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Every time I see such an argument it means that the person using it probably overestimates their expertise. I tried to switch one time and switched. Knowing nothing.
I was 16 and I wasn't computer-savvy. It was 12 years ago, Linux users on the Web these days love to talk how easier it's become, in my opinion it's become harder, but that's off topic.
Or there may be necessities you can't fulfill with Linux, but that's not what you are claiming.
Give me a specific example. And of the tone of your question too - a community is not a drop-in replacement for paid support obviously, so if there was something of the "I need" kind, possibly with that "it's the OS' problem and not my hands" opinion in the package, those comments would be justified.
This is the exact arrogance I speak of.
If installing linux was just a 'skill issue', then why the fuck are you happy about only 4% desktop adoption rates?
And why the fuck is every forum post like this filled with replies like mine about how frustrating it is to get setup?
Shit son, I have still functioning keyboards older than you.
Ok, so I was trying to get a TWAIN emulator working to talk to my all-in-one printer, printing worked fine (after 3 days of tinkering with CUPS because my specific model didn't have an existing profile and fuck if I know about how to write one myself) but I needed the scanner and I asked in the forum for the particular emulator, I asked in several generic Ubuntu forums (the distro I was trying at the time).
The first reply was a just a link to the product's manual, which I had already read.
The next two replies were in the vein of 'How stupid of you to try and use TWAIN under linux, use a native device driver (again of which none existed for my device, which was clearly detailed in my original post)
The fourth reply can best be summed up as 'lol windows problems'.
And then the post was locked as a repeat topic and linked me back to some chucklefuck's 5 year old post about setting up a scanner with native linux drivers.
That is just one example of multiple dozens of issues I've tried at least to get directions towards a solution.
And not even the most frustrating one.
Because it's an uphill battle against monopolies. PCs mostly come with Windows preinstalled. Users mostly use the OS preinstalled. Considering that, 4% rate means that it's more usable than MacOS. Just repeating known truths.
Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes people expect something reality doesn't deliver.
Yellow card for ageism, ha-ha.
Oh, so a piece of hardware the vendor of which didn't care about Linux support. How is this an OS problem?
I obviously had that too, but I don't get why'd you be pissed at Linux and its community if it's a device driver problem.
OK, so that community we are talking about sometimes hallucinates when it comes to problems unsolvable. I had that with Windows too.
In your example the problem is with the vendor of the device.
Blah blah blah the same argument.
If you had a better product than Windows, for free, everyone would use it. You don't, and you blame everyone except yourselves.
Oh man am I having my first 'these fucking kids' moments? I think I am.
Because if I can't use my tools with one OS, but I can with another, then the problem is with the OS that I cannot. Scanners are common peripherals my dude. Do you think windows would have sold if it didn't support scanners?
I'm pissed at the linux community because their answers were antagonistic, elitist, and useless. You asked for one example, I gave you one example yet the community has responded in the same way each time.
Keep thinking that way and waiting for all vendors to start distributing their own linux drivers, see how far you get.
Yes, the same correct argument.
I've already guessed you think that, only you don't give any arguments supporting your opinion.
You've yourself said there's no official driver, so the entirety of the described problem is with the hardware vendor.
Windows doesn't even support browsers, because nobody ported Vimb to it, yet it sells.
That's how your opinion looks, some piece of hardware without a Linux driver (drivers for Windows are, of course, made by hardware vendors) not working is somehow Linux' fault.
I agree it's a Linux problem, but it's vendor's fault. Like if someone drops a turd on your head, it's their fault and your problem.
That last sentence made me laugh out loud and it's spot on. The amount of reverse engineering or getting drivers to work anyway that happens on Linux is already mind boggling.
If the vendor doesn't care, that's just what it is.
No it isn't, I refuted it in my next sentence.
I don't need to, simple market forces make that clear. If you have a free product that is easily available that outcompetes paid products, the market will shift to the free product. If it does not then it isn't outcompeting the competition.
Why would you pay for McDonald's if Smashburger was free?
How naive. Linux is the unsupported underdog here, and will not get more adoption by whining that vendors aren't making drivers for it. The only answer is to roll your own. I explicitly stated that this lack of hardware support is one of the things holding back linux from greater adoption, do you disagree with this? If you agree, then you know drivers must be written. If the manufacturer has no interest in doing it, then who will?
Are you fucking high? I really don't even know how to respond to this. I'm starting to think you are just copy pasting ChatGPT output.
Whining isn't going to raise your ridiculous OS's adoption rating, bro.
You have denied it, not refuted it.
You don't know shit about market forces either, and I'm ancap, LOL.
If a ride to get Smashburger costs more in time and money than McDonalds. Or if I have certain health problems and there's no diet Smashburger, but there's something in McDonalds. Or many other examples.
The first example looks especially fitting if, say, McDonalds got the building with some special municipal permission and Smashburger couldn't just buy something in similarly available place.
You if you need it. Nobody's going to do what you need for you. Adoption is not the only or the primary goal.
You can respond with thanking me on your knees for taking time to explain how you look and not asking if you are fucking high.
I'm not selling anything to you, bro.
Wow, you may want to take a class in rhetoric.
Wrong on the first part, and doesn't matter on the second. Market forces exist regardless of your economic religion.
OOOH YOU ARE SO FUCKING CLOSE! Not that you will ever admit it.
Now apply that to the time and energy that goes into standing up a linux desktop vs windows.
Then I won't be using linux now will I? AND HERE YOU SEE WHERE ELITISM GETS YOUR RIDICULOUS EXCUSE FOR AN OS.
Imagine if you got a phone, but before you could use the soft keyboard you had to write your own driver for it. HOW WELL DO YOU THINK THAT PHONE WOULD SELL?! How do you think people would treat it even if they got it for free?
Elitist shitbag proving my point at the speed of light.
Literally nothing you have written is meaningful or useful, I hereby banish you from my internet forever.