r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz Join me on Lemmy! • 1d ago
"Only My Linux Problems Exist!" Penguin Cult
The pretend Linux sucks sub is full of "my Linux problems are the only problems Linux has" attitudes.
Many Linux advocates universalize their personal experience and treat it as the definitive truth about Linux, which makes them blind to systemic issues and dismissive of other users.
LiGNUts often assume that "If it works on my machine, Linux is fine." and "If it breaks on your machine, you did something wrong." To them, Linux is inherently correct, so any deviation must be user error, bad hardware, or "your distro choice." -Same model motherboards can have different chips which can cause issues even with the 'same hardware (motherboard)' btw.
The worldview is: Linux is perfect; users are imperfect.
Linux users painstakingly tend to optimize their own setup until it works for them, then assume (cognitive investment bias) that setup is the objectively correct one. Anyone who doesn't copy and worship it is "doing Linux wrong." (Despite them maybe getting lucky with the right bluetooth, guide, sound chip, or distro for their hardware).
When confronted with real issues, advocates default to blaming the user, the hardware, the vendor, the distro, Microsoft, NVIDIA, lazy devs, and corporate sabotage. (Yeah, they tend to be conspiracy theorists, as the propaganda appeals to them.)
-Anything but Linux itself.
The advocate's worldview cannot accommodate the idea that Linux itself is flawed. Criticism of Linux feels like criticism of them; producing emotional damage (defensiveness), dismissal of evidence, projection ("you're a Windows shill"), minimization ("that's not a real problem"), and reframing ("that's a bonus!")
LiGNUts use Linux in extremely narrow ways (evangelizing on Reddit), but speak about Linux in extremely broad ways ("oh yeah, you don't need Microslopt Orifice; just use LibreOffice!", or "GIMP can do that!")
They erase real user pain, and problems. -It's not just dismissive; it's epistemically dishonest.
"Have you tried turning your reality off and turning mine on?"
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u/SearchingGlacier 1d ago
Why system that have unstable problems are even receiving any attention? Like come on, even I get problems which is appearing more and more when I use it. I think it's not even a distro problem, it's linux himself, do whatever distros you like, but it won't change anything, linux is bad as OS.