The Linux community is huge and diverse. One person's opinion shouldn't keep you away from the community, anymore than having a comic-con attendant be rude in

The Linux community is huge and diverse. One person's opinion shouldn't keep you away from the community, anymore than having a comic-con attendant be rude in the grocery store should keep you from comic-con. Also I don't know how you get that GP is "gatekeeping" with their comment. I don't see anywhere they said you shouldn't be able to run Slack as an app, merely that they personally don't do it and they are very surprised that other people do. I also don't see where they have any power to limit you, should they even want to (which most Linux people don't want to limit anybody). Can you elaborate more on why you feel this is gatekeeping? I also use the Slack app (on Fedora). I much prefer it to a web browser because of the reasons you mentioned. Keyboard shortcuts, multiple workspaces, etc. It's also nice to just have it in it's own process so when it gets memory hungry I can kill it, and I don't have to deal with Slack tabs. The beauty of Linux is the diversity IMHO. GP isn't wrong, you're not wrong, I'm not wrong. Linux is about flexibility and power, and empowerment of the individual (especially the user). Here the user is always right, and I love that. It's where all hackers should live IMHO (but I'm not trying to force anybody to Linux, you do you :-D)