The H8ers Club

Before I begin writing I will tell you that I use Linux as a main Operating System, I do not dual boot and I really enjoy using Linux. Although overwhelming, I do enjoy the choices I have when configuring what desktop environment I use and the software I can install. I would always recommend Linux to most people, but not everyone. Why not everyone you ask? Well here are the reasons I would not recommend it to everyone and why I think they will never win the Desktop wars.

1. Too Many Distributions: I would list them but I’d like to keep this short.
2. Unwritten rules of the distributions forums: This will be in the next post.
3. No Accountability: The feeling that if you are giving away a free operating system It’s o.k. to release pre-beta as stable. Especially if the distribution has a paid-support section. Maybe it’s just me that sees this.
4. Piss poor attitude: “If you don’t like the distribution you should use another one”. This one really gets me, after you spent days setting up a Linux distro and you go to some forum’s asking for change or how you can change it yourself or even why you don’t like something. Like clock-work some wise ass will always chime in with the before mentioned. Not all Linux forums are like this, I just wish I could say few are like this.
5. Infighting amongst distributions: Well not so much the distributions, it’s the certain users that feel they need to tell everyone and their grandmothers how their distribution great and golden and yours is shit. You kind of think this would be done by 13 year olds and sometimes it is, most of the time it isn’t.
6. Community: More like gated community. I’ll get to that in my next post.
7. Cult Mentality: Never question authority, you will be villanized.

While all these do not happen in every Linux distribution community, I wish I could say they do not happen in any. I rarely post in Linux forums because it seems like some Linux users suffer from battered women’s syndrome.

Tags: Linux

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