My favorite is when someone tells me that they are too old to learn about new technology, or that they can’t use a device because they aren’t very tech-y. No, you just refuse to learn.

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    9 hours ago

    Linux nerds screeching about how Linux desktop works perfectly out of the box and with less time and effort then Windows/OsX.

    It’s entirely counterproductive to adoption.

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      5 hours ago

      It works out of the box - if you do nothing at all to it and just browse.

      But to do anything like getting all of your favorite programs, that’s going to take effort.

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        4 hours ago

        Not even. I need custom scripts for audio, can’t turn my display off and on I need to pull the HDMI cable, and Bluetooth is basically unusable.

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      7 hours ago

      “I got my 107 year-old great grandmother running Arch from the command line in 20 minutes! Now she browses with Lynx and hosts a Matrix server.”