"I want my partner to stop beating me daily, but I don't want to leave them"
They keep beating you as long as it's profitable for them - and you keep it profitable
First of all, has your own experience with Windows been so traumatic that you actually feel it's proper to compare it to spousal abuse of all goddamn things?
Secondly, using emotionally manipulative false equivalences like that do nothing to further the argument, it just shuts it down by spreading feelings of guilt in the other partly.
Thirdly, people are allowed to ask for more privacy without evangelists like you crawling out of the woodwork to guilt-trip them into making a change they may not be ready for.
Can’t we agree on both? I don’t want microsoft to spy on me and I would like people to switch to linux.
The problem is no matter how badly we want that to be true, Linux just still is not stable enough or user friendly enough for the average user. Unless you're ready to be a system admin full-time for someone you're giving a Linux device to, it's pointless. Even the simple ones like Mint? It's too much for my elderly mom, she gets lost too easily. It's just too demanding of average users, simple as that.
I want people to switch to Linux too, but this is exactly why this comic is dead-accurate, because it's just not ready for average users and likely won't be anytime soon. Why? Because Linux gives you control, and giving you control is actually demanding of your time and energy and effort. People like Windows or macOS because they don't have to expend time, energy, and effort, it just "works" well enough for them to use it passively.
There are worse things in the world than regular people not being able to handle Linux.
I switched my grandma to Fedora and she's been able to use it without issue once I got it set up for her. She only really needs a browser and word processor anyway.
YSK that like all demographics, grandmas occupy a range of intelligence options.
I think windows also kinda sucks for older people and less technologically inclined people.
Windows is what people are used to, doesn’t mean it is better. I think there are a bunch of linux distros that would work just as well for older people.
Really tired of "Linux user sucks" joke. We all know some obnoxious people exist and are annoying but they are small minority confined to their own space.
On the other side, everyday I see Linux people working on their free time or for little to no pay on accessibility issues, bettering software for everyone (including windows users). I also see community members doing their best to answer, document and work with newcomer to fix their issues. I see developers burning out because they received another report insulting their work because a feature doesn't work exactly like windows, etc...
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, sorry if that's the case.
Yeah I was going to say something similar... I've only been in Linux for maybe 2 years or so, but my experience interacting with people has been nothing but positive. Everyone is very helpful.
We all know some obnoxious people exist and are annoying but they are small minority confined to their own space.
But why did that space have to be lemmy?
I think the people who want free and opensource social media overlap with people wanting a free and opensource OS. But I don’t think everyone here uses linux and I don’t think most people that do are obnoxious.
Windows isnt built for you its built for me, a Systems Admin.
It is so easy to get all my corporate logging and compliance software onto that thing. Its objectively spyware but the feds and the insurance companies said to do it so I do.
Oh and copilot, by the gods, its so nice to give Microsoft full access to all my emails, teams messages, and notes so it can so quickly answer questions for me on everything. Only works if it's ya know spying on you and you're spending hundreds a year to use it. But it is great.
"Complaint"
"Solution"
"No, only complaint 😡"
I am going to take the bet.
The thing is : microsoft won't stop spying, collecting data is a nice business, and also most people don't need windows:
Finally, posting this on the fediverse is a bit ironic : why would you go on a small userbase social network when you can just go on facebook, X, bluesky or reddit ?
Those tribal linux-neckbeards need this to feel superior. Who cares for their opinion?
I use both as tools for the job at hand. One always fits better than the other. It's not a cult, it's an OS
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