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  • reddit: linuxsucks 56,000 weekly visitors vs WindowsSucks 641 weekly visitors

    From DFS@nospam@dfs.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Jan 8 10:03:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy


    "Linux sucks, admit it fanboys!"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks/

    "Windows Sucks"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsSucks/


    There's hope for the world.
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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@OFeem1987@teleworm.us to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Jan 8 13:52:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    "Linux sucks, admit it fanboys!"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks/

    "Windows Sucks"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsSucks/

    Perhaps, like COLA, the linux reddits attracts more trolling assholes.

    Why?

    Because everyone knows that Windows sucks, so why bother?

    :-D
    --
    When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!"
    -- Turkish proverb
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  • From DFS@nospam@dfs.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Jan 8 14:17:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 1/8/2026 1:52 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
    DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    "Linux sucks, admit it fanboys!"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks/

    "Windows Sucks"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsSucks/

    Perhaps, like COLA, the linux reddits attracts more trolling assholes.


    56,000 weekly visitors to r/linuxsucks

    FIFTY SIX THOUSAND !?!?

    Who's doomed?



    Why?

    Because everyone knows that Windows sucks, so why bother?

    :-D

    Windows: the basis of your career for decades.

    If Windows sucked so bad, why did you never man up and try your best to
    find a Linux developer job?
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Jan 8 22:17:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    So, more people care about fixing Linux than fixing Windows.

    Is that a surprise? Because Linux is more easily fixed than Windows.
    Even Microsoft now concedes that.

    By a 100:1 ratio, even.
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Jan 9 00:06:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 13:52:08 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

    DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    "Linux sucks, admit it fanboys!" https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks/

    "Windows Sucks" https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsSucks/

    Perhaps, like COLA, the linux reddits attracts more trolling assholes.

    Why?

    Because everyone knows that Windows sucks, so why bother?

    :-D

    Admittedly, a lot of people insult it because hating on the competition
    makes them feel better about their own choice.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
    Pop_OS!
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Jan 9 04:20:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:17:10 -0500, DFS wrote:



    56,000 weekly visitors to r/linuxsucks


    Try r/linuxmasterrace

    It does have a chuckle every now and then.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/1otjm2z/ it_just_does_what_i_tell_it_to_do/


    If Windows sucked so bad, why did you never man up and try your best to
    find a Linux developer job?

    I don't know about Chris but I got the job I just retired from after 25
    years BECAUSE I could work with Linux. Most of the clients never tumbled
    to it but they were running Linux software on their Windows boxes,
    including an X server and Motif GUIs.





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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@OFeem1987@teleworm.us to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Jan 9 07:30:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    rbowman wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:17:10 -0500, DFS wrote:

    56,000 weekly visitors to r/linuxsucks

    Try r/linuxmasterrace

    It does have a chuckle every now and then.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/1otjm2z/it_just_does_what_i_tell_it_to_do/

    If Windows sucked so bad, why did you never man up and try your best to
    find a Linux developer job?

    I dunno, man, why did you decide to come back to COLA to whinge
    about Linux? OCD? Off your meds?

    I don't know about Chris but I got the job I just retired from after 25 years BECAUSE I could work with Linux. Most of the clients never tumbled
    to it but they were running Linux software on their Windows boxes,
    including an X server and Motif GUIs.

    DFS is just a sourpuss. You're damned if you don't use Windows,
    damned if you do use Windows.

    Doesn't even know what :-D means, apparently.

    In any case, I *did* develop a Linux project at work. It was fun.
    Porting our Windows project to Linux. The other Linux jobs were
    basically sysadmin on RedHat boxes, not dev jobs.

    And now I don't have to use Windows, though I do make sure my
    stuff builds on Windows, every so often.

    Toolchain on both? Bash, vim, Qt Creator, NSIS, git.
    The only difference is on Windows I use Mingw instead of the stock
    C/C++ tools on Linux.
    --
    Read terms and conditions.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Jan 10 02:21:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 07:30:10 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

    In any case, I *did* develop a Linux project at work. It was fun.
    Porting our Windows project to Linux. The other Linux jobs were
    basically sysadmin on RedHat boxes, not dev jobs.

    We ported our AIX product to Windows :) Obviously the jump from AIX to
    Linux was easy and most of us developed on Linux and tested on AIX. The
    game changed around 2000 when Windows servers looked a lot less expensive
    that new RS6000s. IBM helped the move by putting the Y2K patches into an
    OS that wouldn't run on older boxes.

    We had two sites that ran Linux server side because the site
    administrators liked Linux. When they left, so did Linux. I never thought
    our marketing people pushed Linux too hard. As more sites migrated to Esri that was the final nail. Esri is very Windows-centric. They made a half-
    assed attempt with a Java environment that sort of brought COM to Linux
    but it was short lived.

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