Linux Bashing 101 - A Editorial Digital Ebola Let's talk about something that has been bugging me for the last year. I meet lots of people, both online, and in real life, in the industry and out, all computer people. Most poeple do not realise this about me, that I get around. Some of the nicest people I have met through these channels. That is why what I am about to say may shock you: the linux community sucks. I say this as a Linux advocate, as someone that has had contact since late 1995 and as someone that has ran and continues to run as his operating system of choice. Sure, I have other machines, and they all run a different form of UNIX, but my main workstation, my baby, runs Linux. And this knowledge has catapulted me into a thriving industry working with Linux and UNIX in general. I get to play with Linux everyday, be it at work or at home. I could never do anything else. I love my career. Almost everyone I have ever met in the Linux community, save for a handful of people, are complete assholes. I say this without remorse. It is true. Here is your first clue that they are assholes: ever ask a Linux person how to do something? He will probably bash you for not reading the man page, or the how-to. Even I am guilty of this. But what if you did read the man page? and the how-to? What then? I help lots of people with lots of things. It is my job, and some how that carries to my personal life, and to my online life. I do not mind as much. I can do almost anything in Linux with ease, even if I have not learned how. Why? I read the man pages, I read the how-to's and perform general research. I do not consider this special, I just consider this reading. But some people do. Some people want a medal for this. You know the type, idling in some #linux channel somewhere, the "we are here to help" type. Yet, they don't give a damn about what you have to say. If they don't know it, they will act like they do, so they won't be looked down on. I have caught several people in this. Why do these people do this? Who knows, most likely to get into some developers pants, or to be a general scene whore. The developers themselves for the most part, are the same way, again save for a few. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. So, now I have hurt your feelings because you thought you were cool that you could run a Linux box. BOOHOO! I will tell you why you are not special. For one, you have just copyed the latest trend in today's computing. Maybe you started several years back. Thats okay, Linux is the worst chain letter ever created. Two. Linux itself is a great operating system, and I love it. But the community has stolen almost everything from BSD, or sad to say Microsoft. Before you go off saying that I am off my rocker, think about this. You want plug n play support? You want USB support? You want full hardware support in the OS? These are things that have been pushed by the devil himself. In 1979, IBM was the devil, and Microsoft was out to slay them. In 1999, Microsoft became the devil, according to Linux advocates, and I bet in 2009, when and if Linux has taken the market, there will be someone else there to slay THEM. Think I am crazy? No. I am just tired of all this in-fighting between different distro's, all of these posuer people that act like they want to better humanity by promoting Linux, yet they talk down to any person they don't know, and I am tired of watching these people create this image of Linux. They don't deserve to wreck the community. What gives them the right? Linux has stolen everything they need, or will need. Just like Microsoft. Don't act holier then thou, just because you are one of the 13 million that know how to work the thing , because soon, EVERYONE will know how to work it. Then what will make you special? hmmmmmm?