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TechConnectify@mas.to - Oh my gosh I just figured it out.

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people who are talking about a problem with whatever commercial software they use and suggest Your Favorite Alternatives™ is exactly like saying "why don't you just buy a house?" to someone complaining about their landlord.

TechConnectify@mas.to - Actually, to borrow from @DoubleA, it's worse than that.

It's like talking to someone who is in a crappy apartment as though they have the agency and skills to stake out a plot of land and build their own home.

You have to be at peace with the fact that some people just want to exist and not worry about so many things. And they still have a right to complain about their situation.

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[–] bou@kbin.social 53 points 11 months ago (27 children)

@morrowind funny to find this here when I wrote my reply just a while ago:

"It's like talking to someone who is in a crappy apartment as though they have the agency and skills to stake out a plot of land and build their own home."

Maybe if you're suggesting them to install Linux From Scratch, then yes, it is.

If you're suggesting them them to install any of the many very simple (and very usable OOTB) distros like Fedora, then it's not.

In that case it's like the house is free, already built and furnitured, and right next to their own; but they have to move their personal belongings from one house to the other and learn a different room layout.

Sure, they still have the right to complain about how their landlord treats them like crap. But they sound pretty damn stupid if they do so while having an available free house right next door, and refusing to move because they don't want to learn a new room layout.

[–] Tathas@programming.dev 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Well. And maybe the new house doesn't support their bed.

[–] LapGoat@pawb.social 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i mean yeah but they can just dual boot to metaphorically keep the old house too

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

sleeping and living in different houses, with your original house able to "accidentally" blow up your new one at any point.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or you can just keep your old house where everything works, and the only annoying thing is the landlord.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just gotta figure out if you're ok with your landlord reading your diary.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

Most people are completely fine with it.

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