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.
Just gonna go out on a limb and say most cheap tech projects are probably running on some open source code.
You are limiting yourself a little bit by not being at least slightly interested in it.
Classic Linux propagandist move
To point out reality?
“I like tech, but I don’t actually give a shit about how any of it works” is a really weak take.
Not really
Most people don’t care how their shit works, they just want it to work. People like OP, who seem to have a semi-casual outlook on it aren’t going to need to know how or why anything works.
Then they don’t “like tech.” They like toys made with tech.
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.