Telemetry helps developers find bugs, prioritize features, understand hardware, prevent regressions, and improve performance. -LiGNUxers: HATE IT! If you want your software used by LiGNUxers, don't use telemetry!
Don't you dare proprietary that! How dare you try to make money off of the software we don't donate to! Linux users bully developers into avoiding SDKs, proprietary APIs, codecs and even firmware! -Even when they're required for hardware acceleration, GPU support, audio/ video compatibility, anti-cheat, and modern peripherals.
-Don't you dare use Electron, GTK, Qt, SystemD, Flatpak, Snap, Python either!
Developers are expected to support every distro, package format, init system, display server, audio stack, file system, etc. If not, they're seen as not caring about Linux! Developers rightly burn out, get pissed off, proprietary devs avoid Linux entirely, and users blame everyone except themselves.
Anyone who’s spent time around desktop‑Linux culture has seen this play out with repeating patterns.
It’' a community that wants more users but treats every new user that isn't posting a 'I just switched to LiGNUx and love it!' or a fetch screen like an intruder.
"Linux is easy bro", "it just works", "it's better than Windows in every way" swiftly pivots to "well, Linux isn't for everyone", and "your fault".
Instead of uniting around a few polished grand-daddy distros, the cult celebrates 400 distros! -There's always one in that shit pile that you haven't tried. You haven't confirmed that that other one is indeed shit yet! "IT'S NOT LINUX FAULT!" -Or have you tried every combination of package formats, init systems, display servers, and audio stacks? -No? -Then how dare you blame Linux!
Problems are treated as personal attacks. Bad nVidia support, broken suspend, inconsistent theming, missing apps, regressions in updates all result in "shill", "troll", "too stupid to use Linux" accusations (despite all being valid enduring issues).
The culture rewards cleverness over usability. If something is complicated, obscure, or requires editing a config file, it’s considered “powerful”. If something is polished, or simple to use, it's considered "bloated." Complexity is a badge of honor instead of a problem to solve. -But Linux is 'ready'. -You're just expected to know Sudoedit, Timeshift, the commands used in the script you need for audio, the hardware you can and cannot use, etc..
A little honesty upfront and a little understanding after the fact, would prevent the whiplash. LiGNUxers can't even leave us alone in a (their term) 'hate sub'.