TechConnectify@mas.to - Oh my gosh I just figured it out.

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people who are talking about a problem with whatever commercial software they use and suggest Your Favorite Alternatives™ is exactly like saying “why don’t you just buy a house?” to someone complaining about their landlord.

TechConnectify@mas.to - Actually, to borrow from @DoubleA, it’s worse than that.

It’s like talking to someone who is in a crappy apartment as though they have the agency and skills to stake out a plot of land and build their own home.

You have to be at peace with the fact that some people just want to exist and not worry about so many things. And they still have a right to complain about their situation.

Link to thread: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/111539959265152243

  • bou@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @morrowind funny to find this here when I wrote my reply just a while ago:

    “It’s like talking to someone who is in a crappy apartment as though they have the agency and skills to stake out a plot of land and build their own home.”

    Maybe if you’re suggesting them to install Linux From Scratch, then yes, it is.

    If you’re suggesting them them to install any of the many very simple (and very usable OOTB) distros like Fedora, then it’s not.

    In that case it’s like the house is free, already built and furnitured, and right next to their own; but they have to move their personal belongings from one house to the other and learn a different room layout.

    Sure, they still have the right to complain about how their landlord treats them like crap. But they sound pretty damn stupid if they do so while having an available free house right next door, and refusing to move because they don’t want to learn a new room layout.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      How many times have you setup Fedora or any other Linux distribution and have every single thing working from the get go?

      I’m talking drivers, audio, networking, libraries, DNF, repositories, plugins, runtime dependencies, …

      • That house isn’t furnished.

      And don’t forget, plenty of popular software isn’t even compatible. Meaning you got to use alternative software that doesn’t always do what you want it to do.

      • So buy a new couch, cause that one isn’t getting in.
    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s somewhere in between, you’re not building your own software, but oss software does usually tend to need more work. It’s like telling someone with a shitty landlord to move to a new house which they get to own, but it has no paint, or lighting, or flooring and they have to move their furniture and learn a different layout

      • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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        1 year ago

        And If it doesn’t require more work, it requires different work. The beast you know is easier and more comfortable to understand than the beast you don’t know, even if it would be more beneficial to learn to deal with the newcomer.