then what about windows users punching themselves in face with trackers and ads WHILE PAYING
Linux: i punch myself in the face because it’s free
Windows: i pay this guy to punch me in the face, but he sometimes decides to punch me in the nuts, and also tries to sell me stuff
I don’t like it. He is just perpetuating the endless stereotypes that plague linux and harm linux adoption.
If you are using a somewhat stable distro and don’t have weird hardware, you don’t need to “write your own driver” etc. A lot more people “punch themselves in the face” by using a buggy, ad infested, data harvesting operating system even though they just need a web browser.
It’s legitimately staggering to me how much easier to maintain Linux is for the average use case than Windows. No messing with drivers; has preinstalled what’s essentially a GUI app store to manage literally all of my applications; updates that don’t require a restart; no bullshit with licensure; a trivial install process with zero dark patterns; no malware; and I could just keep going. Linux has faults with the UX, but having switched to it from Windows about a year ago, it’s extremely evident why this stereotype is perpetuated in spite of Linux being the sort of OS I would recommend to my grandma over Windows: nose blindness.
When Linux genuinely improves the ease of use over Windows, Windows users don’t even recognize it as a problem. Like imagine if the roles were reversed where on Windows I could just click a button, type in my password, and update every single one of my applications at once, but on Linux, I had to individually open any given app and check for updates manually. Windows users would rightfully be bemoaning that as too complicated for a lot of users and bitching about how tedious it is to maintain (in the case of Windows, updating is a bizarre patchwork whose difficulty depends on the application’s developers). But since it’s a problem they’ve become nose blind to, when Linux actually fixes this obviously ridiculous issue Windows has, it’s seen as “not a big deal anyway”.
Using windows is very much like paying some to chop off your genitals piece by piece with just a rusty hammer. They come up with a better hammer ⚒️🔨 each year but it turns out to be the same old hammer with a different coat of paint. Others look at you and tell you “why do you pay for Microsoft to hit you in your genitals?” And you say "the new Windows 11 hammer handle comes with vibrating isolation features second to non! You can’t even hear it l!
Wholeheartedly agree. But the alternative is like a neck massage with a chainsaw, by a trained torturer. It costs money.
all while they clockwork orange your eyes and show you nothing but ads
I feel like a torturer wants to spread the pain over time, so he’s there using a Bosch mini chainsaw, slowly carving flesh away.
Man, the lack of a sense of humor in this thread is palpable. Can cut the harrumph with a knife.
When the same belittling joke is retold thousands of times, it tends to lose its edge for all but a few people.
Lol it’s acually funny
If you tell this joke in a linux community, its funny. If you tell it to someone who doesnt know what linux is, its not
This would probably be funnier if it made any sense
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