Mastodawn

Users just want their computer to work with minimal fuss. They get told to try a Linux distro because it’s safer and faster than the alternatives, and the Linux desktop is totally ready for primetime now!

“Why do my games launch on my secondary vertical monitor? Why can’t I just pick a default monitor?”

“We aren’t implementing that because it’s from Windows. If you want your applications to launch on your main monitor go and use Windows.”

How the fuck can we expect to retain users when a nontrivial minority of developers seems totally fine treating them with such contempt?

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Simo ✔️

@chadmed maybe realize there is no collective we? There are people, some are decent, some are a*holes, in any generalized group; FOSS is no exception.

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James Calligeros Jul 3

@simo5

Put 40 Keynesians, 30 Georgists, and 10 Chicago school economists in a room, and tell them to design a taxation policy. You set the rules such that no policy is to be ratified unless 30 of the Keynesians, 20 of the Georgists, and 7 of the Chicagoans sign off on it. Do you think the _primary_ source of friction here is going to be 3 of the Chicagoans simply being annoying dickheads?

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Simo ✔️Jul 3

@chadmed I am not an economist so I do not understand the example, sorry.

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James Calligeros Jul 3

@simo5 They are three schools of economic thought. Keynesianism and Georgism can be thought of as roughly aligned, whereas the Chicago School is essentially everything the former two stand opposed to.

The idea here is not about the economics but rather having one group of people, on who's approval you rely to progress things, be staunchly opposed to the direction the rest of the group wants to go in on purely ideological grounds. The personalities of the people involved are not the main source of contention in these situations.