Was anything before “Edit:” rude? Should I expect that everyone in the Linux community will reply to genuine barriers with contempt and downvotes? Because that’s what you’re saying of the reply to my original post.

You’re saying I would only get “more” downvotes for being rude, hence you expect some downvotes on a genuine list of concerns no matter what.

What a community! 🙄

On top of that, writing a second comment so you see this update.

I only have one drive, with secure boot and bitlocker active. You of all people, someone involved with Linux on Lemmy, should know what a recipe for disaster it would be to partition that drive. Given Windows’ proclivity for breaking everything when it comes to Linux and dual-booting, on top of being new to the scene, my concerns seem pretty fucking legitimate.

And yet the reception is cold downvotes and a mischaracterisation of my original post.

Great job you guys, surely the year of Linux will be any day now with that attitude 🙄…

I didn’t ask for help. Nor did I command anyone to help.

Yet people didn’t do the bare minimum of acknowledging the potential issues. They downvoted and hid their head in the sand.

I wish I could use Linux. But the barriers of entry for me are:

• drivers for a 2500x1600 OLED display
• drivers for the 5070 Ti on a laptop
• drivers for all sorts of things like the Lenovo Vantage and/or Lenovo gaming software
• the keybinds for changing refresh rate, turning on/off keyboard lighting, changing power mode on Windows for their gaming line

On another note:

• proprietary statistics software
• MTGO (“magic online”, not magic arena)
• BF6
• probably others that would break but I have no idea which as of yet