so i got up this morning and
made my first cup of coffee grabbed me a
honey bun and then went to my computer
to read some stuff to prepare for the
day so i'm checking out various linux
news sites linux forums linux
communities and i noticed something most
linux users act like spoiled children
and by school children i mean they want
more they constantly want more more more
more right when i say spoiled child you
guys know what a a child is it's that
child that demands something and for
whatever reason some parents give their
children everything they ask for and it
really spoils the child because you know
the more they give this child stuff the
more that child wants right it demands
even more stuff and they become like a
crack addict right you know they become
addicted to demanding stuff and you
giving it to them i mean you guys see
small children in real life i mean let
me ask you a question
you guys that have children or you've
been around children maybe you got young
nieces and nephews grandchildren
when a a child is constantly asking for
stuff and you give them stuff is that
child more likely or less likely to ask
for some more stuff in the future right
more likely and that's kind of how we
have become in the linux community
because linux has become such a
fantastic operating system the best
operating system on the planet the most
features it does so much stuff and you
know it's it's really spooled its
community right because now linux does
so much for us we demand that much more
from it and because of that sometimes
us in the linux space i'll include
myself sometimes we don't act
appropriately right sometimes we don't
realize how how much like spoiled
children we sound sometimes making some
outrageous demands now i don't want to
imply that everybody in the linux
community that wants more out of linux
that's striving to make linux better
that these people are small children
because many of these people you know
will point out the flaws in linux
they'll point out areas where we could
improve and then those people are
actively trying to achieve those results
you know to achieve the desired result
those are not spoiled children the
spoiled children are the ones that
demand something out of linux you know i
need linux to do this and then they have
absolutely no interest in actually
trying to achieve that themselves uh in
many cases they wouldn't even know how
to begin they just want something and
they want it now right spoiled children
and while i find the people that act
like this annoying it does make me smile
though when i see these people on the
internet because
it is a sign that we're succeeding you
know the fact that we have so many of
these spoiled brats out there that's a
sign of linux's success because let's
face it linux is the most popular
operating system on the planet by far
countless billions of devices everything
from servers personal computers laptops
mobile devices all your phones all your
tablets uh internet of thing devices
appliances heck linux is probably
installed in your car it's installed in
your microwave like linux is everywhere
and because of that
we expect even more out of linux linux
was a garbage operating system that
barely did anything nobody would demand
anything of it nobody would expect
anything of it there are plenty of
operating systems out there that are
much more niche operating systems that
don't give you nearly the amount of
features of linux the amount of coverage
as far as linux is a really a jack of
all trades master of everything kind of
operating system where you know other
operating systems don't have this the
spooled mentality the spool brat
mentality for example i've never seen
a net bsd user acting like a small child
right because netbsd
much more niche operating system it
doesn't do a whole lot so it's users are
really not expecting much more from it
in the future i don't see any spoiled
haiku users out there for those of you
not familiar with that operating system
haiku is a free and open source
operating system it looks like something
out of the 1980s it's still a single
user operating system right
no one is demanding more from haiku even
windows users they don't act spoiled
because windows users they don't get
much from windows as far as
customization and flexibility windows is
one of those operating systems
it comes to you what you see is what you
get there's not much more to it right so
you can't really demand much more from
windows than what's already there so in
some ways linux being such a massive
success has also led to what some people
associate as a pretty bad community
around linux i actually think the linux
community is great i i just think it's
such a unique place because of again the
free and open source nature and just the
uniqueness especially when you contrast
it from proprietary operating systems
like windows and mac but
what do we do to get rid of this spooled
ungrateful mentality that many of us
within the community have and i'm going
to include myself in this because as i'm
recording this video i'm sitting here
thinking back and i have to evaluate
some of my past behavior too and if
you're watching this and you're thinking
back at some of the times where you've
demanded stuff you know out of the
community you know how do we correct
this problem how do we get around this
how do we solve this problem well i
think more of us need to start being
grateful for the things we have and this
isn't just about trying to improve one's
standing within the linux community i
really think that being grateful for the
things that you have
is truly one of the biggest improvements
that you can make in your life and more
of us need to start actively practicing
this it needs to be something that you
do daily on a daily basis you need to
make it a point to express your
gratitude to others to your friends to
your family your co-workers to anybody
that has done anything that you should
be grateful for in life actively express
that gratitude to others every day or if
you don't want to express it to others
express it in private maybe write it
down those of you that keep notes or a
journal or a diary make it a point you
know once a day maybe before bed jot
down two or three things that you are
truly grateful for maybe because of
things that happened that day that hey
you know what this was a really great
thing that happened to me today i'm
grateful for this and this thing this
person you know this this group of
people whatever it happens to be if you
make this a daily thing where you're
truly grateful about stuff every day
then naturally that ungrateful kind of
spoiled attitude will dissipate
unfortunately it's all too common in
humanity
all of us take way too much for granted
some of us take everything for granted
don't take anything for granted don't
take the luxuries you have in life for
granted don't take the love of your
family for granted and honestly don't
take the improvements and the joy that
linux has brought into your life for
granted
all right guys
peace