I’m N+1

I was not expecting them to respond but I was not expecting my response to be deleted immediately. I was hoping for my response to be available for others to see so they could make an informed decision.

Yeah it’s frustrating because madthumbs (and you too) seem to know what they’re talking about to someone like me who is not an expert, but if madthumbs is not going to allow good-faith discussion, newbies who might consider Linux will only get one side of the story.

Linux is not perfect but the contributors are always trying to make it better and that perspective will always be missing from linuxsucks@lemmy.world.

I propose a new community called linuxsuckssucks@lemmy.world that just copy/pastes the posts from linuxsucks@lemmy.world and allows free discussion.

Agree with you 100%. After posting I read the sidebar and the rules make it very clear that it’s their fiefdom to run as they please and they don’t tolerate good-faith discussion. Such is the freedom of the fediverse. I don’t agree with their way of doing things but I respect that they are free to do so.

Still gonna block linuxsucks@lemmy.world and recommend everyone else do the same.

Semi-related: I wonder if it would be worthwhile to create a list of communities that most newbies to the fediverse should block from the get-go. Like a sort of a “there be dragons” list of places that most reasonable people would probably want to avoid.

Yes, though any time I’ve filled up my motorcycle in NJ the attendant will get the pump started and hand me the nozzle to fill up the tank myself.

They actually did away with that within maybe the last two years or so. I was visiting Oregon when people were first allowed to pump their own gas and it was a cluster fuck at the pumps because no one knew what they were doing.

I wear crocs so nail me to the cross.

I used an Apple wireless trackpad with Ubuntu many years ago, maybe 10? I had to do some work to get it to recognize gestures but I don’t remember what was involved. It worked great once everything was configured.

It’s possible that support has improved over the years and it might work out of the box though I haven’t tried recently.

Not sure how helpful this info is.

But I already have my pitchfork at the ready!

I’ve been a Ubuntu user since 2005. I’ve dabbled in other distros but it’s just what I’m familiar with so I keep coming back.