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TechConnectify@mas.to - Oh my gosh I just figured it out.

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people who are talking about a problem with whatever commercial software they use and suggest Your Favorite Alternatives™ is exactly like saying "why don't you just buy a house?" to someone complaining about their landlord.

TechConnectify@mas.to - Actually, to borrow from @DoubleA, it's worse than that.

It's like talking to someone who is in a crappy apartment as though they have the agency and skills to stake out a plot of land and build their own home.

You have to be at peace with the fact that some people just want to exist and not worry about so many things. And they still have a right to complain about their situation.

Link to thread: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/111539959265152243

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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago

Not to buy a house but to get a house for free?

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's more like telling someone "Why don't you just build your own house?"

[–] mPony@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Rekhyt@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

Recompiling my foundation and hoping it still holds the house up when I'm done.

[–] yiliu@informis.land 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That was true in 2000. The situation had improved a lot by, like, 2005, but it was still pretty rough. You were still likely to have to drop to a console at some point even in 2010.

These days there's 20 distributions that are easier to install, use, and maintain than Windows, and you don't even have to know ls to use it.

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[–] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 15 points 2 years ago

You can pay each month or be free forever.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This feels like gossip and I wish that Lemmy would let me mark this post as hidden.

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[–] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago

It looks like what they were trying to convey is apparently that it can be a large time and effort commitment that most people don't have the technical expertise to figure out, which is a fairly reasonable argument in some contexts, but I do not think they conveyed it very well and they're being kind of a dick about it in the replies, so idk. I understand the point, but this is NOT the way to get it across.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh, sounds like the average person in that he just wants to stick to what is familiar to him. Can't save 'em all

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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is just wrong, people stay stuck with propertiary software either out of habit or not wanting to learn new things (Assuming there is alternatives ofc). People who rent often have no other option. People who use propertiary software have other options they just don't care ebough to utilize them.

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