[feisty0630]

While TFA is a bit of a disorganised stream of consciousness, I can definitely empathise with the author on the majority of their points. The desktop Linux community is full of people that are, frankly, completely insufferable.

This isn't even isolated to the online world. I still remember when I presented my Honours project for University and the "demo" consisted of a few Debian VMs running on my laptop to serve as a facsimile of a compute cluster. An attendee (a respected industry representative) openly and publicly mocked me for not using RHEL or CentOS - despite the fact I'd already explained the implementation was distro-independent.

There's a degree of smug arrogance that's quite pervasive in tech fields, but the desktop Linux community seems to be an outlier even among that. I'm unsure how much of it is lack of social awareness, or neurodivergence, or what, but it's exhausting and it's a big reason why I (also a desktop Linux user) don't really engage in those communities.

[S3kshun8]

This happens at all kinds of scales throughout the community. The worst part ultimately is how many new users/devs get ran off because of this sort of thing in every nook and cranny of it.

[noosphr]

> I implemented it in a real operating system. Your toy OS is best left to brain dead enterprise programmers who can't edit a config file to save their lives.