gabriel (2 inches taller)

it's a pithy slogan and yeah the community vibes are rancid (on windows you have gamers writing most of the blogs though). It scares a lot of people who could use it to help them. it probably made me take way longer to get back to it because for about a decade I thought I'd need to memorize more, because my experiences were pre-online resources really existing.

but.

you have more problems on Linux, sure, but they're smaller. You can resolve most of them in an hour or two as long as you have Internet, but on Windows good luck finding it or having it be an easy fix.

you need to know more at first, a lot more if you aren't familiar with command line interfaces. In exchange for far less intractable problems over the life of the machine.

And for the things that fail, you need to know less overall because they're all made of the same parts. Your skills fixing one thing means you're faster when others come up. sure, packaging is a mess often and setting up stuff outside of package managers takes more work, but mostly because you're choosing where it dumps it's files.

config flags for your apps suck, but you'd be doing similar in windows -- the reason you need to use them in the first place is windows doesn't support it in the first place, so you wouldn't have the problem there, but you also wouldn't have the software. such is the cost of absolute power.

When windows fails, parts of your system gradually just stop working until you can dedicate a weekend to learning how to fix that very specific problem.

genuinely, learning one of my favorite singers was gay?? awesome stuff, makes the album sweeter to listen to.

he is too cute

i LOVE when people say rebug but i just typed it out and deleted it because i felt ridiculous. it was like going to a restaurant and having to order Slobby Joes Hog Spanking Fuckface Ribs by name. this is what separates the weak from the strong