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You didn’t get bitched out. But you should have based on your attitude. You’re asking strangers for help dude. Nobody owes you anything.
I was accused of "bitching and moaning" because I was presented with a solution that didn't answer the actual question I asked and I declined.
What would you call that?
No I'm not. I asked a very specific question and people keep trying to throw long-winded time-consuming solutions at me instead of actually answering it.
Several other people did actually answer the question though.
That's great because I'm not asking for anything.
I did, however, learn a valuable lesson though: Don't ask questions in a Linux community, because the answer is always the same: "just figure it out, in the most complex manner possible, or go fuck yourself".