Minimally Competent Linux Apps mdhughes.tech

@mdhughes but you are presuming that other users have the same requirements as you.

To take but one example - almost none of the people I know who use linux use twitter on the desktop. Why would you do that? That's not what a desktop is for. The few that do use it through bitlbee.

A torrent downloader, likewise, is a tool. Mine doesn't even have a UI, it sits on a headless server.

I'm not even getting into your nonsensical comments about LibreOffice. Don't like it? Don't fecking use it.

@dgold They don't use desktop apps because the few desktop apps they have are awful. It's a cycle of misery, but it can be broken by learning to make nice apps.

@dgold As for LibreOffice, people do need to read and write documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, for business or home, and LibreOffice is not a good solution.

@mdhughes yes, it is a good solution:

• It is affordable for people living in disadvantage.
• It doesn't require an internet to use it.
• It provides a feature-set complete enough that people can run businesses on it.
• It does all this with a fraction of the developer spend and reach of Microsoft and other tech-privileged companies.

Again, just because you don't like the look of something, you don't get to determine that "Its shit" for everyone.

@dgold Nobody running Linux is "in disadvantage", it's all rich white nerds who choose to live as hippies. Actual poor people, the 6 billion not in 1st world countries, just pirate Windows and Microsoft Office, and have a better office suite.

@mdhughes oh, seriously, get in the ocean.

Sincerely.

I honestly thought you were interested in having a polite discussion, instead you just continually fling shit at the bars of the cage of ignorance and privilege you've erected around yourself.

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@dgold You have not exactly been civil, and you're the one that's aggressive about Linux only being used your bug-eating way, not made useful to real people.

@mdhughes Civil? When have I been uncivil?

Oh, is this the new Civil 2.0 nonsense which means "Accept that I am correct and offer no countervailing opinion while I continue to insult and belittle other people ad nauseum"?

@mdhughes

In the last few responses and posts you have:

• Called all Linux users "Rich white nerds"
• Stated there are no "poor people" in the 1st World
• Conversely, stated that the entire population of the non-1st world are poor people
• Stated that everyone not in the 1st World pirates software
• Called Linus Torvalds "an incompetent bozo" apropos of nothing at all.
• Described all Linux devs as people who "suck goat anuses"
• Described me as having a "horrific anti-user attitude" based on a deliberate misinterpretation of a comment, used (of course) out of context.

I'd say "Check your privilege" but I'd be afraid of triggering you.

@dgold If you're not interested in the stated problem of the thread "Where are the non-Apple front-end devs?", there's no reason to argue indignantly and off-topic. Linux is not a messianic religion YOU are called on to protect from infidels, it's a mediocre OS from Finland.