Its one guy(whos the mod) posting a bunch of stupid shit there. A bunch of the posts are just "i compared you to a minority group so i win the argument". Some of the "memes" are so badly made that it actually shows you problems with windows more than linux.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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I’ve seen the same thing. I remember thinking to myself a couple of times, “This isn’t the dunk you think it is.”
There’s clearly a fundamental misunderstanding there about how Linux development happens when the majority of the terrible memes treat the thousands of open source projects that go into the myriad of different distributions as a single monolithic effort run by some central authority. Or that there’s some coordinated effort to obscure the truth about switching from Windows because evangelizing the gospel of Linux is more important than everything else. And that’s beside the fact that so many of the memes aren’t even grounded in fact or are just badly outdated.
I’ve never bothered to interact with anyone there, and everyone is entitled to an opinion, but I legitimately think that there are issues at play here that go beyond mere preferences in operating systems. I won’t antagonize the situation because of that.
So that meme reminds me of a prank.
There was once I had the same exact laptop as a buddy, but wasn't using it anymore. He was finishing his degree and just about to turn in like 8 papers/assignments and had a ton of work saved on it. So I wiped my laptop and installed fresh Kubuntu, and then swapped the drives when he wasn't looking. Then I pretended to have done him a favor since he had been having intermittent windows problems.
He was livid but was trying so hard to be kind, loool. Made it better when I could swap it right back and everything was there
That prank is so mischievous.
It was so good because I could be as rotten as I wanted, there was zero lasting harm. He immediately forgave me and found it amazing once he booted up the original drive and made sure it was all good
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Lazy stereotyping and wojaks, man that is a bottom tier "community".
I just realized that I've already blocked both of the mods at some point in the past. The community looks really dead without their posts.
I looked at some posts of them. They posted a meme about how Linux users don't shut the fuck up about Linux, while running this community.... Lol.
As a Linux user, we might be a little too passionate.
It's easy to be passionate when you aren't killing your soul with Windows.
we might be a little too passionate
We have to offset the complacency and downright apathy of Windows users, and the tribal/cult mentality of Apple consumers.
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In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System
efivars are made read only by the kernel. That firmware bug (!) was worked around in the kernel years ago.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst
Specifically in 2016: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879
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Quick glance AFat that place and wow. Talk about people completely and utterly missing the point
Yeah, I know I can be annoying when I tell people for the 100th time that they should install Linux, but I wouldn't have to say that if they didn't get their computer hacked / full of viruses / full with Microsoft bloat and spyware they want removed and come to me to fix that shit on each of those occasions.
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Hilarious lmao
I’m not even all the way switched over and I got my only comment deleted. I apparently broke the rule about only being allowed to hate.
Work switched from windows 10 to 11. Think im the only person who read all the terms and conditions before upgrading thier work machine. If you can honsetly agree to all of that, then go for it.
One of the reasons I dont like local moderators being perpetually in charge of some communities. We should have a way to vote out unwanted mods. Or at least have term limits.
This entire conversation is solving a problem that's already been mostly solved.
If you don't like an existing community, whether because of the mods or whatever, you just create a new one. This was common on Reddit (e.g. GameOfThrones vs FreeFolk vs ASOIAF), and extends further. If you don't like !Linux@lemmy.world, you can create !Linux@lemmy.ml, @programming.dev, @lemm.ee, or hundreds of others.
The community will respond accordingly. If you run a better ship, people will find it and respond accordingly. The only real hurdle is fighting inertia. The mods of the existing community will probably not take kindly to anyone mentioning any alternatives.
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They forgot sudo. Also, why not throw in a -v flag to see your dreams die in real time!
When I first messed with Linux circa 1997, I had just installed it and learned how to edit fstab to mount my windows drive automatically.
I couldn't figure out how to start X, though, so I booted into windows and asked in EFnet #linux.
The advice I was given was 'rm -rf /'.
I hadn't yet learned about non-privileged accounts.
The correct command was 'startx'.
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Who did this? The mods themselves? I mean they're entitled to do whatever they like in their community... within instance rules... Or is this some intervention by someone else?
Only the mod posts there anyway. Locking the community is a mod power.
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