Nearly 100% FOSS developer teams suffer from exceptionalism and superiority complex

How can I put it so that you understand? Well, when I come to 100,002nd forum, bug tracker, github project, IRC channel, yada, yada, yada, in an attempt to get through to you, FOSS developers, and to report a bug or propose a feature, you more often than not lash out at me. Why you do it? Because you deem yourself infallible altruists who do the unwashed masses of the world a gigantic favor by dispensing your software on us.

Is that true? In some cases, it really is, and I do appreciate it. I always state it up-front: Thank you for devoting your time for the development! But more often than not it is not enough for you, and you do lash out at me.

Dear FOSS developers! You are not unique. You are not the only one. If you are too dumb to understand it, just open Yum, Dnf, Dragora, Apt, or whatever package manager you are aware of, and check the sheer number of Linux distribution packages. There are TENS OF THOUSANDS of them out there. Still, you demand that we register in your support forum, only to be told that we also have to register in your bug tracker, and only then you will bestow our bug reports with your divine attention.

We do not have time for that. You are one of tens of thousands. Once we register in your forum and report our issue there, you become aware of it. Demanding that we instead re-register and re-report is sadistic.

No one forces you to develop and include your software in Linux distributions. You do so for your own reasons. So be consistent and treat bug reports with respect, not disdain. Otherwise you sound hypocritical.

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Another Linux lie: we have WebCam software

No, you do not. The most that you have is software that can pump webcam capture onto the screen or file. Is this enough? For retards who pretend to be FOSS developers, it probably is. But for users, it is not.

Webcam software must be able to flip, mirror, or rotate images because, TADA, webcams are not always positioned the desired way, unfortunately. I challenge Linux FOSS "community" to point me at at least one example of webcam capture software that can do it.

Camorama - NO, Cheese - NO, Kamoso - NO, UCView - NO.

It is an epic failure like all of Linux is.

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Another Linux lie: we have brains

When I begged Fedora developers not to replace Yumex with the monstrosity called DNF Dragora, I was ridiculed, ostracized, and cancelled. They were right, and I was wrong. Their opinions were valid, and mine was invalid. That was around 2010 and Fedora 20. Fast forward 2023 and Fedora 36.

DNF Dragora cannot be resized vertically to less than about 900 pixesls. What does it mean? It means that on displays with less than that number of lines one cannot apply DNF Dragora actions because... TADA! the Apply button is at the very bottom. You are SOL.

I warned them. They did not listen. This is FOSS way of doing things. Congratulations, everyone.

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Mozilla foundation goes out of its way to mess users up

SOBs at Mozilla foundation made their Firefox update nagging dialog modal. Paired with their own or MATE bug that sometimes keeps it invisible, it means that a user may go bonkers as to why they are not able to use Firefox UI at all, until they notice some flickering in the top right corner of the screen.

This proves, yet again, that FOSS does not test their software at all. They code, compile, and release, and it is the user's problem to detect bugs, find the right venue to report them, register, learn all of the rules and codes of conduct, type up a report that will not tick off the rude and inept developer, and follow through until its resolution.

How much more energy does the humankind have to expend on fixing the FOSS bugs that the developers are so reluctant to test before they release?

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