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Why has a submission about nouveau's website devolved into Gnome/gnome devs bad, gib upvotes lol
Man I couldn't be a Linux dev. Giving up your time to do highly skilled work for free, then you get roundly hated for it and called a piece of shit by the very people who are benefitting from your free work lol. It'd burn me out pretty quickly.
E: the other comments appear to have been removed. It was just a circlejerk about Gnome devs being evil, and mocking the dev here for having mental health struggles related to the amount of hate they receive.
Hey, all I want is for Linux hardware vendors to stop selling nvidia's trash!