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    401 month ago

    Why is this thread getting flooded with people saying how they can’t use Linux? Isn’t that a little odd coming from a Linux community?

    • @[email protected]
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      411 month ago

      Because on lemmy a post getting 100 up votes is enough to end up somewhere high on all, so your seeing people from outside of the Linux community in here.

      • Sixty
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        91 month ago

        That’s why I’m here, front page.

      • Coriza
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        31 month ago

        I would say “people don’t see the community a post is in before commenting?” But of course they don’t. :'(

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          People outside of the community are allowed to have a different experience than those within it.

          • Coriza
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            21 month ago

            Of course, but sometimes communities have a specific context that is important to be aware of. Just to give an extreme examples: Communities like unpopular opinion, that you should upvote if you do not agree with that opinion. Or circle jerks communities that the point is to be tongue and cheek about the particular subject. Or the nosleep community that, if am not mistaken the name, everyone has to interact with the post in character as if it was real.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 month ago

              The title of this post is “I Don’t See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025”, surely that invites discussion?

              • Coriza
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                21 month ago

                I read the combo before my original reply as “there is a bunch of people with no interest in Linux or that just hates Linux coming to a Linux community just to say that Linux sucks”. I feel like that if it was a more general technology sub it is fair, but in a Linux community is more weird, like people interested in Linux will discuss its shortcomings in a more positive way not just being dismissive. But I may be interpreting things wrong.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 month ago

      Because people are mad any time someone suggests they could change anything about themselves. It’s pretty sad.

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      1 month ago

      Hiya, intending to switch from Windows to Linux (it looks like I’ll finally be pulling the proverbial trigger this holiday season!) but I got here via Local sorted by Active on programming.dev. I am not subbed to Linux.

      In other words, people outside the target audience are getting exposed to this post.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      I don’t see why. You can be interested in Linux and like some aspects of it but still get annoyed at the blinkered zealots claiming that there’s no reason to use Windows.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          Definitely true for a minority. Not the way most of these articles are presented though (including this one).

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        I never had a reason to use Windows outside of job requirements. If I bothered I could find a job without such requierements.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Lemmy is weird and this showed up on my ‘all’ page yesterday and again today. So that’s where you’re probably getting those comments (and mine!)

      But I’ve been using Linux servers long enough and switching to Linux for my workstation once i finish getting parts for a new build