I'm curious if you think statements like this really help paint the Linux Desktop community in a good light. Because honestly as much as I don't like a lot of things about how Linux Desktop works the community is also a significant factor in driving me away.

The Linux community is incredibly diverse, some are nice and helpful, some are assholes, some just want to be left alone to do their work.

Generalizing the whole community from reading some forum posts is pretty unfair.

Kinda. I mean, yeah I shouldn't judge every Linux Desktop user by assholes, but it doesn't take very many asshole Linux Desktop evangelists to make somebody not want to deal with the Linux Desktop community because of the likelihood of running into an evangelical asshole.

It's like how women gamers talk about having to deal with misogynist assholes online. Sure, there aren't that many misogynists really, percentage wise, but there's plenty enough to make running in to one a near certainty.

I think it's odd that you think you can make comments like these repeatedly as if you're brand new and as if you don't appear everytime Linux is discussed anywhere on this site to rehash your same opinions over and over again.

It's like running into you is a near certainty.

Dude, I was complaining about Windows in this thread, offhandedly mention I didn't like MacOS or Linux either, and some fucking childish evangelist crawls out of the woodwork to liken me to a domestic abuse victim.

True

Filing bug reports is a exercise in getting abused.

I installed a clean install on a Raspberry PI, installed emcas (which I have used for about thirty years), and found a utility did not work (I will conceal the guilty - it is a common story)

I filed a bug report, and was abused because I was using a emacs distribution that was three years old - how could I possibly think that any problems I saw be anything but my fault , and didn't I have better things to do than waste their time with my idiot ramblings.

What sort of silly child acts like that? What a crock!

Some parts of the Free Software community are much better. (Rust, for example, nothing but respect for my idiot ramblings). But some parts are still full of the "bigger dick" egomaniacs....

Who "acts like that"? Maybe somebody unpaid and abused over a bug maybe already fixed, years ago.

What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you.

If you just want somebody whose job is to listen to you complain, there are companies that will sell you a contract for that.

> Who "acts like that"?

Large enough portions of the FOSS community that plenty of us can relate.

> What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you.

Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you.

>Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you.

Doing a quick search to see if the bug you are reporting has been reported before is a requirement on pretty much every single one of them though

Still not an excuse for being a dick to the person reporting it.

This is one of my pet peeves with the FOSS community: they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software, but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.

>they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software

They are.

>but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.

Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser to access an open source web server through a lot of piping that is modern networking, with open source parts inside and out.

You don't think likening someone's choice of non-ideal OS over your preferred one to domestic abuse might just be a little bit, I don't know, childish?

I mean, why do you care enough about what OS I choose to even bother insulting me anyway?

You were the one complaining, just as if any of us should care. You are a nuisance. I encourage you to go complain somewhere else, far, far away.

I was complaining about Windows, but apparently my offhand comment that I also didn't like Linux set you off and the rest of this thread resulted.

It's pretty clear here who was "set off".