA games have DRM that prevent you from running them on Linux, that would be your real argument there

      Don’t like being able to share software? A ton of software on Linux is FOSS and available on windows, not all of it of course, but you could say the same about Mac

      Depending on the corporation and software, you can use Linux, but yes, most places are windows shops, so that is difficult

      But yeah,a computer that just “works” I concede most distros will not get you there. Nobara is definitely a bit unstable but I can deal with it because I was in IT for 6 years. Although immutable distros are close, but they definitely still take some knowhow to use, and have their limitations

      Edit: misread part of the comment

    • Goretantath@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 hours ago

      A computer that “just works” nowadays is an android phone, windows has so much broken due to them replacing devs with AI that you can’t justify that as a reason nowadays.

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
        1·
        7 hours ago

        The first one is because at least on Mint, on the machine I have, multiple monitors just don’t work, and I’ve been told it’s not just me, it’s X11. The second is the need for Wine or Bottles (or whatever Valve has done).

        • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          6 hours ago

          Wine literally stands for “WINE Is Not an Emulator”.

          That said, Proton is pretty transparent, you can just install any game off Steam right now and it’ll work 9 times out of 10 without you noticing that you’re using wine. I often can’t tell if I’m using proton or not and get surprised when I go into the game files for one reason or another expecting proton and am surprised to find a native Linux build. There has even been at least one time I’ve switched from a native Linux build to Proton because it ran better, and it was just one toggle.

          Why the resistance to wine? Did you have an issue while using it, or is it the principle of using a compatibility layer?