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Except the specific distro you use impacts your choices and the future direction and success of Linux as a whole.
If you pick the single enshittified distro then you serve to perpetuate it's influence.
This silly infighting serves to perpetuate people staying on windows or mac os
I agree but the extent of my "silly infighting" is "don't use Ubuntu". If they stay on Windows instead of Ubuntu, everyone is probably better off.
I don't see who would be better off in that scenario, except microsoft, and I feel they're worse for their users and the world than ubuntu
If you have a problem with any particular system, express it in a way that doesn't denigrate its users. Some people prefer it. Some don't have a choice.
And NEVER call anyone brain-damaged for any reason.
You don't get to speculate about that. Now drop it.
"But they did it too!" will not fly with me as a valid defense coming from an adult person. Your behaviour is your own responsibility. If you disagree with something, either respond in a polite manner or downvote and move on. Do not accuse others, either individuals or groups, of having a mental deficiency, brain damage, or aberration; and the fact that you would try to minimize what you said shows that you understand why I have an issue with it.
Be nice, or leave.
You don't think some people who consider trying linux make a web search or ask a question somewhere only to get turned off by people immediately arguing about distros and calling them brain damaged?
Right now it's ubuntu that's the meme target, but there's always something like this. If everyone stopped using ubuntu tomorrow, the people who somehow get their self esteem from having a better distro will find something else to fuel that. They will never be happy
I'm happy if people use linux. I'm even happy if they use WSL or homebrew rather than plain windows or os x as it's a gateway drug, even though having windows in particular as a base system seems needlessly painful
See, this is the type of uselessly disparaging dialogue that people take issue with. Why on earth did you think that this is an OK thing to say?
it does
That's not the only reason, and it's not the biggest reason. People pay $200 to get windows on a new computer because they're never been exposed to anything else.
This comment says a lot about your opinion, especially why no one cares about it.
people continue to use ___________ because itβs already installed.
Let them use whatever in the hell they want. It gets them exposure that there's life without Windows/Mac. You can hate ubuntu without gatekeeping people.