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rtfm and other toxicity in the gnu/linux community are a microsoft psyop change my mind
counterpoint: nerds are just like that and you and I both know it
Really, I think rtfm culture predates Windows by a good bit.
the term in association with software predates windows by 6 years (1979-1985) and only 2 years for MS-DOS (1981)
I don’t think it’s okay to be toxic to newbies but there certainly are cases where the solution to problems was a google search and 10 minutes of reading away.
There are a lot of community heroes out there, that spend their days supporting users in forums, without having any monetary benefit from it, that in my opinion may have a reason to be upset if someone does not want to spend any effort on their own in trying to solve their problem.
IDK man. I tried Linux a few times, and it never stuck. Things don’t work, it involves endless reading, or the latter then the prior on loop (where as windows just works).
I’m trying out endeavour ATM and hopefully it will stick. But it took me a solid few attempts, over days, to find out “where does pacman get its apps from”. I know the answer is more conplex, but eventually I foind and the arch web db…with the help of perlexoty.AI.
I didn’t realise it was different than the AUR web db look basically identical. I never noticed the URL difference. As far as Linux has come its still little frustrations that hold it back for even semi tech literste pople.
I’m trying to save from posting in forums (and have rooted a few androids with less than a handfull of posts) but I can’t even work out from the wiki how I can give pacman a list apps to install when it’s spaced out on each line, without making it a .txt file. It’s pretty impossible to “just read” and work out simple things.
Maybe it’s just like my opinion. (I am liking endevour so far).
Getting Arch-based distro as a daily-driver feels like a very strange choice to me, however I should admit that I still use Arch-wiki as a first source of help in case I encounter any problems. But if you like Endeavour, good for you! I should probably check it out too some time :)
Tbh I don’t think Linux users should recommend Linux to Windows users. Linux fundamentally cannot replace Windows, it will never fully replicate its software support or quality. If someone tells me that they need Adobe products or other professional photo/video editors I would genuinely tell them to reinstall Windows.
Linux can absolutely replace windows for the average user.
I still don’t believe Linux needs to be pushed on people and it’s simply not for everyone.
It shouldn’t be pushed on people, but it should be talked about to give people more choice and agency in their home computing.
Is no one going to ask wtf that picture is? Looks like something you would see under an electronic microscope.
it’s a zoomed in 3D laugh cry emoji
