Tired of all the fighting?

[Timothy Howard]

Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired of seeing all the fighting between and in different distro's?  I used to enjoy going to message boards looking for those little nuggets of wisdom that I didn't know.  Some knew piece of software I hadn't used before.

Now it seems like all I see is people fighting about what should or shouldn't be included with a Distro, SystemD is the devil, pulseaudio is the devil the list goes on.

I enjoy learning new things and trying new projects but they seem to be few and far between because I have no forum to properly discuss things instead of fight about them.

[T Smith]

I agree, it does become unbearable. And if the beginning of the post even starts with those kind of complaints I tend to gloss over it.

Someone should write a browser extension that filters this out. :-P

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[Tom Williams]

Haters gonna hate. I personally try to ignore any of the flames as they generate no useful light. I always said in project meetings at work, if you are going to say something won't work, you must offer something you think will work.

[J. Brown]

I mostly use the forums for troubleshooting and avoid the politics. From text editors to package formats, Linux users have a tendency to argue for the sake of it. 

[Timothy Howard]

I am a fairly hardcore Slackware user so I frequent the Linuxquestions forums.  But lately it just seems like people are just constantly arguing over PAM, SystemD, Pulseaudio, LILO, UEFI, and the list goes on.  I also frequent the Arch forums because they are usually filled with a lot of good general Linux knowledge.  But the elitism over there is just becoming to much to bear.

I've started sticking to the blogs of developers that I know and some G+ communities that are mostly drama free.

[Micheal Kinney]

Distros are like creating games in the Atari days, any one could create one and there really isn't much quality control. The problem I have with Open Source is that there are so many flavors of things, so many forks, who can follow it all (especially when someone just didn't like one feature and created a whole new distro or software fork for it)? You also really don't have too many people who have die hard GNU/Linux philosophy or even understand the difference between gratis and FREEdom. Most of us just literally want free and don't get hung up on this software isn't "really" open source and all that. If you want to "seriously" use Linux for development, good luck trying to only install TRUE open source software and if you want a good desktop experience, good luck not installing propitiatory code like graphics drivers, certain document viewers, flash, and non-free codecs. But you find plenty of stubborn people who believe their way is the only way and that X reason or Y reason makes their distro better. I think it's all great and adds to the landscape and though a lot of Linux distros aren't polished, I think there are a lot of good ones and the merger of several philosophies of thought might make an amazing operating system. Though, I think a good note to make is that we actually need people who think they're ideas are better than others, it's what gives people motivation to create things but I'm not saying they're fun to talk to lol.

It takes all kinds.