I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.
Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.
And?
That describes 95%+ of the population. I’m a software developer and feel largely the same way as OP. You don’t need to know the intricacies of something to enjoy using it.
Stop gatekeeping shit because people don’t want to be as invested in it as you.
OP is here bringing up how they implicitly don’t care about how their stuff works. We’re not gatekeeping shit except the obvious answers to the stupid questions that will inevitably arise.
Be ignorant! Go! Run! But if you want to complain about it, well then we have a problem.
Please show me where OP says that, as their comment history doesn’t indicate anything of the kind being said. This sounds like a fabrication you’re making up
Except they’re not saying that.
They said they don’t care about Linux but are interested in tech and gaming. Those things are not the same thing.
Look man, I get where you’re coming from, I really do. I don’t want to know how everything works in my gas-powered motor vehicle.
The thing is, I need a car for quite a lot of things, so whether I like it or not, there’s a lot I’ve learned about automobiles out of pure necessity to function in the USA.
The thing is, we do rely on modern computer and communications technology in much the same way that we rely on transportation. These are no longer “wants,” they are “needs.”
Choosing to not know anything about motor vehicles means I’ll be dealing with more maintenance, more cost, and product that loses value more quickly due to me not knowing how to properly maintain it.
Frankly, it goes the same with tech. The more you choose to not know about it, the less you know about properly maintaining it. Not everything runs on Windows, and even Windows needs regular maintenance. The less you can maintain yourself, the more you rely on others doing it for you, usually at a high cost.
And that’s why we think it’s important for people to care at least a little bit about how their tech works.
Cool. But that really doesn’t make any sense and has next to no relevance.
The majority of people with cars don’t know how they work beyond the barest basic understanding. I’d wager 90% at least of car owners couldn’t change their own oil if they tried, and that’s completely ok.
You don’t need to know anything about how your tech works for it to work. They are absolutely wants. There’s no need to know at all.
The average user doesn’t need to know Linux. They don’t need to know how things work under the hood. It makes absolutely no sense to invest time into something you’re not interested in for absolutely no benefit
You clearly have never been in poverty or struggled to afford anything, like maintenance on your vehicle, if you truly think it has no relevance.
Over 60% of people in the USA work paycheck to paycheck, meaning this matters financially to over half the USA.
And how is that relevant to this conversation at all?
There’s no relevance whatsoever about car maintenance to knowing how your software works. There’s not a single bit of parallel that can be drawn without massive stretches like you’ve been trying to make
So if your computer stops working while you’re job hunting and you don’t know how to fix it, it’s not a problem? That’s not a need the same as transportation?
Quick google search, if that doesn’t result in an easy fix, bring it to a repair person. They’ll often do diagnostics free or for a small fee.
It’s the exact same thing the majority of the country does for their cars. If something stops working, they bring it to have someone who knows that they’re doing to take a look at it.