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●● ‘Linux’Hint (LinuxHint) is Promoting Microsoft, Windows, and Proprietary Software After Editorial Change/Handover (Updated)

Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 12:12 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Another typical day at ‘Linux’Hint

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Image: LinuxHint shills Windows

Summary: The above is what we’re getting this early morning in LinuxHint; it has been happening a lot lately. Microsofters infesting “Linux” sites is a VERY MAJOR problem. All the readers will go away sooner or later. Rafia Zafar, for instance, has been destroying ‘Linux’Hint by basically promoting the opposite of Linux. Others are doing the same, so it boils down to more than a single person. Every “howto” (e.g. Git instructions) assumes that the reader uses NOT LINUX but Microsoft, GitHub (proprietary and an EEE-style attack on Git), and of course WINDOWS. Are the site’s founders aware of this extreme loss of direction?

Here’s an example published 3 hours ago:

Image: Oracle and Windows

Another new example (added to RSS a few hours ago):

Image: Windows and Microsoft, proprietary

There have been like 50 others like the above lately (about Git, promoting Windows and Microsoft GitHub in a site with “Linux” in its name).

Sadly, a lot of other “Linux”-named and/or Linux-themed sites have been doing similarly mischievous things lately (many examples in 2022). About half a dozen of them — sites or blogs that we had long followed — resorted to outright linkspam, spamfarming, and other rogue “publications” (not due to the domains being hijacked, merely a change of agenda). We therefore had to remove those from the checking cycles.

Update: Only 2 hours have passed since publishing the above. Refreshing ‘Linux’Hint (RSS) again, we see lots more Windows, including Git manuals that are actually for Windows users (in a site called ‘Linux‘Hint)

Image: Assumes you use Microsoft, Windows, Github

It certainly seems like the people who run the site ‘Linux‘Hint do not use GNU/Linux.

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