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@Cyrillic @Suiseiseki @waifu It's been a long time, so let's consult the copypasta again:

FOSSTard, FreeTard or GNUTard, not to be confused with a FOSSoid, is an insufferable person whose most prominent identity is Free Software advocacy (#FOSS advocacy) done the wrong way. These people can be identified online by the GNUJihad :gnujihad: flag, or by the language they use when writing their long posts about how Free Software is better than proprietary software in every way. Usually by writing "Total proprietary death" or it's acronym "TPD" somewhere in the post.

Instead of advocating for practical Free Software use, they support only 100% Free Software solutions while ignoring how broken and unusable they can be. Thus eliminating any potential new users of Free Software they could have convinced otherwise.

I agree that absolute normies and crybaby devs should be gatekept, but your way of gatekeeping makes any switching to Linux a pain for newcomers, because simply recommending 100% free software solutions is not a solution, because it results in broken functionality 90% of the time. Not to mention that this way doesn't gatekeep the crybabies that are actively making everything worse, because they are immune to this type of "crying" about "muh GNU free software" for to me unknown reasons. So you either take the proper RMS route of advocating against proprietary software while acknowledging that somewhat free is still better than not free at all. Or you go the Suiseiseki GNU/Retard route and cry about food/alchohol/F-Droid/loadable firmware being proprietary and making yourself look dumb almost all the time. There's no in-between.

And before Suiseiseki goes on his "my dual Opterons from 2007 work just fine, skill issue" rant, here's something. Nobody actually cares.

PS: I still didn't add GNU/Glowies to the copypasta :meowSad: