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This silly infighting serves to perpetuate people staying on windows or mac os
I agree but the extent of my "silly infighting" is "don't use Ubuntu". If they stay on Windows instead of Ubuntu, everyone is probably better off.
If you have a problem with any particular system, express it in a way that doesn't denigrate its users. Some people prefer it. Some don't have a choice.
And NEVER call anyone brain-damaged for any reason.
even if they have brain damage?
You don't get to speculate about that. Now drop it.
why can't I? they obviously get to speculate about why users will run away from Ubuntu when anyone points out failures in their OS of choice.
I merely speculated that there were physiological abnormalities that may be contributing to the continued support of a corporate facsimile of Linux.
"But they did it too!" will not fly with me as a valid defense coming from an adult person. Your behaviour is your own responsibility. If you disagree with something, either respond in a polite manner or downvote and move on. Do not accuse others, either individuals or groups, of having a mental deficiency, brain damage, or aberration; and the fact that you would try to minimize what you said shows that you understand why I have an issue with it.
Be nice, or leave.
it does
That's not the only reason, and it's not the biggest reason. People pay $200 to get windows on a new computer because they're never been exposed to anything else.
This comment says a lot about your opinion, especially why no one cares about it.
people continue to use ___________ because it’s already installed.
Let them use whatever in the hell they want. It gets them exposure that there's life without Windows/Mac. You can hate ubuntu without gatekeeping people.
I'm not gatekeeping. they can use whatever OS they want, I'll still mock them for using Ubuntu because it's a sub-par OS built by a worldwide corporation that sells your telemetry to its vendors.
not to mention they force their proprietary app shitstack on their users that the Linux community at large continues to complain about.
so no, not gatekeeping, just calling out the worst parts of a corrupt shit-os.
See, this is the type of uselessly disparaging dialogue that people take issue with. Why on earth did you think that this is an OK thing to say?
You don't think some people who consider trying linux make a web search or ask a question somewhere only to get turned off by people immediately arguing about distros and calling them brain damaged?
Right now it's ubuntu that's the meme target, but there's always something like this. If everyone stopped using ubuntu tomorrow, the people who somehow get their self esteem from having a better distro will find something else to fuel that. They will never be happy
I'm happy if people use linux. I'm even happy if they use WSL or homebrew rather than plain windows or os x as it's a gateway drug, even though having windows in particular as a base system seems needlessly painful
people who get self-esteem from a distro are fragile snowflakes.
I speak poorly about Ubuntu not because it makes me feel empowered, but because it really is a bad distro made by a terrible company.