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Been living here in an exclusively GNU/Linux world for computing since the late 90s. The way mainstream computer users consume their software and tolerate ever

Been living here in an exclusively GNU/Linux world for computing since the late 90s. The way mainstream computer users consume their software and tolerate ever increasing hostility and abuse, be it MacOS, Windows, Android, or iOS, whatever, has become completely foreign to me. Back in the early days it was easier to understand since the alternatives were largely outright broken. But today Linux performs so well on supported hardware, even laptops, 3D acceleration and all! and the DEs so much more mature, and you have things like Chromebooks making it very accessible... How everyone faced with actions like TFA describes don't immediately at least try out a dirt cheap Chromebook or used ThinkPad off eBay w/Ubuntu boggles the mind. I guess the lesson is never understimate the amount of abuse people will tolerate, especially when it escalates slowly over time.

hulitu 5y ago
> I guess the lesson is never understimate the amount of abuse people will tolerate, especially when it worsens slowly over time. It is not only abuse. Some of us have to use Win as a work OS. Microsoft has, through various methods, some legal, some not, established as the dominant player and if you want employment, you have to use it.
- pengaru 5y ago
  > if you want employment, you have to use it. I'm not referring to employer-owned hardware, where you have no ownership power over the hardware. The vast majority of personal, privately-owned computers, are unnecessarily subjected to this garbage, it's those I'm referring to. If you must for whatever reason, then use them isolated in a disposable VM like any other potentially hazardous software. Surrendering control over the freedom to use your computer however you wish to these proprietary systems has predictably negative long-term consequences. These are for-profit businesses which will inevitably leverage their increasing control for supporting increased growth/revenue, it's only a matter of time.

hulitu 5y ago

> I guess the lesson is never understimate the amount of abuse people will tolerate, especially when it worsens slowly over time. It is not only abuse. Some of us have to use Win as a work OS. Microsoft has, through various methods, some legal, some not, established as the dominant player and if you want employment, you have to use it.

pengaru 5y ago
> if you want employment, you have to use it. I'm not referring to employer-owned hardware, where you have no ownership power over the hardware. The vast majority of personal, privately-owned computers, are unnecessarily subjected to this garbage, it's those I'm referring to. If you must for whatever reason, then use them isolated in a disposable VM like any other potentially hazardous software. Surrendering control over the freedom to use your computer however you wish to these proprietary systems has predictably negative long-term consequences. These are for-profit businesses which will inevitably leverage their increasing control for supporting increased growth/revenue, it's only a matter of time.