Saw a post without noticing the community and commented a genuine comment with good intentions.

Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

Original post:

My (removed) comment:

And yeah, the last comment was sarcasm.

I just don’t really understand why is there a community for shitting on Linux? Like I can get not liking it, and hating the Linux die hard fans, but it really is an amazing thing that is integral to almost all modern computing… Kind of like hating social media by having a facebook page for it.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    71·
    2 days ago

    When I was on reddit the ones spouting the most linux hate seemed to fall into two main categories.

    1. those that tried it like 15 years ago and still hold a grudge.

    2. dudes who heard people rave about linux but they themselves struggled with certain concepts when trying it out. And rather than realize they need to read instructions and learn new things, instead would rather blame linux for not working as expected.

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 days ago

    Unrelated but I got banned from the atheist memes community for calling one of the mods memes a boomer Facebook meme.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    2 days ago

    Yeah, that guy’s not joking.

    It’s not some kayfabe act. He is sincere in all of that posturing assholery.

    Block and move on.

  • Breve@pawb.social
    821·
    3 days ago

    It’s not a “community”, it’s one person making all the posts because I guess they wanted to make hating Linux their entire personality. 🤷

      • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        101·
        2 days ago

        I’d argue dedicating your personality to hating something is much weirder than being a fanboy of it, especially when that thing is a piece of technology nobody is forcing you to use.

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
        31·
        2 days ago

        I don’t see irony there. I think calling this FOSS community ‘filled with Linux-crazed people’ is a stretch, but even then, it’s very different to:

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        or even just hating a niche product whatsoever. It’s not like Linux is EEE’ing or being invasive, so it’s hard to equivocate being a passionate fan to being a passionate hater.

  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    3 days ago

    That whole community is just one guy posting memes. Some are funny but mostly its just odd how much he hates Linux.

    Whatever :)

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    45·
    3 days ago

    There was a time when there was an annual “Linux Sucks” presentation that I liked because it was a roundup of candid, yet constructive criticism of Linux (and then at some point the person running that went off the deep end and started yelling about woke agendas).

    I wouldn’t mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken when running linux, and we as a community then try to fix them or find workarounds.

    But as others have pointed out, that community isn’t a community, it’s literally just one account hanging out by themselves.

    • drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      I wouldn’t mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken

      But isn’t that every linux forum?

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
        11·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, but I think it can feel too much like a circle jerk around here sometimes. I get that people want to win over new users, but some of it goes too far I think. The fact is Linux isn’t perfect, and while no OS is, there are some critical things you can do on Windows that are still a pain in the ass on Linux. Some of that is a vendor/proprietary software problem, but a good chunk of it is just people being willing to overlook a thin layer of jank in their normal workflows.

        I think we’d all be better off to all acknowledge and clean up the jank rather than try to pretend it’s fine as is.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          61·
          2 days ago

          To be fair, Windows has its own jank. As someone who is forced to use Windows 11 for work, I’m much happier putting up with the minimum Linux jank I’ve experienced compared to the Windows jank.

          If any of that made sense.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 days ago

      There is a guy that is a Linux dev, that maintains* a list of what sucks about linux, its very comprehensive–but a bit dated. He alao has same for Windows. I will have to look for the link

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
    301·
    3 days ago

    Hummm… Guess you’re to sensible? I mean I’m die hard linux lover for 3 years now and will never switch back to Windows… EVER!

    However, I found some of those posts quite funny !

  • electricprism@lemmy.ml
    15·
    3 days ago

    For this exact reason i feel the fediverse should operate on #hashtags and the user should subscribe to their mods who will mark content for exclusion and filtration.

    Meaning that instead of a ultimatum users can participate regardless of if bad mods ruin a community as per reddit /r/linux being ruined by loco mods.

    This fiefdom format where topics are arbitrated and drum headded by fief lords is archaic and antiquated.

    When the wrong man uses the right means, then the right means work in the wrong way.

    Its our job to create systems that prevent this as much as possible through good design.

    • WilfordGrimley@linux.communityEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      That’s how aether works kind of.

      It’s P2P/decentralised rather than federated.

      Anyone can make a community. With enough participation in a community one can become a mod. Mods can be impeached by vote of active participants.

      Anyone can see nod actions and anyone can decide to disable the actions of any mod.

      I love the system, I was active there before moving to Lemmy. I wish it had taken off/absorbed some of the Reddit fallout rather than Lemmy.

      AFAIK it is not maintained or at least updated much less frequently than Lemmy/ActivityPub.

  • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    people who are new should be using immutable distros exclusively unless they’re looking at this as a major project where they learn everything about it, IMHO

    i’ve been helping people switch for a long time, all the dumbest things that have happened to people have been stopped by immutability.

    • StanislavP@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      I just switched from Windows to Linux recently. Have gone from Zorin to Linux Mint and my friend likes Ubuntu. I would like to think that I watched a lot of videos and read a lot of articles before switching, but I’ve never heard of immutable distros. Could you please explain that term?

      Edit: Grammar.

      • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        Yes, the short version is that immutability means that the filesystem (except for your home folder) is read-only and updated all at once.

        This makes it so that updates never break the machine, and you can roll back to previous versions of the machine all at once, seamlessly.

        For new people I always recommend fedora kinoite, but if you’re highly experienced, immutability provides little value as you can always just chroot and unbreak the system yourself.

    • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 days ago

      Yeah… I am in my Arch comfort zone, till I was forced to move on as the newest kernels of Arch triggered kernel Panics at my Starlite V device. Even the LTS version (and for some weird reason the rt kernel was the only one working without panics).

      So someone said “Use NixOS, its great”… it felt cool at beginning, but sucked very soon as everything should be written into stone if you want changes on your system, and then reboot, because the switch command didn’t really trigger enough changes. Netbeans was without Maven till I rebooted. I thought I sucked at adding it properly. Frustrating it was.

      Then I tried MX Linux, just to realize that Debian has Ancient packages with many many bugs, like Okular having a broken Pinch-Zoom which is fixed after 23.31 or smth. Debian had version 22 of Okular. And I disliked that MX Linux used Plasma 5…

      Another one recommends Void Linux, Gentoo, KDE Neon, OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Holy fuck pls filter it by Systemd only Operating Systems. (But still cool having lots od Linux users in my university group)

      I finally decided to Install Kubuntu and actually… it feels like it will last forever (till a new Ubuntu Update comes in and destroys itself by its own Updating system. It never worked for me)

      • hangonasecond@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Gentoo has systemd instructions right alongside openrc through the whole installation handbook. Pretty sure opensuse is systemd also.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
    43·
    3 days ago

    Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

    Sounds like they’ve done you a favour. Now you don’t have to see their random hater circlejerk community again.

  • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    I don’t understand why so many people take the existence of linuxsucks communities so personally, the reddit version has more linux users defending it than actual hate, but that one was more meant as a “legitimate grievances against linux” community as opposed to what the lemmy version seems to be.

    Just block and ignore like anything else. Its okay if there are people that don’t like the thing you like.