After I saw that issue, I attempted to build Ventoy from source. After making numerous modifications and getting only the first couple components built, I got tired of it and quit. I've made some modifications to glim and use that instead, although it's still not as easy as Ventoy. But I don't trust Ventoy if I can't build it myself.

Further, when @vkc@linuxmom.net made some criticisms of Ventoy in one of her YouTube videos, she was subjected to a harassment campaign, and others told her the same happened to them. That pushed me from not trusting Ventoy to actively distrusting it.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Further, when @vkc@linuxmom.net made some criticisms of Ventoy in one of her YouTube videos, she was subjected to a harassment campaign, and others told her the same happened to them.

What the fuck is happening to the world? Are we regressing or were we always this regressed and we've just given powerful tools to fucking chowderheads?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a subset of the Linux/FOSS/etc. community who are Conservative, misogynistic, racist, and/or otherwise general bigots. Compare the Ventoy-bros against the Elon-bros, and you'll see a similar pattern of behavior.

I don't personally understand it, since development is still sometimes seen as "work for weirdo nerds," so you'd think they would understand what it feels like to be rejected or bullied, but here we are. They manage to stay under the radar, because there's usually no reason to discuss politics or philosophy when you're debugging code.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There’s a subset of the Linux/FOSS/etc. community who are Conservative, misogynistic, racist, and/or otherwise general bigots.

right, the hackernews set...

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago

Don't know why you're being downvoted, hackernews is an awful site of smug, dumb software "engineer" tech bros with some of the worst takes on anything that isn't explicitly about how to code

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s the other way around I think. We are progressing. More voices are heard which “should” be a good thing. Right? Right…?

[–] SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I remember this thread! Before I saw this comment, I had already gone to look it up again:

Here's the initial post of Verionica's video on booting from ISO files: https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112905487325961707
And here's the post on 'The Ventoy conspiracy": https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112906968594601449

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

it's the opposite, actually: she got harassed because she didn't talk about it when talking about creating a bootable drive.