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
  • Victor@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 month 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.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Not just reverse psychology, I can’t imagine anyone agreeing with most of these. It’s definitely got a holier-than-thou attitude. Like who is this even written for other than people who already use Linux and just want to feel smugly superior?

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    28 days ago

    Oh shit! That’s what we were missing all along! That’s what has, all this time, been keeping adoption down and preventing the year of the linux desktop! A condescending prick talking down to people! We should have figured this out a long time ago! Thanks OP for setting us straight! Now our numbers are sure to skyrocket!

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    30 days 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

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    1·
    30 days 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.

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    22 days ago

    You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”

    This also an affliction of the GNOMEs.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    0·
    30 days ago

    This is exactly the kind of shit that keeps people from switching to Linux y’all know that right?

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
      01·
      30 days ago

      Why should I care? Linux has enough users as it is, development is sustainable. I don’t want all users to switch at once because that would flood forums with noobs asking silly questions.

      It’s their loss if they don’t use Linux. Why should I encourage them to do so? Just to have some shitty Electron apps more which I don’t use?

      It’s much more painful for me that the places I work at don’t use Linux. They won’t be swayed by such an article anyway.

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        30 days ago

        Are you serious? Do you really believe linux can’t get any better or that linux is perfect for you?

        The more people that use linux the more donations it gets from people and the more people use it.

        Also if you think linux is so awesome isn’t it nice to other people to share that awesomeness with them?

        As well the more people that use linux the more apps will be supported on it. Can you say with full confidence that there isn’t a single windows or macos app that doesn’t work perfectly on linux that you don’t want? Even if linux is perfect for you, you rely on the kindness of open source maintainers to maintain linux, can you really not reserve any kindness for other people?

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
          0·
          28 days ago

          I did not say I don’t want more Linux users. I just don’t want them all to switch at once and make it unbearable for “community support” to help each other and improve the ecosystem.

          When everyone switches to desktop (!) Linux all of a sudden, it will make both the current users’ lives and the new users’ lives worse as the community can’t handle such a huge influx.

          Organic growth is fine. You don’t need to market Linux to the masses, as that would only lead to enshittification.

          I’d rather have Linux be imperfect and rough around the edges, but with sustainable, positive growth, than have everyone use Linux and flood bug trackers with so much work that maintainers give up and move to less demanding hobbies. Then the companies would take over and well, we know how it ends (see Windows 11).

          The more people that use linux the more donations it gets from people

          I don’t know if that’s true.

          Also if you think linux is so awesome isn’t it nice to other people to share that awesomeness with them?

          Sure, but I won’t force it onto them. They can choose to use it.

          Do you know what consent is?

            • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              26 days ago

              Countless FOSS maintainers have lamented that millions of users use their software and nobody donates. (Lib)Curl for example is used in countless applications, basically all of them used by huge corporations, and they get flooded with bug reports for software they don’t even maintain, AI slop merge requests and pennies in donations (excuse the hyperbole).

              The lead dev of curl has some funnysad stories to tell: @bagder@mastodon.social 💔🫶

  • boredsquirrel (he)@slrpnk.net
    11·
    19 days ago

    Cool and all but stop the rebooting hate

    1. I just installed some random drivers, I guess without rebooting. Windows is intransparent af, but I think this was the case.
    2. Reboots are very important and should be done with updates. Atomic systems make sense!