Sounds like another dweeb that’s butthurt because they thought they were special and smart for being able to click “next, next, next, finish” on an OS installer and now that everyone else is doing it they no longer feel special. Cry harder. You see a lot of this type of gatekeeper from the mediocre. It was “their thing” and now that everyone is doing it, it’s no longer “their thing” and they hate it because it was all they had.
In short, I want Linux to work for me and other technically-minded enthusiasts […] Is this an elitist view? I don’t think so.
Is it elitist to gatekeep Linux for technically minded enthusiasts? Yes.
Especially when they end the article with “I for one hope it never does”. Definition of gatekeeping and toxic elitism.
Without RAM and hard drives, it will be the ‘Year of No Desktop’.
To be fair, people sticking to older hardware has potential to increase linux adoption
My mom is a Linux user because she couldn’t upgrade to Win11.
Luckily I got her set up on LibreOffice like 6 years ago, so pretty much nothing is different for her.
