Having children.

Easy enough for them so far. Literally no Americans shooting back.

Was anything before “Edit:” rude? Should I expect that everyone in the Linux community will reply to genuine barriers with contempt and downvotes? Because that’s what you’re saying of the reply to my original post.

You’re saying I would only get “more” downvotes for being rude, hence you expect some downvotes on a genuine list of concerns no matter what.

What a community! 🙄

On top of that, writing a second comment so you see this update.

I only have one drive, with secure boot and bitlocker active. You of all people, someone involved with Linux on Lemmy, should know what a recipe for disaster it would be to partition that drive. Given Windows’ proclivity for breaking everything when it comes to Linux and dual-booting, on top of being new to the scene, my concerns seem pretty fucking legitimate.

And yet the reception is cold downvotes and a mischaracterisation of my original post.

Great job you guys, surely the year of Linux will be any day now with that attitude 🙄…

I didn’t ask for help. Nor did I command anyone to help.

Yet people didn’t do the bare minimum of acknowledging the potential issues. They downvoted and hid their head in the sand.

I wish I could use Linux. But the barriers of entry for me are:

• drivers for a 2500x1600 OLED display
• drivers for the 5070 Ti on a laptop
• drivers for all sorts of things like the Lenovo Vantage and/or Lenovo gaming software
• the keybinds for changing refresh rate, turning on/off keyboard lighting, changing power mode on Windows for their gaming line

On another note:

• proprietary statistics software
• MTGO (“magic online”, not magic arena)
• BF6
• probably others that would break but I have no idea which as of yet

Edit: Did some Linux cultist downvote my real concerns because the reality they were slapped with disagreed with their fictitious worldview? Sure seems like it. Learn to take criticism and grow the fuck up, idiot.

The idiots in question^

Add another useless idiot: https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/knatschus

Then you guys wonder why people say the Linux community is toxic as all fuck.

Another toxic idiot: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/darklamer

Amazing how so far no one has bothered replying, because they’re real barriers and you guys don’t like your thin propaganda to be ignored. Keep living in the “Linux is perfect” bubble, cultists.

https://feddit.org/u/goatinspace

All you’re doing is adding yourself to a “Linux cunt” list. Keep at it. Maybe you get an aneurysm and the world gets a net positive.

I mean, do you blame him? Mastodon is a bad experience for new users.

Notice how all of these are American…?

Take this with a huge grain of salt, but your survey does not respect any good qualitative analysis guidelines. You’ve got biases and heuristics all over, most notably leading questions and anchoring as examples.

Edit: P.S. I feel, as a trained economist, that you fundamentally misunderstood the dynamics of government intervention and centralisation of power. As well as the voting dynamics… It’s a mess.