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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    @Honytawk Billions of flies can't be just wrong, can they.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    @drq This sort of flippant fanboyism never helped anything.

    Myself I think this is one of those things that really stall FOSS as it just dismisses both competition and coexistence.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    @shuro Popularity is not a function of quality is the point here.

    Also "competition and coexistance" is an honor system. It only works as long as everybody agrees to play nicely. Which is hardly the case here.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

    @drq It is not like we have two nations at war here, each with their ideals, religion and glorious leader. It is more about people who are users, developers and other contributors and it is also about evolution.

    You'll have hard time evolving if you dismiss everything (or maybe you'll get real good at fleeing and hiding but that's about it).

    I mean there were countless times when I saw people asking "how do I do this on Linux which I did in Windows" and getting "YOU DO NOT. WE DON'T NEED THIS SHIT HERE". (for me it was something Samba related and I got a great advice to just use NFS. Yeah, right).

    For three or so years using Linux I never had people asking or talking about Windows features that would be cool to have. It is like taboo. Even Mac gets a pass.

    It gets a bit better in corporate sector where people care less about tribalism and more about getting things to work. I wonder if Linux would took off to what it is now if corporations ignored it for some reason (e.g. extreme licensing enforcement) and decided to make their own - which is kind of happening btw.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Good things we aren't flies then.

    Because if we were, shit would be the shit and you would be eating it as well.

    It is only because we are human that we think of shit as something negative.