boy was that a mistake. If there's a hobby you like, ,its always best to keep it niche, lest the mainstream completely ruins it and the hobby's communities as well
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Linux too. Growing up the people who used it were all about "how do we get more people to use this Linux thing that's so cool?"
Which is interesting because that same group of people (myself included) were keenly aware of the "Eternal September" effect and yet apparently somehow didn't think it would happen in this instance.
Which just tells me that every group has its "golem": some entity that the group courts thinking they'll always have control over it but eventually destroys the group. And for nerds and their hobbies that golem is "normies". We can't help but try to get them interested in our hobbies and interests, and it always comes back to bite us.
Linux getting big meant professionals at big companies started developing Linux, and with that came HR and PR departments taking an interest in Linux development.
And with that eventually came Codes of Conduct.
I don't think that distro can physically exist, particularly since it's all spawned out of the framework Linus Torvalds created. Dude's just too much of an unlikeable fuck for anything he built to be user friendly.
I tried to get into Ubuntu back in the mid 2000s when it was being pitched as exactly the kind of user friendly distro you want. I had a full blown Linux guru as a roommate and it was a bunch of Computer Science majors in that appartment, but even with all of that going for me I ended up switching back to Windows after a couple semesters. Linux is just unfriendly by nature.
That said, I'm happy to see people driven away from it, so maybe you guys can keep ahold of that one after all.
Modern Ubuntu basically is that distro now and has been for at least a few years. It's not 100% problem-free as Windows but it's like 80-90% of the way there and you can run basically any Windows program or game without too many bugs or hassle trying to find an answer on Stack Exchange now.
The ironic thing about Linus is his disagreeableness used to be something people in his position aspired towards but is no longer "HR approved", and he had to recant a lot of it to stay in the good graces of his tribe.
Imagine being a self-made man in a way most of us can't possibly comprehend (in the sense that he has achieved immortality through his work) but still having to comply with arbitrary HR dictates made and enforced by useless people far beneath him. Well that's Linus.
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
His problem is his daughter is full blown woke