Keep it polite, folks. No personal attacks against others, especially speculations regarding mental or emotional capabilities.
Who did this? The mods themselves? I mean they’re entitled to do whatever they like in their community… within instance rules… Or is this some intervention by someone else?
Only the mod posts there anyway. Locking the community is a mod power.
I’m gonna be real with you, one of the first things I’ve done when I joined lemmy, was to block most of the linux-centered communities.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the same as blocking fucking metric tons of brainrot that you have to do on other platforms, but at the end of the day - constant spam of geeky stuff is still a clutter if you’re not interested in the topic.
I honestly think the whole Linux community should be reading that sub rather than acting like Linux is perfect. Right now desktop Linux is for very tech savvy people who are willing to put in the time to learn and fix, and it’s for their grandmas who only need a web browser and maybe a word processor. Anyone who thinks differently needs to get their head out of the sand. I use Fedora.
This sucks. I was about to sub and contribute.
Lol don’t give them any attention. It’s the same 3 people who didn’t get loved enough during their formative years and cannot distinguish between good attention and bad attention
Meh. I have no issues with novelty accounts/ projects that are taking the piss.
All three of them are Lunduke.
But lunduke doesn’t hate Linux. Only the fact that women are using it.
Quick glance AFat that place and wow. Talk about people completely and utterly missing the point
Yeah, I know I can be annoying when I tell people for the 100th time that they should install Linux, but I wouldn’t have to say that if they didn’t get their computer hacked / full of viruses / full with Microsoft bloat and spyware they want removed and come to me to fix that shit on each of those occasions.
Its all one person. Literally 98% of the posts are one butthurt dude, who then goes on to complain that linux users are annoying because they make it their whole personality.
It just gets sad when you remember the dude running it isn’t doing this for satire. They generally think it sucks.
I thought it was satire at first and thought, how long before they start going after stereotypes? Then I saw it was just that one person and thought damn someone misconfigured their backups and lost their job.
linux is terrible because removing the entire root folder can brick your system it should be more like windows where removing system32 can brick your system
I’m a bit bias right now because I tried to install PopOS on a partition last night to see if i could play with it and make a media server. My VPN client failed to install properly, corrupted the OS and when I booted back to the live disk (Rufus made USB) I was able to format the partition but no longer install to it. The boot loader no longer works and it can’t get into any OS now.
I have to say I haven’t had this problem before, but working in IT and installing Windows on over 10 thousand computers in my career, this has happened to none.
(I’ll try another installer likely and format the partition over and see if another bootloader like grub will take and fix the issue).
Edit: changed course and said fuck it… formatted the entire drive and so much for the other data that was there. Clean install maybe the VPN client won’t botch everything this time.
The mention of UEFI in this context likely means they are thinking of a deletion recursing through sysfs and by extension deleting all visible UEFI variables which, in some firmware editions and versions, causes it not to be able to get through post or into the setup menu.
I vaguely recall this and the general issue was very bad firmware design, but it was possible to make it impossible to even reinstall a system. If you were industrious in windows you could have done the same thing, so malware under windows could also brick such platforms.
Of course rm has more safeguards on it so you have to pass more flags and really really be asking it to try to screw things up.
I just realized that I’ve already blocked both of the mods at some point in the past. The community looks really dead without their posts.
I looked at some posts of them. They posted a meme about how Linux users don’t shut the fuck up about Linux, while running this community… Lol.
As a Linux user, we might be a little too passionate.
It’s easy to be passionate when you aren’t killing your soul with Windows.
we might be a little too passionate
We have to offset the complacency and downright apathy of Windows users, and the tribal/cult mentality of Apple consumers.
Madthumbs posts a lot of misinformation.
Madthumbs finally got some psychiatric help huh?
For whatever reason, Reddit’s algorithm decided I should start seeing that community, and I’ve always struggled to figure out if it’s just Linux users shitposting, or if there are people out there who really just have huge boners for Microsoft
Reddit?
Yeah, Reddit’s got /r/linuxsucks
I’m inclined to think former. Excepting X box players, I’ve never actually met anyone in real life who actually likes Microsoft. Only people who are forced to use it, and don’t feel like migrating to greener pastures.
I also thought it was Linux shitposting, but I’ve had a few comments deleted there. I think they seriously hate Linux for some reason.
It started out as ironic shit posting which attracted and built an unironic hate/conspiracy community
It’s happened over and over and over again lol
They forgot
sudo. Also, why not throw in a-vflag to see your dreams die in real time!Hilarious lmao
Oh cool, I was banned from there last month.
rm -rf /can brick your systemWell good thing there’s basically no legitimate reason to ever even use
rm -rf /anyway so GNU version is perfectly within its rights to refuse to do that by default, am I right? If you know what you’re doing and want to nuke partitions, that’s whatcfdiskandmkfsare for, dammitrm -rf / won’t even run. Only sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root will
