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Being a buggy mess with tons of issues to fix is usually not a matter of pride.

Please let’s not pretend that makes sense. I’m loosing my mind here

OP uses community instead of explaining what they mean. They also oppose the growth of said community presumably because of some unexplained concerns which would likely be immediately clear if they would explain what they mean.

And the linked reddit thread actually suggests that OP is opposed to wider adoption because they want to be part of some Linux elite.

Linux adoption is real. THE linux community isn’t real. You can break down Linux adoption into more detailed metrics like Linux desktop adoption, Linux adoption among gamers, etc and those are all real things that we may or may not be able to put numbers on and may or may not desire to grow.

Then why not just talk about Linux adoption?

It bothers me because there is often little understanding or communication and sometimes even an antagonistic relationship between contributor communities and user communities. Users because they see themselves as presentative of THE COMMUNITY often think they get to tell contributora how they run the project.

With Linux as a whole it’s even more abstract since the Linux kernel development and distro development is so disconnected and most people don’t have a strong connection with the kernel or it’s development really.

So what does that leave for the Linux community. I think the comparison to the gaming community isn’t bad since while gaming is fine, making being a gamer an important part of ones identity is often very much not fine.

No. I don’t want it small. I just don’t want it to welcome fascists.

There is also not “the Linux community” there is thousands of communities of varying sizes.

I don’t think that it’s really surprising that the desktop that always saw indexing all your data as an essential task of your desktop environment would think making your desktop AI first is a good idea.