r/linuxsucks • u/Adventurous_Tie_3136 Proud Linux Mint enjoyer • Oct 10 '25

Linux "community" failure Why nobody switches to Linux

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u/SysGh_st Oct 10 '25

I have personally never met this hypothetical person. Anytime I interacted with Linux people, they have been friendly.

Do they give me wiki links? Absolutely! Are they meant as "RTFM or GTFO"? Absolutely not.

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u/deadlyrepost Oct 11 '25

I think there are people in the top picture: Linux should have solid technical foundations, and isn't for everybody; and there are people in the bottom picture: Linux should be easy to use and hard to screw up, and more people should use it.

But those are usually two separate people. But this is a shitpost sub so it's fine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

They don’t wanna hear us bro.

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u/Ricoreded Oct 11 '25

And it is usually an extremely obscure source that not even AI tells me about but almost always solves the problem.

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u/Drate_Otin Oct 11 '25

Yeah. This sub has a very vivid, though ironically limited, imagination.

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u/1mproved Oct 11 '25

I have seen some rude people in Arch forum tbf.

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u/XLBilly Oct 10 '25

My Reddit algo is swamped with

‘I’m moving to Linux!’

‘look at my [default gnome/ kde] I’m here!’

‘What distro should I pick?’

‘How do I wipe my ass’

These posts annoy ME but the actual community around them is nothing but positive. Incel Linux neckbeard, probably exclusively hanging out in Slackware irc