linuxmemes

I understand these people lack power elsewhere in their lives and want to be powerful where they believe themselves to be experts, but it’s a real pity they express it with a complete lack of empathy.

You seem bitter.

There are two kinds of Linux elitists - 1) those who know nothing, but have recently discovered Unices and think they are all-powerful and there's the right way to go and simple solutions and everything is clear, and the future is bright, 2) those who are tired to rephrase the manuals and want newcomers to sometimes think why they don't expect Russinovitch-level knowledge of Windows internals from other normal usual Windows users, but with Linux every stupid thing they want to do should be baby-fed to them down to that deep level.

I really hate the first kind, it's the type who think making yet another "nice wallpapers" Ubuntu-based distribution makes them cooler than me, or that Wayland is already good enough for everything and my arguments that there's no FVWM under Wayland should be disproved by myself doing my own google search, and so on.

The second kind is normal for every area of human existence. You don't have to know everything, but also nobody owes you accepting you as equal to those who do, or your opinion, and nobody owes you the benefits of knowledge, and nobody owes you making things work the exact way you want.

TLDR - community members are as valuable as their contributions. If someone's contribution is reposting Nixie Pixel videos (or whatever is their alternative now), then no matter how "not elitist and nice" they are, they are not very useful compared to those with knowledge. But if someone's being elitist without any knowledge (as is typical among Arch Linux users), then maybe they are even less valuable.

I don't think that there is any one issue that hurts the Linux desktop, I think it is more a matter of death by a thousand cuts.

I think for the Linux desktop to be (more) successful we need dedicated QA teams, with a direct connection to usability developers that constantly test and write automated tests for the whole integration on different hardware, and fix any issue as well.

You need to edit a C header file used as a config file, and run make and use the resulting executable file. That hardly keeps out anyone.

At the same time DWM is very convenient, and so was WMII.

Wow. Just wow. What a bunch of utter darlings. Just let them stew in their own idiocy.

Edit: To clarify, I mean the people who wrote this readme.

Those dudes are lost in the sauce. Nobody should be using big endian these days

Git gud n00b!

/s, of course.

I've come across this kind of response a few times on here and elsewhere, but I think it's nowhere near as prevalent as it's sometimes made out to be.

They are literally in this thread here.