Absolute loony…

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    15 hours ago

    It’s hard to believe there is anyone who would care so much about Windows that they naturally get this dedicated to crusading for it.

    We know now days that there are people getting paid to discredit vegans online, and that’s the only explanation for this that makes sense to me.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      discredit vegans

      lolwat?

      like, “yeah it’s true, they’re all eating bacon when we aren’t looking-” ?

      my deceased FIL was a ms cheerleader for decades, went to MSDN events, had a home office fuckin chock fulla MS credentials and certificates (wooden displays plaques) - he would talk about Linux being a) useless hobbyist OS that’ll never be reliable for REAL jobs (this was already delusional in the late 90s) and b) it’ll be ‘outlawed because they’re gonna find stolen code watch’.

      so just fyi, some people are deranged and ideologically motivated, his was probably due to insecurity about MS - even back then it was heinously expensive (CAL’s and licence management being one of his main jobs and a source of constant budget overages)… wonder what he’d think of today’s ms with bash and linux lol…

    • auzy1@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Not just windows… They just hate Linux.

      The reason I think they’re an Apple user though, is that Apple users also defend BSD (since, the MacOS core was essentially unix based), and the culture changed a bit to look down on windows less when the intel macs were released with Windows.

      I used to sell gear, and a lot of Apple people tend to just like to attack linux in my experience

      The funny thing is that they say “linux doesn’t run any games”, but, MacOS has always sucked at games

  • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    12·
    18 hours ago

    I feel like this is probably a disinformation bot. Why would a human being have such strong feelings about an OS that allows people to circumvent corporate control/surveillance on their PC?

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      6·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s either that or someone who has decided their special interest is hating linux. If it’s the user that I think it is, when I looked at their history earlier, pretty much every post of theirs is over the top anti-linux.

      Though I am glad to see that most of the accounts I suspect of astroturfing are generally downvoted to the negatives here. Though I do wonder if this place will end up being a training ground for propaganda that works on the segments of the population that are highly represented here that don’t seem as susceptible to the shit that would get eaten up on FB or gain some traction on reddit. Actually, windows love probably does well on reddit since it’s made up of people who haven’t gotten tired enough of the enshitification to leave and are probably doing the same with windows.

      That… might even be why they enshitified it so much for no apparent benefit at the cost of many users that contributed positively. Those contributions might not have been seen as so positive if they responded to marketing bullshit negatively.

  • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip
    32·
    22 hours ago

    Dude tried to argue with me that ECC memory is why windows is better.

    Yes, he’s that stupid.

    He kept trying to argue that anything open source is “commie garbarge.”

    You can see me completely destroy all of his arguments and he runs away like the MAGA bitch he is. Pathetic.

    • percent@infosec.pub
      6·
      15 hours ago

      He said that on Lemmy, an open source platform, hosted mostly (I assume) on Linux servers? Brilliant

      • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Yup, and I asked him at least 5 times if he believes that why is he not only on Lemmy, but moderates his own community on what he calls “commie garbage.”

        He ran away every single time.

    • auzy1@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      20 hours ago

      Pretty sure I responded to the same post.

      He started saying Linux needed ecc for a while, windows didn’t, which is absolutely ridiculous given that a lot of Mac’s needed ecc, and windows server explicitly recommends ecc.

      My Linux Android phone doesn’t use ecc either, or people’s Samsung tv

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
    14·
    22 hours ago

    Suggested it might be more fun praising an OS you actually lke, instead of ~500 posts on something you hate. Am now banned

  • Pipea@lemmy.world
    92·
    21 hours ago

    Why do you think there’s such an interest in VFIO and passing a graphics card thru to a VM? You think all these people are just happily making their own cloud gaming Stadia clone? Nah fam, they’re fucking cheaters trying to hide their tracks. For every five legit posts there’s a “why can’t I get BattleEye/EAC to work in a VM?” JUST STOP CHEATING BRO

    • auzy1@lemmy.worldOP
      352·
      1 day ago

      MT is going to continue anyway. Might as well show newbies what a crazy loser they are, so at least the posts all get downvoted into oblivion as they post them

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        9·
        22 hours ago

        That’s the attention he gets off on. It’s not like he’s coming off as sane and tricking people into agreeing with him. He’s coming off like someone preaching on a street corner who isn’t even facing the right direction.

        Just ignore him. If you can’t do that, condescend to him. But yeah he’s getting off on the attention, so don’t feed the troll

        • auzy1@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          12 hours ago

          The difference is, the street corner people DO get attention, and later get noticed on places like facebook and such, and people can hear them (they just need to play victim)… if a tree falls in a forest and nobody sees it, does it matter?

          If their posts stay negative, they’ll probably just leave, because even people subscribed won’t see them

          • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
            1·
            7 hours ago

            They’re a troll - and fundemental to being a troll is taking positive reinforcement from negative reactions. Thats more or less their whole thing. This guy keeps doing it because posts like these keep demonstrating that he is getting attention paid to him - as do things like his posts getting copious downvotes. Ignoring trolls really is the best way to handle them.