Me, a new Linux convert, watching all the infighting over minutiae:
“I love a good sitcom!”
“Oh, what’s your favourite? Friends? Seinfeld? Fesh Pince?”
“None, it’swayland-protocols”A sitcom about linux developers who constantly argue about minutia could actually be fun if written correctly. They could borrow a bunch of real life incidents and write them in.
GNOME: “…and that’s why I think client-side decorations are the greatest. What do you guys think?”
The camera zooms out to reveal all other desktop environments staring, stone-faced, at GNOME. After a moment, KDE speaks up:
“You really can’t help putting your foot in your mouth.”
Laugh track plays at 300% volume, followed by the Seinfeld outro.
Leave me alone. I have enough drama from my job already, I don’t need more outside work hours.
Linux users are peaceful* and level-headed*.
* barring discussions about Wayland, X11’s obsolescence, Systemd, Pipewire, Rust in the kernel, or even UEFI at times
Do users care about Rust in the kernel? The others all make sense.
You bet. Not many, but they are extremely
passionateemotional about it. They mostly grace the anti-intellectual cesspools with their presence (twitter and such).I used to be like that, about two years ago, mainly because of some bad experiences with compiling Rust programs from source. Then I realized that I’m literally never going to be affected by it since I never compile the kernel myself. Now I’m learning Rust myself.
I tried to use Wayland. My windows flickered to black. I switched to X11. No issue. I’ll try Wayland again next year. -casual Linux user
Narrator voice: “Six years later, they still haven’t tried it again.”
UEFI is OK. Try mentioning Secure Boot.
Even UEFI has its haters, and they’re calling for a return to BIOS in the aftermath of the Gigabyte UEFI vulnerability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTjj1ILCwRs (scroll through the comments)
