down with zealotry
September 7, 2004
I dont know about anyone else but i am really really starting to get sick of all the zealotry lately. I’m sick and tired of people coming into the channel looking for help with a disliked distro or application and people making fun of them for using it. I can understand its all in good fun, but think about this. You have a windows user or a Mac user that comes in the channel for the first time, because he wants to give linux a shot. Either going full time or as a dual-boot on their PC/Laptop. They want to use X distro and try getting it running doing things they normally do with other OSes that they are familar with. Instead of getting help, they get smart ass remarks and people being asses. So now said person gets discouraged and goes back to using what they are using before. With bullshit like that will just make it easier for peter to win.
What some people forgot with Linux and OSS in general, they get to use what THEY want to use and what THEY are comfertable using. If someone wants to run mandrake over debian, fine. If they prefer using windowmaker over GNOME, so what. People need to have more tolerance.
