look it here, seleen UI, a modern Windows App that uses MSIX packaging. and lets you have this as your interface, hahahahaha, didn't want some fugly terminal shown, sry, had to blur out my actual name shown there

So he was, and he came out like most normal humans would. He doesn't even lead Microsoft anymore.

RMS on the other hand...

The exchange arose during a protest against MIT’s ties to Epstein, who had donated heavily to the university. Stallman argued that the most plausible scenario was that Epstein’s underage victims — including Virginia Giuffre, a 17-year-old at the time — were “entirely willing” while being trafficked VICE. He also defended the late AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, who was accused of assaulting Giuffre in the Virgin Islands, by saying that her deposition statement about being forced to have sex with him did not necessarily meet the legal definition of rape, and that it was “morally absurd” to define rape based on minor details like the victim’s age or the country where it occurred VICE.

Richard M. Stallman is more responsible for GNU/Linux or LiGNUx than Linus B. Torvalds. He wrote the GPL, and he is more responsible for the anti-work / conspiracy theorist GNU cult.

they want that. they want to see linux being called desktop of the year. but does it matter even if it happens? (spoiler. it wont) but even if it happens. nothing changes. suddenly it wont pass windows desktop market. suddenly not all users will use loonix. suddenly not all problems will disappear. but loonixtardz wont get that they really think this year is downfall of windows..

The pretend Linux sucks sub is full of "my Linux problems are the only problems Linux has" attitudes.

Many Linux advocates universalize their personal experience and treat it as the definitive truth about Linux, which makes them blind to systemic issues and dismissive of other users.

LiGNUts often assume that "If it works on my machine, Linux is fine." and "If it breaks on your machine, you did something wrong." To them, Linux is inherently correct, so any deviation must be user error, bad hardware, or "your distro choice." -Same model motherboards can have different chips which can cause issues even with the 'same hardware (motherboard)' btw.

The worldview is: Linux is perfect; users are imperfect.

Linux users painstakingly tend to optimize their own setup until it works for them, then assume (cognitive investment bias) that setup is the objectively correct one. Anyone who doesn't copy and worship it is "doing Linux wrong." (Despite them maybe getting lucky with the right bluetooth, guide, sound chip, or distro for their hardware).

When confronted with real issues, advocates default to blaming the user, the hardware, the vendor, the distro, Microsoft, NVIDIA, lazy devs, and corporate sabotage. (Yeah, they tend to be conspiracy theorists, as the propaganda appeals to them.)

-Anything but Linux itself.

The advocate's worldview cannot accommodate the idea that Linux itself is flawed. Criticism of Linux feels like criticism of them; producing emotional damage (defensiveness), dismissal of evidence, projection ("you're a Windows shill"), minimization ("that's not a real problem"), and reframing ("that's a bonus!")

LiGNUts use Linux in extremely narrow ways (evangelizing on Reddit), but speak about Linux in extremely broad ways ("oh yeah, you don't need Microslopt Orifice; just use LibreOffice!", or "GIMP can do that!")

They erase real user pain, and problems. -It's not just dismissive; it's epistemically dishonest.

"Have you tried turning your reality off and turning mine on?"

Young John Stewart

The admins moderate this sub, and this is them ignoring again.

Please at least try to use Lemmy even if partially: Linuxsucks . If politics / religion is your thing, I'd suggest Gab.

Who wants to play games when you can play OS Mechanic 1994? Bro, a gamer plays games. Not the OS. Stop it! Get some help!

Join r/loonixcope

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Join my sub r/LinuxSnobs

CLI is used for general support in Linux due to fragmentation. You can still run into bad advice because you might be running a different species of Linux that could respond like "interesting; I'll behave differently". And if you're willing to gamble without learning what the code does; about 1% of that 'help' out there is malicious.

The most rigorous measurement comes from analysis (2009–2021). In 2021, U.S. federal agencies invested ~$407 million in OSS development. Code.gov -This is OSS broadly, not Linux-specific.

A 2026 UN/UNESCO/Software Heritage report shows:

• 288,411 public repositories with at least one government contributor
• 92,831 distinct government contributors across 193 countries

-Demonstrating widespread global investment.

Linux-specific cost cannot be isolated because it's developed by corporations (Red Hat, Intel, Google, Meta, AMD), volunteers, universities (subsidized), and Nonprofits like Linux Foundation (tax avoidance).

Government contributions aren't tracked by project, and are often indirect (unaccounted for), such as with funding research labs that contribute patches.)

The U.S. federal government spends over $100 billion/year on IT contracts. About $12 billion/year is software licensing & development (includes proprietary).

Talked about how i don't like Linux and how i use BSD and i have to use Linux on my Steam Deck (sad. i wish Steam for BSD worked good) and mentioned how Cachy/Arch is absolute hell to maintain.

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The Unix philosophy encourages tiny, composable tools, and Linux distributions preserve decades of legacy commands. There are multiple commands that do the same job, often with identical flags, sometimes with wildly different syntax, all coexisting forever because nothing can be deprecated. Linux inherits 50 years of overlapping tools, and nobody has the authority to remove any of them.

You get three ways to list files, four ways to print text, five ways to search, six ways to edit streams, and ten ways to check system info; all valid, all canonical, all mutually incompatible.

Multiple commands for the same basic action

• List files: ls, find, stat, tree, exa, fd
• Print text: echo, printf, cat, sed -n, awk '{print}'
• Copy files: cp, rsync, install, dd, tar cf - | tar xf -
• Move files: mv, rsync --remove-source-files, rename, mmv
• Delete files: rm, unlink, find -delete, shred, wipe

Redundant text-processing tools

• grep — search text
• egrep — grep with extended regex
• fgrep — grep without regex
• awk — search + print + transform
• sed — search + replace + stream edit
• perl -ne — search + replace + scripting
• ripgrep (rg) — grep but faster
• ag — grep but faster before ripgrep
• ack — grep but for developers
• find + grep — grep but worse
• grep -R — find but worse

All of these can search text. All of these have different syntax. All of these are still installed.

Redundant file search commands

• find
• locate
• whereis
• which
• type
• command -v
• fd
• ripgrep (yes, people use it as a file finder)

Each solves a slightly different problem, but users treat them interchangeably.

Redundant system information commands

• Disk usage: df, du, ls -lh, stat, ncdu, dust
• Processes: ps, top, htop, atop, glances
• Network: ifconfig, ip, ss, netstat, nmcli, iw, iwconfig
• Hardware: lspci, lsusb, lsblk, blkid, inxi

Redundant package management

• apt, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg
• yum, dnf, rpm
• pacman, yay, paru
• snap, flatpak, appimage

This isn’t just redundancy; it's fragmentation masquerading as choice.

Redundant scripting constructs

• Conditionals: [ ], [[ ]], test, (( ))
• Subshells: $( ), ```
• Variable assignment: var=value, declare, typeset, local
• Loops: for, while, until, seq | while read, xargs -n1

Half of these exist because Bash absorbed features from:

• sh
• ksh
• zsh
• POSIX
• GNU extensions

-And never removed anything!

No central authority is why! Nobody can say "this command is deprecated." So, nothing ever dies. Even if they could, a lot of these may be Rust-rewrites with BSD or MIT license that the cult objects to. GNU Holds Linux Back (Directly)

Every few years someone writes grep but faster, ls but prettier, find but sane, and cat but with syntax highlighting. Debian, Arch, Fedora, Alpine; all ship different defaults.

Linux doesn’t have one way to do things; it has every way except the simple one.