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Great, do whatever you want. Just shut the fuck up about it, nobody cares.

You should really take your own advice on this one. That "article" was juvenile.

I’m going to start this article off by saying that you don’t have to be born in the boomer generation to be a boomer. You can be a boomer by acting like one. Hate new stuff? boomer. Run a desktop from the naughties? Boomer

Why even bother having words at all if we’re going to redefine them for clickbait?

This is so incredibly cringe that its downright unreadable. Take your own advise, use whatever you want and shut the fuck up.

"I wrote a 30 paragraph article using only 60 words"

Uncharitability to those you disagree with, style without substance, and all built upon thought-terminating cliches.

This isn't helpful or enlightening or informative, it's entertaining but not in an interesting nor original way. It reminds me of 2010s Reddit memes where everything was about adding as many "fucks" as possible because our moms aren't supervising our internet time anymore. It espouses a consoomer mindset of "gotta have bigger numbers and shinier visuals because all that matters is appealing to lizard-brain."

And it's all couched in the obvious mindset that any criticism will be met with "ok boomer" (I'll almost be insulted if I don't get one) because being superior is more important than being right. Y'know... like a boomer?

You've got a point, focus on that: you can make the case that Linux fits your use case, or that certain mindsets within the Linux community are hindering progress. But please do so in a way that doesn't just lend itself to more infighting and drama. That shit is for shallow people who have nothing to contribute and only serve as the cultural detritus that destroys communities and community-driven projects.

Great, do whatever you want. Just shut the fuck up about it, nobody cares.

Then next paragraph…

I switched from Linux to macOS for a number of years and it was fucking awesome. Then my Macbook Pro became defective and I bought a PC and …

Well, okay. Great, why not write a whole article about your personal taste in software.

What do I use? Arch Linux.

BTW

Totally useless "article". You learn nothing, you have to navigate between poor writing with high usage of explectives. It's like reading a 11 years-old rebel child blog.

tdrl: he use Arch linux, boomers...

Wow edgy.

This article is an example of the "appeal to novelty" fallacy. "It's newer, therefore it MUST be better."

I'd argue running a laptop from the 00s is the least boomer thing to do. Buying a new Macbook every two years while complaining that you don't have enough money and joking about how you're spending your kid's inheritance is the boomer thing to do.

So yeah, Xfce looks the same as it did 10 years ago.

And?

Desktop environment is meant to launch apps and give me windows and maybe have a file manager. Xfce does that. It's a desktop environment.

Hey, "modern" desktop environment enthusiasts, if you bring Compiz back from the dead, give us luddites a call, will you? Ohhhh you kids should have seen it back in the day. Windows and Mac users saw Compiz in action and were, like, "wat." You don't get them to react that way to modern Linux desktops, no. And all that is lost now. Thanks Wayland.

This has already been deleted once. Reported as spam.

Your dissapointment about your own existence bleeds into the article, just shut the fuck up at this point :/

This is satire, right?

Old things bad, new things good. I write article that is satire about it.

I’m strong. I’m no boomer. Please love me.

cope cope cope

I mean, even my mother who runs kde 5 has a better desktop than the sad one this silly wannabe post. lol

I really hate this usage of the term, Boomer. Words mean things!

hey u sound a bit angy, is everything allgoods?

To quote the author himself:

Great, do whatever you want. Just shut the fuck up about it, nobody cares.

But then he proceeds to do the exact opposite and posts a vitriolic rant about how everyone who doesn't use what they use is, in their words, and idiot.

I've tried GNOME 45 extensively and I just don't see how it's better.

Even looking at the screenshots I don't understand how GNOME 45 is better than GNOME 2. It doesn't even LOOK better. You need extensions to get basic functionality like a window list and tray icons.

Then there's the bad parts, like every window now has different decorations, doesn't work with nvidia, etc.

There's nothing wrong with angryposting, but it needs a kernel of truth which this is missing.

Seems like you just found an excuse for your unnecessary invectiveness. You probably think you're funny or you're trolling. This is not even trolling, not even fourth-class bait material. Maybe you should try Kali, suits your attitude more.

Username checks out

Naughties...

Absolute trash.

Outside of the holier than thou attitude there is just such a lack of understanding why other people may want certain features.

The following is all being written by someone in their early 30s.

Stable builds? On my personal machines I use openSUSE to get my new features and software, but for my work I use stable systems. Down time costs me money, there is no way I would ever trust my enterprise solutions on a non stable distro. I would be asking to have my contracts terminated and lose money. My clients rely on my solutions to have as close to 100% up time as possible. I just can't trust a rolling release enough to put my income on the line for it.

What is the desire to dump perfectly good machines because they are not new enough. I wouldn't even call myself an environmentalist, but I can't stand to see the amount of perfectly good machines being eWasted because they hit an arbitrary age and are now "old". I have been using old enterprise rescue machines for years. My current laptop is nearly 8 years old. It has 20gb of Ram and a 512gb sata 3 ssd. It isn't playing any games, but it is more than capable to accomplish all of the dev work that comes my way, and lots of other media work too. I have a more recent desktop, but even then I usually run my desktop hardware for 7-10 years and just upgrade the pieces that need it and migrate those old pieces to my servers.

I also keep some old 1gb or less RAM machines around because it is just fun to work within limitations and have distraction free machines for completing non cpu intensive workloads. I even keep an old iBook around for the fun of playing with old powerPC chips and really challenging myself to make software that is modern but functions on extremely dated and limited specs.

And I managed to say all of that without saying "fuck" one time. Imagine that.

Edit: read more blog posts. It has to either be a troll or a child. I refuse to believe an adult writes such absolute trash. I was less edgy when I was 13. I cannot imagine any self respecting adult writing like that. If this is an adult, then I am getting "middle aged woman that also writes weird erotic fan fiction about teenage characters" vibes.

Read about half the article before getting tired of it. This is just complaining about people while doing the same thing but instead of “Old good, new bad” its “Old bad, new good”.

Just kind of contrarianism under a very thick layer of edge.

Hope this is satirical, cause otherwise I hate to say it but you're also a boomer.

It's not hip to hate on things.