I like to help in support forums for various things that I am interested in. I am not paid for it. I don’t do it for glory. I don’t do it for popularity. I am just interested in sharing my knowledge with others so that they might be able to do something that they were unable to do before.
I am not going to claim that Linux is the perfect OS and that anyone can use it. I think it just “makes sense” myself, but I also have a machine running Windows Vista that I use as a PVR, and I actually tend to spend more time on my iMac in OSX Leopard than I do in my Ubuntu install. I have the mindset to use whatever you want. I don’t preach Open Source. I am not a Apple fanatic. Yet, more than once, it has been the case that, when someone is frustrated in the Ubuntu Apple Users’ Forum (as well as elsewhere) they threaten to ‘leave’ Linux… to go back to Windows, or OSX, or whatever.
This is for you, the “Help me or I’ll quit” whiners and the “why doesn’t it work” complainers. Nobody cares. Nobody in the forum is forcing you to be there. We are all there on our own time helping you just because… If you think there is something better for you, go for it. There is no reason you should force yourself to do something you don’t want to. Saying things like that only makes people want to ignore you because they will not help you if you don’t want it.
Secondly, specifically concerning Linux-On-Mac, quit complaining that things don’t “just work” or complain about how difficult it is. Guess what? The Apple engineers don’t sit around and pick and choose hardware that they know is 100% working without problems in Linux. On the contrary, they don’t care! They are not building hardware for Linux, they are building hardware for their own, proprietary OS which DOES work 100%. If you want hardware that is “easy” in Linux, buy a machine that is designed to run Linux. There are several vendors that build Linux compatible hardware, and there are several “compatibility lists” out there if you want to consider something that is not designed for Linux. Believe it or not, there are components of Apple hardware that do not work in Linux without some work. Get over it. If you want to run Linux on incompatible hardware that is what it takes. Sorry.
Whiners:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4818978&postcount=1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4906737&postcount=15
Related:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749314
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=753548
Tags: complain, Linux, Mac, open source, OSX, Ubuntu, whine
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