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    [–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ngl, the "switch to linux" crowd is close to a vibe of complaining that "my car is making some weird sounds" and the response is to "buy a new car!" I mean, it would solve the problem of not having that issue with windows/your car, but it also means you have to intrusively replace your workflow and probably find some entirely new programs to do what you already could, and potentially have many new, less explicable problems, just to not have that one tiny problem that you could live around.

    [–] Fisk400@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Often it's worse. It like telling people to move to a different country because the roads are better there.

    [–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    "My ISP, the only ISP available where I live, is terrible and unreliable."

    "You should move."

    That's the "switch to Linux" energy in a nutshell.

    [–] veng@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    As a petrol head, that is a very convincing argument to move.

    [–] Cannacheques@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Yeah nah I think of it kinda like the whole custom ROMs thing for Android. Most people could care less until performance drops to the degree that they have to switch over

    [–] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Car is making some weird sounds -> you slipped a bearing, your head gasket is blown, or something else catastrophic, because you bought a Ford/Kia/etc. -> buy a new car