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.
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.
You’re really that out of touch, aren’t you? Most people really can’t afford that. Once again, over 60% of the USA lives paycheck to paycheck. They can’t come up with $400 in an emergency without borrowing.
Sure, fine, I’m glad you can afford to not give a shit. I’m speaking to people who might not be so lucky.
I guess you also don’t care about Right to Repair Laws either, right? Corporations should just be able to charge us whatever and dictate to whom we can take products for repair, right?
A $10 charge isn’t going to destroy your life
I’m still wondering how the hell you got “hates tech and refuses to learn at of it” from “I like tech and gaming” that was commented by OP
Literally all I ever suggested was they were limiting their interest in tech by choosing to not be interested in how it works, since lots of tech runs on Linux.
Everyone else jumped down my throat and was like “Don’t make us learn shit, we’re happy being dumbfucks!”
Excuse the fuck outta me.
Finally, I literally work with people who can’t afford to go to Geek Squad or where-the-fuck-ever because it’s actually usually quite a lot more than $10 to actually get it fixed.