Comment by yoyohello13 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by yoyohello13 | Hacker News Reader

All I can say as a person using Linux exclusively for the last 10 years:

- You're using the wrong Linux distribution

- You're using the wrong Linux kernel version

- You have the wrong hardware

- You're using Linux incorrectly

- You're asking for too much

- Go debug or fix it yourself.

Edit: This is sarcasm by the way. These bullets come from the article.

In all seriousness though. I think another poster had the right idea. Linux requires a mindset shift. You must be willing to be a master of your own destiny. I've used Linux largely problem free for 10 years. I took some time to learn how to do things "the Linux way" but once I did it's been smooth sailing.

I recently have had to use Windows for work and it's annoying as hell. Every day after lunch one of my monitors just turns off and rearranges all my windows. On Linux, I could dig into the problem, and worse case just have a xrandr script to hack a solution together. On Windows I'm just SOL looking and dead Windows message board threads.

In part, all of this right here is why there's still a collection of people who don't consider Linux a viable alternative.

It's giving a mix of "You're holding it wrong" and Stack Overflow's "Question Marked as Duplicate"

That's an exquisite analogy.

>and Stack Overflow's "Question Marked as Duplicate"

Based on my experience on Meta, and various random Reddit threads where people complain: in like 90% of cases where someone complains that a Stack Overflow question was unjustly marked as a duplicate, I could go take a look and then write out a clear step by step explanation of not only how it is very obviously a duplicate by Stack Overflow's standards, but exactly how to apply the advice from answers on the target to the original problem.

Even if I didn't previously know anything about the technologies involved.

Please keep in mind that it is not the purpose of Stack Overflow to solve the problem you are currently encountering. The purpose of Stack Overflow is to answer a question that can be useful to others. If your program doesn't work, it is explicitly, by policy, your responsibility to debug first; the point of creating a Minimal Reproducible Example is to demonstrate that you have found the problem and have a legitimate question about why it is a problem.

Someone who closes your question as a duplicate is doing you a kindness. You immediately get answers and don't have to wait for someone else to write one. Closing duplicates is also doing everyone else a kindness, by helping to make sure that, when people use a search engine to find an answer on Stack Overflow, they all end up at the right place with the best-stated version of the question and the best answers for it. In many cases, the person who identifies a duplicate has gone out of the way to figure out the problem (despite an unclear explanation or an attempt to sneak in side questions about unrelated matters).

>- You're asking for too much

This is the reaction from Microsoft when I want my Windows clock to display this niche feature called 'seconds'

Careful, someone will take this seriously.

It's a shame you can't downvote submissions here, and flagging is not appropriate. We've heard these tired arguments a million times, if all of this gets fixed, the author will find another reason why he can't or won't switch.

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