Unless it’s a service animal, I don’t like when dogs are in public buildings. Tired of trying to buy food at the grocery store but having to dodge dogs and avoid stepping over their leashes. This anger is mostly directed at their owners as I’m skittish around dogs I don’t know.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I was wary of Linux for years because the whole "Linux is user friendly, it's just picky about its friends" thing came off to me as "we take pride in the fact that our platform is obtuse and difficult to use." It made me think the appeal of Linux was to act as a form of Gatekeeping in the vein of "Oh, you're a nerd? Name all the Avengers." When I finally had to learn Linux in college, I actually found it quite easy to pick up.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I've picked up a lot of stuff in Linux but damn if Linux people weren't completely worthless at writing tutorials. If a program I want isn't on my package manager, it almost always takes way too fucking long to figure out how to install it.

      • Paradox5240 [he/him,any]
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        2 years ago

        I would argue to the contrary, whenever I want to use software that isn't FOSS or for Linux specifically, it usually has zero or completely useless documentation. For most major projects, FOSS documentation is usually pretty good. Unless you are trying to install some random small project, typically it is already in your repos (depending on your distro) or it isn't that difficult.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Maybe it's just because bad experiences stand out in my memory, but it does seem to me that when apt-get fails there's a 50/50 shot I'll be directed to a github with an install.md that just says "download the tarball and build it" and be completely on my own to figure out the rest of the owl.

          • Paradox5240 [he/him,any]
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            2 years ago

            Hard to tell, but in my experience, it is really rare that I don't find what I am looking for in my distro repos. Unless it is like a random utility that almost no one uses or some development library etc. But with those, it is kinda expected that you know what you are doing. I don't even remember when was the last time I actually installed something manually from source when I wasn't making some changes in source repo or something similar.

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Same, it was never bad, but fuck they cant seem to talk to people assuming no knowledge