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These thumbnails are also the reason why people stay away from Linux. How is the little girl relevant to your question?

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Couldn’t possibly agree more. One of the biggest barriers to sharing my enthusiasm for Linux with my friends is filtering out all of the cringey anime weeb shit that somehow gets posted along with it. Why does open source software need to be associated with creepy drawings of little girls? Absolutely the worst vibes.

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It’s understandable when it comes from niche programs with solo devs. You are likely to be a degen when you spend your whole day in front of your computer. So you likely also have degen habits like the one here. But if it’s from group of devs then yeah that’s straight up irritating.

Also you in the sense not you. English not my main language.

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Hur durr… You have different interests… Therefore degenerate…

Do you even realize how incredibly stupid the whole concept of tribalism is?

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She uses arch btw

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18 points

Yes I do

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Idk, I feel like gatekeeping is a bigger problem than anime thumbnails.

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I would have to disagree. What you are saying is toxic communities that reply RTFM to every question like arch or gentoo. Those aren’t beginner friendly distros. Mint, ubuntu, pop, fedora all have wonderful communities and quick support.

Windows is more documented. Not better but more. So when someone migrates to linux they panic because they can’t find resources like they used to do. How to fix this? Just give it time. More windows enshittification, more migration, more questions in support, more answers. No more gstekeeping like feeling.

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What you are saying is toxic communities that reply RTFM to every question like arch or gentoo.

Im active on arch communities and i’ve never seen this kind of message, most of the time they give you a hyperlink to a specific chapter of the manual so you know exactly how to fix your issue, not just copy pasta.

Windows is more documented. Not better but more.

Not at all but ok.

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The gatekeeping I was referring to is giving people shit for being weebs, furries, etc. etc. Feels skeezy and moralistic. One of my favourite things about the Linux community is how openly eccentric so many people are. Even if it isn’t my aesthetic it’s way less contrived than the bland wastelands that corporate culture generates.

It wasn’t really relevant to your question, but you do you, weeb OP.

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from the thumbnail and title text i thought i was browsing 4chan

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The average person finds these creepy, and so you’ll keep the average person away.

I personally don’t get it either, it does look like a 6 year old girl to me and it seems completely off-topic, but I don’t question it so long as it’s not sexual in nature.

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maybe it’s a good thing these blind haters of anime stuff aren’t nearby

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Anime fans, despite counterintuitiveness, have greater average IQ that not anime fans.

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Lol source pls

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Personal experience. Go search for linux users among football fans. Both footballs. You won’t find as often.

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