People are publishing programs anonymously! They don’t care about it, there’s no consequence to it.

Hell, that’s like believing the introduction of a prison system stops all crime. People just try to find better ways to hide.

That’s as long as someone takes the time to check the code, that’s my whole point.

There’s torrents with malware that are well seeded even though you can see comments from people saying they’re infected, people don’t care and you over estimate people’s capacities if you think the majority understands what they’re installing when downloading stuff online, as long as it fills its purpose, they’ll never know that they just installed a crypto miner without realizing it.

Minimizing the chance of things going that wrong… So not trusting anonymous people on the internet?

How many FOSS users are actually able to understand or fix the programs they use? Do you systematically check the code of everything you get from GitHub?

I understand the principle and I do use FOSS, I just don’t make myself believe that more than a ridiculously small minority of people actually check the code of what they’re installing.

At the same time it’s much easier to sue a company you know compared to LollipopCat35 from GitHub

Hopefully it’s as simple as Chrome’s implementation

“We do not like clickbait”

Who gave you the authority to speak in the name of the community exactly?

Don’t be sorry, the joke was funny, it’s just that you’re talking to this kind of crowd

You guys have a penguin up your butt or something? It was a good joke

Oh so you’re saying they could have hosted their shit by renting a server then, glad you managed to reach that conclusion that contradicts your other message.

Where discord never had to lean into it as it was born shit

At this point, charging for the service is the only thing left to do to make it more shit…

Because instructions like these are just standard procedure for Linux.

Yeah but the difference is that even for simple things, Linux instructions look like what was posted by the person I replied to.

“They’re all close relatives”

on which the experience has been tuned to make them as user friendly as possible to the point where they have nothing in common with desktop Linux from an average user perspective.

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And that is why Linux mass adoption is never coming.

Oh fuck that shit, I hate that free projects keep changing name.

Ok and you pinky swear that you never use anything that you don’t know how it works and couldn’t care less?

And you expect everyone to act the same way or you can accept that people have other things to do? I wouldn’t blame a carpenter for not caring to know how their computer works if all the do is go on the internet, I would still want them to build my house before an IT that has an interest in home renovations!

Well I’ve got bad news for you, training and helping people is part of my job, I teach them and help them do their daily tasks and the same people ask me the same questions over and over again.

You say “they need to know even if they’ll use it once or twice”? Well they will have forgotten when that happens because they don’t use it often enough to remember and computers aren’t something they’re interested in in the first place. The computer is their gateway to the internet, just like a car is someone’s way to get to work, the intricacies of how it works and how to do things that are unrelated to these tasks can be taught to them, they will not absorb the information.

I never talked about people switching to Linux as I couldn’t care less about that (the closest of am from running Linux is owning an rpi for pihole, all 5 other computers in my house are on W11 and my interest to switch is zero because I’m computer literate enough that I know I don’t want to make my life complicated just to be a contrarian) or people that use computers for work.

If you’re angry that you have to offer support to people when you work in IT you should change field. You’re like a mechanic that’s angry they get clients to do something basic like changing wipers, either teach the person or do it for them, that’s what you’re paid for, if everyone knew how to do all the stuff you’re helping them with you would be out of a job.

But they know how to use it in accordance with their needs, you’re just mad that they don’t use it to do the shit that you feel is adequate, that’s elitist as fuck.