this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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Why is this thread getting flooded with people saying how they can't use Linux? Isn't that a little odd coming from a Linux community?
I don't see why. You can be interested in Linux and like some aspects of it but still get annoyed at the blinkered zealots claiming that there's no reason to use Windows.
I never had a reason to use Windows outside of job requirements. If I bothered I could find a job without such requierements.
There is no reason for some people to use Windows
Because on lemmy a post getting 100 up votes is enough to end up somewhere high on all, so your seeing people from outside of the Linux community in here.
That's why I'm here, front page.
I would say "people don't see the community a post is in before commenting?" But of course they don't. :'(
People outside of the community are allowed to have a different experience than those within it.
Of course, but sometimes communities have a specific context that is important to be aware of. Just to give an extreme examples: Communities like unpopular opinion, that you should upvote if you do not agree with that opinion. Or circle jerks communities that the point is to be tongue and cheek about the particular subject. Or the nosleep community that, if am not mistaken the name, everyone has to interact with the post in character as if it was real.
The title of this post is "I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025", surely that invites discussion?
I read the combo before my original reply as "there is a bunch of people with no interest in Linux or that just hates Linux coming to a Linux community just to say that Linux sucks". I feel like that if it was a more general technology sub it is fair, but in a Linux community is more weird, like people interested in Linux will discuss its shortcomings in a more positive way not just being dismissive. But I may be interpreting things wrong.
Hiya, intending to switch from Windows to Linux (it looks like I'll finally be pulling the proverbial trigger this holiday season!) but I got here via Local sorted by Active on programming.dev. I am not subbed to Linux.
In other words, people outside the target audience are getting exposed to this post.
Because people are mad any time someone suggests they could change anything about themselves. It's pretty sad.
But this is a Linux community
Lemmy is still a small place with a lot of Linux users, so this likely shows up in several people's /all
I understand. I agree with you. Just commenting on how personally people take things and how stubborn they are