And the handler shows up for damage control

Just for fun maybe compare both of your comments and maybe you can tell me the differences in phrasing and character usage. There might even be a small prize for you.

I didn’t say it was complicated, I said it was fractured and incomplete and terrible for desktops, but I can see where your mind is going just by that statement

Fucking linux elitism rearing its ugly head.

Oh I’m so sorry that my pet OS is too tough for your poor mind to comprehend, maybe go read twenty or so manuals to get up to speed?

When was the last time you tried Linux?

2015 I tried Mint again and Manjaro because some users claimed it had great hardware detection and that’s been one of my biggest problems my entire time, and guess what? It didn’t work! Nothing I could do would get even OpenGL and linux native 3d games to run

I’m not a technical person by the way; just a normal dude who uses Linux now.

And now I know you’re a liar too. It’s really sad how quickly lemmy fell as compared to reddit. At least on reddit I got a few years before the forum sliders showed up

… worse than fucking vegans…

Firstly, thank you for being the first sane human response to my post, sincerely.

Second, a good amount of my rage is medical, Intermittent Explosive Disorder (what a fucking unfortunate but appropriate acronym). Wikipedia can tell you more if you are interested

And I agree, we NEED a safe open source option, just the fractured landscape of infinite vanity distros doesn’t create that, it just creates ten million more safety concerns.

And I used to have a linux friend, literally the most brilliant person I’ve ever known and he drank himself to death at the age of 24. I know that’s irrelevant to the story but I’m drunk, emotional, and as mentioned medically angry nearly all the time.

Also I’d like to feel my rage is precision-directed. Linux has lost its way long ago and it isn’t event trying to get back on track, if I glower at enough devs maybe they’ll shift the culture because asking nicely sure as fuck hasn’t worked

When I called out the bots on reddit, I got banned from reddit, when I called out the bots on twitter, I got shadowbanned from twitter

Guess I’m past due for lemmy.

If there is even a human handler behind this account, I want you to know: in my line of work I’ve been adjacent to AI tech since the early 90s when it was just modeling roach neurons on supercomputer clusters, I have seen a FUCKTONNE of AI output, a metric fucktonne. And you start to see patterns and word choices, strange characters and modes of speech. Add on top of that I’ve been terminally online since AOL still shipped free CDs, and a voracious reader so I’ve ALSO been exposed to a fucktonne of human output.

And just like that lady who can smell Parkinsons, I can smell AI output

And while you must have had an interesting header for the slang and tone, you can’t escape the phrasing and character usage.

I tried Linux ~15 years ago

fucking chatgpt bullshit, and here I was actually starting to think one of you may not be entirely insane.

What fucking community are we in?

Certainly not ‘c/SERVERGaming’

I don’t think you want the targeted hate that will ensue when I try your suggestion and get stuck on some ridiculous thing with no solution for days.

Just like the other 12 times I tried some rando cultist’s ‘sure bet’ suggestion in a forum

You clearly see my disgust for the OS and entire community, yet still you proselytize. Do you not even get a tiny glimpse why most normal people can’t deal with your kind?

Your unwarranted sarcasm is delicious, I mastered CLI before you were even born

So, you are asking me to provide you screenshots of a usenet form from the late 90s?

What the FUCK is wrong with you?

I should be allowed to ban every hundredth person that replies like this, instead I’ll just block you

That doesn’t have any impact on desktop gaming PCs, which are the devices we are discussing here.

Again, another linux cultist who deliberately misunderstands to get their rancid 2 cents in

what an extremely neurotypical way to respond to my medically induced outrage

Do you think I posted this to somehow convince you of something? I don’t even know who the fuck you are

… us average joes…

Son I’ve been an IT admin since the early 90s

Only for servers, and of course the fact that you are dishonest about the metric just reinforces all I feel towards your ilk

except not, not at all

Saying that there is a gaming focused linux distro is like saying there’s a cliff-climbing focused dolphin.

I’m sure the delusional believe in it, but actual reality says otherwise.

Well I tried redhat ubuntu gentoo fedora knoppix mint arch MEPIS and even fucking slackware because apparently i am a masochist

And you will say ‘Oh but those are old distros, now they’re much betterer!’

Nope the weeks of frustration aren’t worth revisiting. You really don’t understand how much PTSD I got from the linux forums

It’s important to me for linux users to know how much I despise them

No one is more bitter than a disillusioned ex-believer, and I tried so hard to be an early Linux adopter in the late 90s, early 00s. I was bright eyed and full of hope for an open source future.

Spent 3 years trying to transition to linux as my daily driver, and every time I tried it was just days of frustration and every time I tried to go to any of the various linux forums at the time, all I got in return was literally hundreds of users telling me to read a list of books before I had the right to ask questions.

This happened EVERY FUCKDAMN place I went, forums, usenet, IRC, even oldschool bulletin boards

The worst part about the experience is that the environment is so fractured that every distro is basically it’s own unique thing, with quirks and differences that aren’t apparent to people who haven’t been using them for years already, and that everyone is so fuckdamn hard on depreciating still used functions or just renaming fucking functions for vanity sake

So past forum posts are likely just not going to be helpful anymore, which is a really fucking ridiculous design choice when one of the primary project goals is ubiquitous interoperability and long term support.

Linux is a waste of human energy. Can you even imagine the hundreds of millions of human development hours that went into failed distros and vanity changes being actually used to make one unified fucking amazing OS?

The original dream was a community of dedicated and passionate devs working together to unseat corporate software control

Instead what we got was a thousand fractured groups all doing whatever the fuck they feel like and now you need a fuckdamn college course to figure out which of the thousand distros are for you

Fuck linux

Fuck the people who promote it

That is all

lol no

So Linux bumps up 2 percentage points due to steam decks and all the linuxbois are taking a victory lap

Windows lives in your head rent free

You’re worse than vegans, at least vegans have a moral position.

Edit: screenshotting this for when the mods ban me again

Investors demand number go up quickly, it’s what’s destroying our world

Ok so how do you propose that ‘ethical’ software devs prevent the release week bleed that piracy brings?

I mean, I am ALL FOR piracy and have been doing it for years, just it has a marked effect on first week sales

I also think DRM is the wrong answer, but I can’t think of any other answers so maybe you have some?

It’s not the AAA market, it’s the investors

Some day you’ll realize capitalism ruins everything it touches but until then you will blame everything else

And yet when you call them out for co-opting the feminist label, instead of being outed by actual feminists, their detractors are publicly lambasted as being anti-feminist.

Mission accomplished

Because you have allowed the social discourse to be dominated by authoritarians, and have not supported the voices of your fellows that fight against fascism, you are now being overrun by fascists.

Enjoy. You have no one to blame but yourselves.

Half Life orange box, the last physical media I ever bought. 2009-10 ish. Still have the cosmetics for tf2

Literally your ENTIRE first reply is a strawman and an argumentum ad absurdum thrown in for good measure.

It was a mistake to let any of you on the internet, and I sure did warn them.

Not for a lot longer tho

You did exactly what I predicted, exactly why I hate the modern internet. I even told you I hated it but YOU STILL DID IT ANYWAY

I am not the asshole in this situation, bud

I fucking told you and you didn’t listen. How about you go do your own work instead of constantly demanding free labor from others?

There is really no benefit to relieving your ignorance

If I leave you in the dark, I am badwrong for not doing free labor for you

If I answer your question, I just get my inbox flooded with people looking to argue for no good reason.

They lost a license on an old all in one game in the late 80s because they did not defend it rigorously enough in court. You won’t be able to find an article about it b/c all legal nintendo case searches get caught on the Palworld and Wii U controller court cases even if you change the date ranges.

I don’t know what the name of the unit was, it was never released outside of Japan. IIRC it was a tank simulator game with the console built into a controller that looked like a little turret on a pivot and used the same tech as eventually went into the nintendo light gun

The reason nintendo so aggressively pursues emulation is that they are scared of losing the rights to things like their bios files.

Why are people upvoting your obviously incorrect statement? Do we literally just not care about truth anymore?

Might want to research Japanese IP law before you strawman, but apparently by the upvotes all of lemmy is just as ignorant as you are

fucking staggering ignorance here, rewarded as usual

Literally none of you understand why nintendo is doing this

Japan has very strict IP laws, nintendo lost out on licensing in the past because of this, so they pursue all infringement aggressively so they aren’t judge as not sufficiently defending their ownership.

But it doesn’t really matter to you or the thousands of other people who post this because you don’t really want to be educated and just want to be rewarded for your clever words.

‘I don’t care’ isn’t boomers, that’s GenX and fuck you for getting us mixed up

Seriously, fuck you

Narrator: It won’t

You really have no idea how deep this runs at Blizzard

Only a decade too late