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Dude, honestly I’ve gotta drop this conversation at this point if you’re going to “well ackshully humans are primates” me right now. I obviously wasn’t referring to humans, and you’re just being needlessly obtuse about what i clearly meant. It’s like you’ve never heard of inference or made an educated guess based on easily observed data. Do you wake up in the morning and check the weather to see if it’s going to be 10c or 40c? Or do you make an educated guess based on your location, weather trends, and the time of year? Do you wait for a peer reviewed study to come out first to decide how warm you should dress for the day?
Lemmy is tiny, it’s right there in the sidebar of every instance in the user counts. If reddit is a world stage, lemmy is a collection of dive bars in the industrial zone the next town over. Obviously I don’t have any data. We could quite possibly just ask every account right now what their political leaning is. How about it? I’ll start with the A name accounts, you start with Z, we’ll meet in the middle and we’ll get our data in about a week.
I’ve used a couple of distros for work and as a “well lets try it out” and it absolutely does not appeal to me. I think it takes a specific mindset for Linux to be the OS of choice. I think the people who have that specific mindset often don’t realize how different their specific mindset is from the wider world.
Unironically, I think if you love linux you’re probably just a very tech literate individual who has a higher capacity for learning and intelligence than the majority of people. Linux savants can preach all day every day that it’s “not that hard” or “easy to learn” but I think while you lot are smarter, and honestly more capable than those of us who stick to Windows, I think the same things that make Linux stick for you also contributes to the lack of understanding for why other people don’t enjoy it.
When someone tells me they use linux as their daily driver my immediate assumption is they’re either way smarter than I am even if they don’t realize it or have some type of neurodivergence (adhd, autism, etc,).
Y’all are built different and should be proud of that.
EDIT: Unless you’re the type of person who uses Linux purely for the “clout” you think it brings you. Then you’re just a poser with an “imverysmart” complex