• mriormro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2116·
    9 months ago

    ‘Just switch to Linux’ isn’t a solution to a problem. It’s a tired and lazy ass response that is frankly starting to make me dislike this place.

    • shiftymccool@lemm.eeEnglish
      1912·
      9 months ago

      When “this lemon is too sour” is the problem, maybe “here, try this orange” is the solution. Can you imagine responding like “No! People are always talking about oranges! I’m sick of it and won’t try one!” Ridiculous…

      • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Trying an orange is a lot easier than creating a boot USB, copying all your files over to an external hard drive, installing a new OS, fixing weird things like the graphics card having crap performance or the laptop screen brightness not dimming, learning the weird 3 letter file structure, being bogged down by apt-get vs snaps vs flatpak and adding repos (why not search and download an .exe like a normal OS), realizing that your more specialized programs don’t work, etc.

        Besides, it’s not just ONE person, seeming everyone says it every time a lemon has a scratch or a blemish or too many seeds. And then they dramatize it by calling it an “abusive relationship”.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      How much more practical it is to complain about users of a different system than the one the thread is about? It got to a point people are doing this preemptively even.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      01·
      9 months ago

      I mean “Just fix Microsoft and change its direction to be less consistently hostile and disrespectful of users” is a solution…

      “Put an end to the data and attention harvesting economy” is another.

      …but…switching OSs was easier for me personally, until we figure out how to wrangle a tech behemoth or fix underlying problems with human civilization.