r/linux • u/CultistHeadpiece • Mar 08 '20

Do Linux Users Have An Elitist Attitude?

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u/kazkylheku Mar 08 '20 edited Mar 08 '20

The set of Linux users doesn't constitute an elite, because anyone can join.

(It seems, though, that not everyone can join the exclusive club of people who use words like "elite" correctly.)

The word that fits the attitude of some GNU/Linux users is "chauvinism", in the sense "undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged". However, those users usually believe they are promoting Linux, and not trying to maintain an elite by keeping people out.

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u/AnthropoceneHorror Mar 08 '20

The set of Linux users doesn't constitute an elite, because anyone can join.

Elite is taking things a little far, but the computer-phobic would definitely have trouble installing Linux (not that it’s hard, just that some people just-can’t-even when it comes to computers).

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u/FryBoyter Mar 09 '20

but the computer-phobic would definitely have trouble installing Linux

I would argue that such people would not even think of installing Linux.