The great thing about Linux is if something has weird behavior and you’re already exhausted all possible options to solve it, it is still possible to figure it out on your own because the source code is available.
I still don’t know how windows people figure out how to fix such and such problems on windows with some registry entries. Did they ask a Microsoft employee, or did they mess around with the registry blindly until it’s magically fixed?
I’m not a super casual user, but there’s no way in hell I’m going to try to dive into source to try to understand a bug in my OS. I’m just going to work around it and never think of it again.
You may feel that way, but not every power user is like you. Linux distro is not a monolith, it’s made up of thousands of small components made by different people and organizations. If you look at some of those components source control (e.g. on GitHub or GitLab), you’ll see a large portion of pull requests are done by their users who found bugs and decided to submit a fix themselves. For example, just look at how many pull requests libgweather got, and they’re mostly submitted by gnome users who were mildly annoyed with the weather app.
The great thing about Linux is if something has weird behavior and you’re already exhausted all possible options to solve it, it is still possible to figure it out on your own because the source code is available.
I still don’t know how windows people figure out how to fix such and such problems on windows with some registry entries. Did they ask a Microsoft employee, or did they mess around with the registry blindly until it’s magically fixed?
I’m not a super casual user, but there’s no way in hell I’m going to try to dive into source to try to understand a bug in my OS. I’m just going to work around it and never think of it again.
You may feel that way, but not every power user is like you. Linux distro is not a monolith, it’s made up of thousands of small components made by different people and organizations. If you look at some of those components source control (e.g. on GitHub or GitLab), you’ll see a large portion of pull requests are done by their users who found bugs and decided to submit a fix themselves. For example, just look at how many pull requests libgweather got, and they’re mostly submitted by gnome users who were mildly annoyed with the weather app.