The best one I’ve ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn’t be compatible.
“Never used Linux,” They say, typing on a chromebook or android phone, before picking up their steamdeck.
while browsing the web (hosted on linux).
Not to interject, but when people talk about using “Linux” they’re generally referring to desktop Linux (usually GNU/Linux). ChromeOS and SteamOS are Linux distros of a sort under the hood, but they’re also highly curated experiences. Android technically uses the Linux kernel but architecturally it’s so drastically different from basically any other system using it that it’s quite misleading to call it “Linux” in the colloquial sense.
”You can’t trust free software”
This was quite a few years ago, but a friend of mine said he’d tried Linux but had switched back because some clipboard feature he was used to using didn’t work (sorry, I forget the details). He was a programmer to, so perfectly capable of troubleshooting or finding some alternative tool. I just stared at him dumbfounded.
Sadly its really hard to change habits. But it goes both ways, every time I need to use windows I find myself grunting for every minor thing that doesn’t work as expected.
I get him though, mouse wheel click for a secondary copy buffer is one of the main things that’s extremely annoying to me when I have to use Windows, I can never retrain my brain to stop doing it and I get annoyed that it doesn’t work until I remember why.
“Linux isn’t made for professional use” - Colleague from Work who is an Apple stan. And yes he bought the Apple™ Cloth for iPhone.
“Lack of consensus on pronunciation of name.”
And I stand by it.
Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux
Agreed. But it does make it easy to tell evil Linux users from good Linux users. I pronounced it so you can tell who is who.
I’m so glad you agree that Linux users are the evil ones.
Obvious, right? Only an evil person would say it that way.
The whatchacallit, terminal with super cryptic commands is too hard. When I go on the internet and say my system has a problem and they tell me to type sudo pacman -Syu, I need something more easier than that. You know like-- with more steps. And five modal GUIs. And buttons.
What if the browser doesn’t work? It will work.
my motherboards drivers don’t come with windows, and so when i tried to install it and it forced me to connect to the internet, i just couldn’t. luckily i found a usb dongle to ethernet which worked ootb.
never had a weird mono driver issue like that on any linux distro i tried.
I did because the laptop I had bought had a brand new processor and not all the drivers were in the kernel version that was in the distro’s newest ISO. I had to plug in a keyboard, screen, and network adapter to install the right kernel.
“I wanna try out this FreeBSD thing.”
“not polished enough” when comparing to widose
Sounds like they’d like gnome
Most silly excuse was my boss refusing to install Linux because he just had a friend give him original windows 98se licenses for the PCs we just bought for the company.
Well it gets less silly thinking that getting the eprom programmer software and orcad 4 working on Linux was probably impossible.
Then it was outright the best decision ever, because those machines never required a reinstall and worked flawless for the 5 years I was there working. Never understood the bad rep W98Se had. Never used it on my personal rigs of course.
“I don’t want to learn something new”
How tf am I supposed to respond to that?
there’s a meme i’ve seen a few times about how it’s “an operating system for coding”
the dumbest reason was that they hate penquins, but the one you can’t argue with is that they don’t need to because it does all they need it to do
If the next words out of that foxes mouth arnt a tirade of absolute unfiltered hate towards gnome. Then we goanna have problems. And I think Its time for a nice new fox fur scarf.
KDE or stay away :P
The gnomes just want a quiet, peaceful life in the safety of your garden. They are friends.
Guh-nome, on the other hand…
Here’s my stupid reason. I only play video games, I like using mods, I don’t use steam and all my games come in .exes from fitgirl lol. I’m sure it’s possible to do it on Linux. I’m certain it’s more difficult.
“it’s not for desktop use”
