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Linux is for penguins.
I had no idea I was a penguin!Linux is for penguins.
Linux is for penguins.
Linux itself is kind of autistic by analogy. It does things its own way because it's a labor of love on the part of its contributors, but precisely because it's unentangled with commercial and world interests, its main drawback is the lack of acceptance. Even though it can do everything, sometimes more efficiently, and more cheaply, it gets snubbed because the lack of acceptance means the software or drivers are not available. Does that sound familiar? You can do everything, you're not a crowd pleaser, but you effectively can't do anything because nobody will accept you?
Linux itself is kind of autistic by analogy. It does things its own way because it's a labor of love on the part of its contributors, but precisely because it's unentangled with commercial and world interests, its main drawback is the lack of acceptance. Even though it can do everything, sometimes more efficiently, and more cheaply, it gets snubbed because the lack of acceptance means the software or drivers are not available. Does that sound familiar? You can do everything, you're not a crowd pleaser, but you effectively can't do anything because nobody will accept you?
I actually don't approve of that gesture on the part of Linus, and it might be among the reasons he wound up taking sensitivity courses, because he realized he's too abrasive sometimes. He flipped off Nvidia because he felt entitled to a fully open-source driver, and I think we would all prefer that, and we think the tradeoff in favor of their IP protection is really poor given that the super-rich can still reverse-engineer binary blobs, and it leaves users without source code. But you don't need to a flip off a company that does provide quality support just because it doesn't do it the particular way you would prefer.Clever analogy. Perhaps why I always enjoy those images of Linus Torvald with his middle finger so prominently displayed, often between the images of Tom Cook and Bill Gates.
Linux users may have only three percent of the marketplace, but even with that low number I still find it thrilling to be a part of. As for my autism, I make no apology for that either.
But continuing that analogy, there's stuff it
I actually don't approve of that gesture on the part of Linus, and it might be among the reasons he wound up taking sensitivity courses, because he realized he's too abrasive sometimes. He flipped off Nvidia because he felt entitled to a fully open-source driver, and I think we would all prefer that, and we think the tradeoff in favor of their IP protection is really poor given that the super-rich can still reverse-engineer binary blobs, and it leaves users without source code. But you don't need to a flip off a company that does provide quality support just because it doesn't do it the particular way you would prefer.
I'm just grateful that there's someone willing to stand up and express their ire in such a public way. It may be uncouth, but it says something important to corporate behemoths like Nvidia, Google, Meta and Microsoft.
Though I also concede that Nvidia seems to be trending more towards the needs of the Linux community than away from it. But it's a slow process.
It's neither flattering nor noble to fight the wrong enemy. There are animals with huge stones and no heart. Ones with horns.
Fighting the real enemies of the Linux Community is presently futile. Compounded by governments which stress a misguided principle (IMO) of the notion of certain entities deemed "too big to fail". The same ones you refer to as having "horns".
Those condoned under a government "umbrella" of sorts, no matter how catastrophic their relations with the public may be. Corporations which continue to regurgitate inferior and invasive operating systems, social media and commercial aircraft.
You can't polish filth.
Have you ever watched Linus in the forums? He's been forced to tone it down a bit in more recent years but he doesn't suffer fools lightly and can shred your average troll in seconds.Neither can you ignore it. Neither does Linus Torvald, in his own way.
I think you're right to a large degree but one of the biggest problems people have is simply a lack of familiarity. The average Windows user has similar problems if they migrate to MacOS. All the programs have funny names and funny icons that they don't recognise.This might be a bit of a controversial thing to say here....
Those are the same types of people who I feel don't actually want Linux to become more popular because they just want to continue to act smug and believe themselves to be superior in comparison to the plebeian masses using Windows.There's also a problem where a lot of people offering guides and advice seem to be more interested in showing off how clever they are than actually helping people and like to give long winded technical explanations for even the simplest of tasks. So the necessary advice gets buried in the depths of confusing and conflicting semantics.