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What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn't great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help
The web was pretty small in the '90s
I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars
Frankly, still one of the better ways to waste time on the internet
StackOverflow
It was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge.
Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.
Ah, software developing nerds and expertsexchange. A story as old as time.
It starts with innocent questions, then thigh highs during long coding sessions and... you know the rest. It's all in the name! ๐
Expert Sex Change
Yay! You got it! ๐
Go to any linux forum or help site today and you can experience it right now.
"Oh, someone had the same problem" as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP's problem wasn't actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. ๐
What I love is when the thread is concluded by saying the problem was solved by a patch 10 years ago. OP says "just upgraded, it works!" But here I am in the future and the problem is still happening.
Why would you want to X? Dont X. Problem solved ๐
After being told (at length) the answer was in the very long complex documentation, I said I had tried to find it but couldn't piece it together. And posted some of the sections I had looked in. Then my interlocutor said there is no reason why I should want to do such a thing.
"Please mark your thread as SOLVED."
$currentYear was meant to be year of the Linux desktop! Why isn't it?? ๐ก Those oafs should be on here by now
Edit: it really highlights the two kinds of patriots. "My country is the best country, anyone criticising can get away from us" and "I am proud of what my country has and has achieved and I want it to be even better; here's how we can make it better because we lack X,y and z"
Windows is popular
According to many Linux users, Windows isn't Linux (Which just means they don't want to fix X cause it's not a problem for them)
Therefore, Linux isn't popular.
I've unironically seen people in forums say that Linux doesn't need to grow, that it already acvomplishes its purpose which I guess is serving a bunch of specialized geeks. They don't think mass adoption will bring anything good, as if FOSS could be enshittified instead of getting more support from those interested in contributing to something that works.
To me it feels like the ultimate "fuck you I got mine". It would be different if they said something like "we would like to do this, but we lack the resources". That would be understandable, but they appear to be straigth up hostile to adding stuff that would get more people to use Linux. It feels like classic gatekeeping (which is dumb cause Linux can't enshsittify).
There's always someone willing to tinker, if these people grow up with Windows, I think the tinkering "window" might be lost or wasted on a restrictive OS. But who would want to tinker in order to get working something that should work already? Tinkering should be fun and optional, not a task scheduled at every tuesday.
You're right. I updated my post just before your reply.
I spent some time in the mid 00s installing various modification programs on windowd to modify it with stupid shit I found on deviantart. It would have been better if I got to do it on Linux.
Although some enshittification is happening for certain viewpoints on Linux, with some propriety things being allowed and the systemd DOB debacle, and AI on fedora.
Huh? AI on Fedora? Who is fumbling here? How is it possible for an OS not seeking profit or responding to shareholders to enshittify? Is someone looking for a new and easy way to do some tasks and giving up control on the process?
That smiley at the end. I laughed. ๐
As a masochist, I enjoy the freebsd forum
*freebdsm
It was right there.