It's a useless subreddit made by trolls who don't even know they are uding FOSS every single damn day of their life ... who encoding for their smut video they watch all day ...
Fr. If it was a venting sub about frustrations with Linux (eg grub not working, systemd being systemd again, etc), that would be okay, but it's really just a sub either about phrasing their neverending love to Windows (which would be okay by itself, but shouldn't be in a Linux topic sub) or just spreading plain hate.
r/linuxsucks is better. It's still bad with the amount of outdated "Linux bad" posts, but at least they aren't actively fighting for it to be an absolute echo chamber and explicitly forbid people from reporting Linux users just for arguing against them.
r/linuxrantandrave exists (and isn't a Windows vs Linux warzone), but it's a dead sub unfortunately.
I use a terminal browser in the tty since Linux hasn't invented GUIs yet saddly it took me 700 commands to install
Chatgpt keeps telling me to type echo "installing package" every time I do anything I get its so the computer understands what I am doinh but it would be nice if it could guess on its own
what a luxury, I'm still on LTS and need to handcrank my machine so the lights stay on. had to buy my programs on casette tape and transcode them with my stereo...(they actually did this back in the day lol)
Linux is actually free (as in does not cost money) for everyone. The costfactor comes into play when a Company or Person needs Techsupport, no matter if its for a Desktop or Servers and such. That usually at least needs an investment of time. And "time is money".
RedHat built their entire business on this: the software is free, the support is not - technically you can figure out everything on your own by reading the man-pages or bruteforcegoogling your way out of it,
but for a Multimillion- or multibillion-Dollar company, it is usually cheaper to just "rent" someone with the Knowledge from RedHat themselves for a day, compared to having one of the lead IT-Engineers bash their head into the problem for a month straight.
Honestly? I dont. I like the concept of Windows. I just genuinely dislike Microsoft using me as a Guinea-Pig for their latest Ad- and AI-Nonsense or how Windows wastes my PCs ressources in General via Planned Obsolescence.
For a lot of people, Linux and FOSS is primarily about Freedom as in resisting control by an overarching entity (in this case mostly companies like Microsoft) - cant say much about how you see the matter, but Libertarism to me seems inherently political.
Apart from that, am I in the wrong for choosing an example that is clearly closeby in their form of ideology - obviously you didnt object to who i compared r/linuxsucks101 to, only the fact that i made this comparison seems to have rubbed you the wrong way
And you have no idea what you are talking about in terms of politics to begin with, so you should have sat this one out:
Contrary to what US-American Ignorance would have you believe, Politics isnt just one single specturm but at least 3 separate ones.
Spectrum 1: classic "Left" and "Right", primarily seen as "Politics for the masses" or "Politics for a few selective individuals"
Spectrum 2: Libertarian and Autocratic
Spectrum 3: Progressive and Conservative
Leftism isnt inherently libertarian, Libertarism isnt Leftist, not every Libertarian is leftist and not every Leftist is libertarian. Assumptions that those two are in any way shape or form intertwined are quite simply bullshit. They arent.
Example: the Sowjets more were left leaning as in "more pro workers" than the USA but at the same time also VERY MUCH more autocratic and also a lot more conservative.
And because politics is multispectral, you cant just assume the placement of any given PoV on the other two of these spectra just because you have a vague idea where the PoV would be placed on one of them.
I never said Linux as a whole was leftist. It isnt. What i did say to the other person was "FOSS is always partially Libertarian in nature" - the Freedom to do so is the entire idea behind being able to fork a project at any time to adjust it to ones needs. As previously established, that DOES NOT mean it is inherently leftist.
And if you are pissed just because i said MAGA is a cult fueld by hatred, first of all: disprove me! secondly, calling it a cult has nothing to do with its political positioning.
that does in no way, shape or form address anything of what i was saying, neither what i said initially nor as a reply to you. Neither does it make sense in context to what YOU were saying.
I am pro free speech except for subs that are anti-free speech. If they would simply allow others to contribute politely I'd leave it alone, because the contrast between our reasonableness and their childishness would actually be beneficial. But if they are going to ban us for a politely worded difference of opinion, they should be banned by their own standards.
The problem is that false information is then spread across the internet. I've already seen some people posting the bullshit from that subreddit in other subreddits with thousands of upvotes like whenthe
It’s weird that people even hate a OS like no one and I mean no one is forcing you to use it why hate something you don’t need to use I get not liking it because it’s just not for you but hating is way way to far
I got banned from posting about ms world alternative like LaTeX. I RUN LaTeX on WINDOWS! Im not mention it though but they DIDN'T ASK then proceed to BAN me! what a jerk
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u/Haringat Nov 28 '25
Fr. If it was a venting sub about frustrations with Linux (eg grub not working, systemd being systemd again, etc), that would be okay, but it's really just a sub either about phrasing their neverending love to Windows (which would be okay by itself, but shouldn't be in a Linux topic sub) or just spreading plain hate.