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All that blue milk needs to come from somewhere.

Gui's? What letter does the apostrophe replace? Did you mean to say "gui is"?

So "gui is are for idiots"?

Maybe the idiot is the one who doesn't know how apostrophes work?

Does Mac prohibit other browser engines like they do on iOS?

Doesn't do a lot of good, that they let you use other browsers if they are just reskins for Safari.

WSL is really easy to setup by now. In the beginning it was really terrible.

Now all you need to do (if you are fine with Ubuntu) is open CMD with admin rights and input wsl --install.

If you want another distro, it's wsl -l -o to check the available distros and wsl --install -d to install it.

More documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

I really want to use the Alchemy Jar in a game. But I never found a way to fit it into the story.

Oh easy, just draw what the players see and let them discover the rest as they go.

Then throw the right player a trigger line and you have half an hour to draw the next 5 lines.

Vim can do much more than nano, but for it to work, quite a few specific stars need to align, and if they don't you are screwed.

Nano on the other had just works. If it exists in your env.

Hopefully... Recent developments look more like they are using unmoderated social media to radicalize themselves and plan real shit.

On the one hand yes, on the other hand that means the Fediverse is involuntarily providing those freaks their own Fedi-Truth-Social.

It's Oedipus with a single parent playing both roles.

Didn't say you did, I only said I am using your terms.

You can't fathom, because apparently you can't or don't want to understand the difference between being frustrated with a product and/or certain parts of the community and a direct attack at you.

I totally understand the OP's point and if I had a helpful solution, I would help them.

They got this data from password leaks. Crappy sites that force you to create an unnecessary account for basic usage are arguebly more often part of password leaks.

So it's not a surprise that a huge amount of leaked accounts have passwords like 123456, because that's exactly the right kind of password for a throwaway account that you'll never need again. In the best case coupled to a trashmail email account.

And like Rapture this will be a total success*!

*The term success is not defined in the scope of this comment.

Fingerprint readers are in many cases a complete write-off when moving to Linux.

Touchpads not made by Synaptics are also a big issue.

Generally, any hardware that isn't standard CPU/storage/mouse/keyboard/printer/AMD GPU is touch and go. Depending on the model, they might work great or not at all.

Nope. The behaviour on about any community on Feddit.de for example is really good and constructive.

Too many people see using FOSS as part of their identity rather than the products they enjoy using. And these people usually get really offended when someone says something negative about their product.

If you think the bracketed passive aggressive BS in the title of OP along with comments within their post disparaging the same community who they expect help from is the correct way for anyone to go about trying to get help about any piece of technology from a community of volunteers who aren't paid to help you, then we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

Tbh, if you don't want to help someone, that's totally fine. Then don't help them.

But don't post, to use your terms, passive aggressive bullshit like "It's working for me, so you must be doing it wrong".

And it's an issue that I have only seen in Linux communities and communities that draw the same crowd, that people get really pissy if you complain about a product.

For example, check out this post of mine over on r/linuxgaming: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/17w5hyo/process_of_setting_up_steamprotonnvidia_prime/

There I documented what I had to do to get Risk of Rain 2 to run on Linux and compared it to Windows.

I didn't offend the community or the people there, I didn't even say anything really negative about Linux or any of the involved products. The only thing I said was "Things could need some improvements".

I had an upvote ratio of 17% and except of one comment, every single commenter wrote some form of "I don't have that problem, so you must be the problem".

The most positive comment there was "I think you are exaggerating".

This is what a toxic community looks like and if you've been on the receiving end of that stick a few times, I am not surprised that comments like the one of the OP here follows.

Linux fanboys (most people using Linux aren't fanboys, but sadly enough of them are) hate people using other OSes than them. They also hate people using other distros than them. And they hate anyone who dare suggest that the software they are using might contain bugs.

And this is something you don't get in communities of any other OS.

I think that's a pretty terrible thing, because these people are really effective at driving newcomers away from Linux.

I don't think that's fair.

I think it's totally understandable, that someone gets ranty when they spent 5h trying and failing to fix something that should be simple.

And compare that to how similar requests for help are handled in Windows communities.

Someone has a big issue with their Windows PC, they spent a lot of time trying and failing to fix the issue.

So they post in some online community "I can't get this piece of crap working. I'm so frustrated with the useless hoops I have to jump through".

The reaction to that, without fail, is "Yeah, I understand why this is frustrating, because it is frustrating and it sucks. Maybe these pointers could help you".

Do the same with something related to Linux, and the answers range from something like your comment ("asking" for help), to helpful comments like "I've never had issues with this, so you must be doing it wrong" to people outright claiming, that the person asking for help is actually a Windows troll who only posts to drag Linux through the mud.

To summarize: in Windows communities there are hardly any fanboys who get butthurt when someone offends their creed. You also never hear "It's working fine for me, so you must be doing it wrong", because most people (even ones without a technical background) understand that not everyone is experiencing the same set of bugs.

In Linux communities, all of that is very common.

Tbh, OP isn't wrong there. Their language is maybe a bit too harsh, but especially in communities about Linux, they really do crucify you if you say anything bad about Linux.

And "anything bad" can range from "I got a problem" over "I have an Nvidia GPU" to "I use Ubuntu". And "I'm frustrated with Linux" will in 100% of cases lead to a lot of downvotes.

That's true, but also a very bad thing.

Most users (read: laptop users) cannot just swap their GPU. They'd have to swap the whole device.

Combine that with the fact, that many people get interested in using Linux when Windows doesn't work any more (e.g. because they don't qualify for Win11 or when they have issues in Windows that they can't resolve), and the general popularity of Nvidia cards (they used to be much better than AMD for a long time) and you get a lot of users with problems.

Obviously, Nvidia is to blame here, but that doesn't help users who can't use their PC fully on Linux.

Like, literally. That's their job description.