you'll have to forgive me if I don't give this sentiment much weight when it's said by people who define "conservative" as "anyone to the right of Ursula K. LeGuin"
I've always been baffled by this sentiment
if you (by which i mean you the reader, not OP) use linux for no other reason than to be able to tell people you use linux, kindly get the fuck out of my community
that specific combination of things describes over 90% of lemmy
the only thing I remember about that one is how verbose it was. sentences over 50 words long were not uncommon
many posts on reddit literally are from karma farming bots though. predictable username pattern, repost from half a year ago with the exact same title that gets deleted exactly 24h later...
They're also similar in that if you tell them you use Linux but like Canonical and/or Lennart Poettering they'll yell at you and call you all sorts of names but if you tell them you're a Windows user they'll leave you alone
Every couple of years I think to myself "Ubuntu can't be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it's just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why'd I stop using it?"
And then I download Ubuntu.
And then I remember.
Ah yes, the solarpunk high tech happy-for-everyone future in which artists no longer have jobs and are forced to do something they hate doing because otherwise they won't eat.
This post goes out to like half of .ml
this should be required reading before anyone is allowed to leave a comment on Lemmy about voting