04-21-2021, 10:47 PM
(04-21-2021, 09:15 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: It's the bane of all question/answers sites: while crafting a good question, you will likely find the answers by yourself and eventually never ask the question. So the questions asked are mostly the bad ones...
Well, since this is "the water cooler", I'll expand on observed conditions a bit.
I've NEVER been a big fan of Microsoft, for a multitude of reasons. But when IBM pulled the plug on OS/2, it left me feeling kind of exposed. I propped up OS/2 for several years after it was dead, and played around with SUSE as a hoped for destination.
Microsoft finally had their "even a broken clock is correct twice per day" moment with Windows 7, and since it was already on a laptop I bought, I used it long enough to get used to it... It met my needs.
Don't like Windows 10, so that pushed me back to Linux about a year ago.
And in the past year visiting Linux forums have sincerely wondered what it is about Linux that attracts all the misanthropes. It often seems as though the strong thrive on preying upon the weak at the "help" forums. Between the people who just seem to think up the rudest, most self aggrandizing way they can possibly respond to people, or the dozens of self-amused buffoons who troll new help requests insisting the solution to every problem is "Type man into any terminal"....I'm frankly surprised that there is any retained growth in the user base.
I sincerely have started to think that most Linux help forms aren't about providing help to those who need it, nearly so much as they are just a d*ck measuring contest for a bunch of greybeards preoccupied with patting each each other on the back over their accomplishments. "king of the hill" seems a likely motive among some of them.
