Point taken. I assure you at least some of us are not going to shame others for choosing something other than Linux. We know it’s not simple to switch and get a comfortable environment.

We’re just willing to do the work for various reasons that feel important to us, and will gladly evangelize it gently.

… On the desktop. It’s de rigeur for servers.

Your points are valid, and if I saw this on a site like pcmag, medium or whatever, i would totally be on the same page. Still, how many “on the fence” people are likely to be here, on Lemmy, subscribed to a linux forum?

I chose to take it as snarky humor for the “in crowd”. Benefit: keeps my blood pressure manageable.

That is the real altruistic, hopeful view, but there are downsides that I enumerated in my other comment. Here’s another, though - With large scale acceptance comes a flood of people who just want a tool that works, not something they can build on or improve.

The greatest strength of this community is the love of the platform and the joy of exploration. Most are in it for altruistic or at least self enrichment reasons. Many are able to contribute when they see a gap. That can be diluted quickly.

Then the entrepreneurs see opportunities to make money from those people, and the enshitification begins.

I’m a bit less nihilistic about it, though. I acknowledge the benefit if being a small enough “market” that the enshittification doesn’t hit Linux like a tsunami as you alluded.

More users means more bullshit money grubbers, more dishonesty, more incentive for greedy hackers to attack.

I enjoy the snark, but also agree it’s condescending. Folks, take it as cynical humor, and don’t be so harsh.

Anyway I commented to say that #10 is creeping into at least some distributions.

My Ubuntu sends security updates that frequently impact system libraries and thus demands (politely) a reboot.

Gnome software does it all the time, but a regular “check for updates” will often install without demanding reboot. I suspect the update won’t be in effect until reboot, though.

The cost of using a phone. “In love” is what I wrote and the keyboard decided I meant involve. Just to write this, I had to correct the corrections twice.

Ask a finance pro why they went into finance. If you don’t get the same answer, they are lying.

Anyway, I fell involve with computers and programing at 13 years old, and nothing else appealed to me, so guess what I became?

For clarification, I initially read it to mean that anybody “poor enough” to have to work to earn money does not deserve to live. I.e., rich people are human, everybody else is subhuman.

Your interpretation I saw a few moments later, and that the post was criticizing that phrase. Basically, the polar opposite of my first impression.

You know, when i originally read this, the way i interpreted it was that he was saying that if you need to earn money to live you don’t deserve to live.

I much prefer the version that is an indictment of the phrase “earn a living” as implying you don’t deserve to live if you aren’t “working” in the modern sense of earning money at a modern job vs doing what’s necessary to stay alive like all nature’s critters.

I can agree with that.

Yeah, that’s what I was doing… /s

I guess you’re on board with demonizing people based on the location of their homes. They don’t deserve to be treated like decent humans? You’d spit on them just because they came from America? Interesting.

At what point did doing things for yourself become cringe?

Methinks this is what the collapse of civilization looks like.

And how do you react when someone spells it R U S S I A? If that’s hurtful or “propaganda”, check yourself.

I agree Trump is evil. America is not. It is a nation, and because it is run by humans, it does nasty shit just like most others. I hate it, but demonizing a whole population is not helping.

Oh, yeah, and holding the right mouse and dragging to resize the window.

Came here to say this. Basically, the same way it’s used in Windows. I hit the key, type a few characters and I launch the app I seek.

Paperweight? Oh, wait - too small and light.

You might be able to get AI to generate mermaid if you can get it to scan your topology.

Just like he gets to keep his immigrant wife while everybody else’s families are ripped apart, the piss hits his “subjects”, not him.

I had success using openVPN. I set it up, generated certificates, installed it on my phones, tablets, and laptops.

It won’t work when using an external vpn like Express or Mulvad, but while using it, you have secure connection to home. Once done with the home network, turn off the vpn, turn on your commercial vpn.