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There must be a word for people who complain relentlessly about a brand or company but keep going back to it anyway.

• Razengan 4y ago
  Helpless? Not having a choice?
• OedipusRex 4y ago
  Stockholm Syndrome.
• whywhywhywhy 4y ago
  People with absolutely no other option. Linux is fine if you're a developer, but if you're a gamer or artist that needs real GPUs then you're stuck on Windows.
  • ahelwer 4y ago
    Gaming is changing very rapidly now that Valve is investing real resources into the platform to support the steam deck.
    • AlexandrB 4y ago
      I think what Valve achieved is amazing, but we're nowhere near major publishers targeting Linux as SOP. That means that if Valve loses interest in the Steam Deck you're probably going to see game compatibility for newer titles start to degrade. I think there's kind of an ironic downside to Valve's approach as well. Proton is so good that there's little incentive for developers to support Linux natively - they can just target Windows and rely on Valve to fix it. Still, this is the best that Linux gaming has been in my lifetime.
  • lostmsu 4y ago
    > Linux is fine if you're a developer Eh. I still don't want to waste my time fixing boot issues. And still prefer multiple screens to 1, which does not work well yet.
    • Shared404 4y ago
      > And still prefer multiple screens to 1, which does not work well yet. I see people say this all the time, but I use multiple screens on linux on multiple distributions, across intel/AMD/nvidia, and on voth X and Wayland without issue. Am I missing something?
      • lostmsu 4y ago
        Do they have the same DPI?
        • Shared404 4y ago
          They don't, in any of the cases. I do get annoyed occasionally by the difference in window size between monitors, but I ~ never have a window overlapping the boundary so it doesn't impact me.
  • Shared404 4y ago
    > but if you're a gamer or artist that needs real GPUs then you're stuck on Windows. The Steam Deck would disagree with the first half of that, and I spend an awful lot of time gaming on Linux with the exact same "workflow" as Windows gamers. Can't speak for artists, though my understanding is that it's Adobe, not Windows which has them stuck.
    • whywhywhywhy 4y ago
      SteamDeck is a step in the right direction but let’s not pretend it’s even 1% of PC gaming. > Adobe Adobe, Maxon, Autodesk, etc before we even get into the plug-in ecosystems. Believe me I’d be running Linux if I could.
• lotharcable 4y ago
  "Consumers". This is the difference between "consumer" and "customer". A customer has control over their money. They make choices that benefit themselves and producers must compete with one another for their money. A consumer is just somebody whose job is to not only eat the shit shoveled at them, but work their ass off and live in debt for the joy of eating it. But, don't worry, the government will step in and give you "consumer rights" and protect you. Lol.
  • alophawen 4y ago
    Your absurd quote usage does not give words a new meaning, you know?
• haunter 4y ago
  Like the HN commenters?
• nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Abused. Morbid codependency is a common enough pattern in domestic situations. What happens in tech sometimes looks a lot like that.
• themadturk 4y ago
  "Trapped" I believe is the word you're looking for.