Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week we closed the door on features for Plasma 6.6, which opened another one for those features to land in 6.7. As a result, several features were merged for Plasma 6.7, including some particularly juicy ones!
Oh! No no! Don’t get me wrong! I do not think Linux users are superior to Windows users, just that Linux as a platform is superior because it tends to respect users’ more, protects their privacy, often people developing for Linux tend to think about how to make their software more useful (as opposed to just more profitable), which in turn leads to an overall better platform for users.
It is a superior (as in “better”) choice for the people.
No worries, I did not get you wrong. I commented, because I (rightly) assumed that you care to not sound elitist.
I think, a big part of the problem is that saying one choice is superior kind of implies in itself that people who don’t make this same choice are not the smartest.
Obviously, in reality there is a lot of other factors, like inertia (you don’t have to be stupid to not want to learn a different system) and well, the system being separate from the ecosystem (all the light/dark mode features won’t convince someone to switch who strictly needs an application that won’t run on Linux).
But yeah, if people don’t pick up on this nuance or don’t give you the benefit of the doubt, that just is likely to sound elitist to them… 🫠
…I also think Linux users are better than Windows users.
@caseyweederman @Bro666 that only means one of three things:
a) your sample size of Linux users is too small
b) the echo chamber of Linux users you measure yourself against is too homogeneous (and y’all happen to be nice guys)
or c) you really aren’t a nice guy and you just look down on all Windows users equally.
There’s a lot of nice Windows users - and there’s a lot of not-so-nice Linux users. Don’t get confused when measuring up people - judging a whole group from your POV isn’t good at all.
@caseyweederman @Bro666 Remember - from the proper POV, everyone’s an asshole :)
@Bro666 @Ephera this is it exactly. Those that take it the other way have a much too strong bipartisan way of thinking - everything is on exaggerated scales of a vs b, attacking the person, not the subject.
💪👏🏻 well said!