• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          As a FreeBSD zealot, I really don’t see anything far from norm with Linux zealots. They are a bit conflict-seeking and ignorant, but that’s ok.

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            14 hours ago

            I have, quite a few in fact. Recently I got into a discussion with someone who was complaining about how bad Linux was because installing it from scratch took an extra ~20 minutes of configuration to set up drivers, meanwhile his Windows systems “just work”. What he didn’t mention, though, was that his Windows systems that “just worked” were pre-build machines that came pre-installed with Windows, in other words the manufacturer already did the hard part of getting all of the drivers installed ahead of time and baked into the image. Turns out he had never actually installed Windows on a bare-metal system before and had to deal with the absolute fucking nightmare Windows driver management is, so he had no basis for comparison, of course he refused to recognize that as a possibility though.

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              14 hours ago

              That doesn’t sound like zealot as much as someone who doesn’t want to think about it though

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                14 hours ago

                In his mind, Windows works, Linux doesn’t, and nothing and no-one can convince him otherwise. That sounds like a zealot to me, but maybe you had something else in mind.

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                  7 hours ago

                  And claiming that it works is zealotry? Sounds like he does like Linux, that doesn’t make him a Windows zealot. Apathetic is kinda Windows target demographic and the antithesis of zealotry

          • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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            They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.

            *A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*