to translate linus's epic speech which gardner steam deck boy agreed with
i am pretending to be retarded because i have soft bigotry of low expectations so i will refuse to read anything, copy paste commands willy nilly, not ask anyone for help, complain about having too many options, and then claim i speak for most people
and yeah if the average user was actually that fucking arrogantly stupid i'd give up on linux being adopted by anybody because the "normies" he talked about would be irredeemable
that bullshit excuse falls through when you start reading youtube comments and talking to new users who are making the switch and in the first day of them switching over they prove linus's stereotype is dead wrong and he just thinks his audience is a bunch of mouth breathing apes
I think you're right. I'll call people retarded niggers, and niggercattle that deserve to be eaten. But really people could learn this stuff. Especially something like mint. Besides window's having the benefit of coming preinstalled on machines. The real thing that holds them up, is almost everyone learned how to use a computer on a windows operating system. They did have to learn how things worked, but they did it through the perspective of this is how computer's are, so this is what you are supposed to do, and how you are supposed to use them. So now when they go to linux. They will have to relearn some things. But this time they are doing it as an adult that hasn't had to think about this stuff ever.
And really. The most retarded, mouth breathing nigger. I think is the person that will have the easiest time moving to linux. After they manage to get it installed at least. Because they really don't need it to do anything other than load a web browser, or maybe use some of the other applications that will come pre installed on whatever distro they have. I've installed mint on a few peoples computers. I've never had any of them ask me for help with anything really, after I showed them how to open a browser, and do other simple things like showing them where the settings are. So I really think linus is dead wrong. The only people that are retarded enough when it comes to computers to act like he does, are the ones that are too bad at this stuff for it to ever be a problem. Because they have the simplest use cases of anyone.
In my mind, those two are the posterchild models of free software projects, how they should be carried out. Everything else is trash and I'm tired of pretending it's not
There are so many things that are open source, or free software projects, that people use every day. And that are so ubiquitous that no one ever even thinks about the fact that they are.
Like browsers. And the browsers that aren't open source, most people tend to avoid. Like microsoft edge. Most people would rather use chromium, or firefox if anything. There are a lot of people that just use chrome. But you really aren't gaining anything when you use googles extra glowied up version. And a lot of them use it without even thinking about it. But really the core of chrome (and the others that have proprietary components), is supported by chromium which an open source project. And sure, browsers are bloated and shit in their own way, but that's a different complaint.
Or if you go on any website that has video content. It's almost certainly going to be using ffmeg. That's a free software project. No one stops to complain that they aren't using a proprietary library to watch their video. Because ffmpeg does it's job well.
There are a ton of similar examples you can find. If you look at the things people are using constantly, but aren't bothering to think about what they are using. Because they are just the default options that everyone uses. Because they work well. (like ublock origin, yet another example, it's pretty much accepted to be the best option for an adblock).
