Oh, I understand. I was trying to snarkily imply that the smug, autofellating, condescending attitude you mentioned was unfortunately endemic, to the point where it’s starting to feel like some people are secretly jorking it while telling newbs they suck. I think it’s a huge reason why people feel like FOSS isn’t for them.

I mean, #6 is accurate for me. I don’t have a humiliation fetish, so I’d rather pay people to tell me what I’m doing wrong instead of braving the barrage of belittlement that comes from asking for crowdsourced support.

The first? Wasn’t LOIC open souce?

Technically, so does the word ‘robot’, but it’s not from english, so that linguistic connection to slavery doesn’t get noticed.

My sweet, darling, luddite of a partner struggles with changing the ringtone on his phone, but didn’t run into problems using linux.

You’re fine.

I’d say those are keyboard shortcuts.

Yeah, you don’t pay for software, you pay for support that won’t insult you. Seeking support for FOSS stuff is like running a gauntlet of people who insist you’re too stupid to use it.

If we want normies to use FOSS, the community needs to stop saying normies don’t deserve FOSS.

Hey, gimp is a nice open source image editor, don’t insult it by comparing it to this guy