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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33746300
The worst thing about Linux is its users
Who "won't" switch to Linux? Emigrating to Linux is just not as simple as these people believe.
Some of us have our entire lives on Windows that will take forever to migrate with all the obligations and the crushing weight of work that we have to handle in our day to day life.
How society would thrive if we had true freedom.
It's not moving to a different city or country lol. Upload what you need to a cloud and put linux on a usb and install. If this takes you longer than a week.... Then idk.
Only those apps that aren't linux compatible is a pain the ass
For a lemmy user it would probably take a night, like 4 hours
For people who don't know how to choose a boot drive it will take longer than a week to get the computer to where they had their windows machine, and probably like 20-30 hrs of work.
I literally don't know how to use Linux and I'm a moron
Luckily linux does 95% of the work for you nowadays! Follow a 15 min tutorial on youtube, and pick Zorin or Mint. No configuring drivers, no setting up grub. Modern distros truly are a Penguin blessing. Want software? Open de software center and click install!
"I wish I wish upon a star for a multi billion dollar monopoly to self-regulate"
I mean, tbf, your other option is a violent takeover of the Microsoft corporation, complete with rifles and grenades and stuff, so like, by comparison "fucking install mint or fedora ffs" sounds a lot easier.
I mean yee I agree "microstof should just stop asshole," but good fucking luck with that..
Finally, someone is starting to get a hint of what needs to happen with all those monopolies.
No, well guy is right. Trusting capitalists to leave money and power on the table for ideals is naive at best.
It's also pretty easy these days.
Thereβs barely anything you βneedβ Windows for anymore. Especially as something like 99% of most peopleβs PC usage is web (including cloud-hosted Office type apps).
You say this, but you haven't met all the programs I have to use for work.
The solution to this is to organize with your coworkers and seize the means of production, and then vote to use only Free, Libre, and Open Source Software from now on. Easy peasy.
I work in IT support, the options for good, and Foss software on the technician side of most RMM tools.... Vanishing small, if any.
There's a lot of platforms that support monitoring and management on the client side, but when it comes to technician side tools, GFL. Most vendors don't even mention it at all, fewer support anything other than Windows. FOSS isn't concerned about the IT support folks because almost all FOSS is made by people who can build their own computer and don't need support.
That's why the NSA classifies Linux Journal readers as extremists.
I mean, at this point if you aren't already on a list you are probably a bad person.
My first genie wish is for the EU to declare Windows 7 public domain and set up a team to maintain security and driver updates for it.
What about instead working on react OS? (Not made in react)
can you even do that without Microsoft saying ok (or suing you) ?
No. Even if EU went full on dictator and tried, how would they get the sourcode? :D Unless the US would force Microsoft to hand it over, it would not happen.
sourcode
I know this is a simple typo, but I think its fitting.
Thats even the funny part, you cant.
The reason they skipped Windows 9 was some ancient piece of code, lost to the ages that has been incorporated into Windows since dinosaurs once roamed the earth.
Atleast with the linux kernel you know who put what where, and can send them a fish in the mail if you think what they made stinks.
Yes but it would require EU politicians growing balls.
I am the smug well guy in this picture. You can complain and whine about Microsoft's shitty practices to people who have no way of effecting them..oooorr you can use a different OS. Kind of a "better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" deal.
you can literally just switch on most cases though.
My producer had used Linux for almost 5 years by now (on the 20th of this month), and I had used it for just around the same amount of time (shorter than him).
This is way truer than you think in my opinion....
The artificial superiority of linux users is the main barrier to creating more linux users
I should move but I just haven't found a good time to uproot my main pc and have an extended period of downtime. I'm not really using windows exclusive stuff anymore.