Honestly, I agree with @StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net

Ok fair enough, but I wouldn’t have installed Linux if I had not seen it recommended.

I’m not a computer toucher, but I can follow written advice.

These sorts of posts always scold anyone giving out actual solutions just so being miserable can continue. This cultural thing almost has an end of history type vibe to it. It’s also pretty hostile to divergent and often solution focused neurotypes.

Linux evangelism kinda makes sense, no one is spending billions on marketing and ads for it. I think Linux evangelists should ask about use cases first, instead of just posting a generic “use Linux”.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    Maybe they’re not a computer toucher

    yes, because this is an innate, likely genetic trait, you are born with, and not like, a skill you could acquire. It’s like I call an electrician every time I have to replace a lightbulb, I’m just not an electricity toucher.

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      5 days ago

      We westoids are so disconnected from the processes of actually producing things that very few people know shit about fuck regarding how things we use every day work. It’s rare to find someone knowledgeable about fixing or modifying even one category of thing.