• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    This feels like such a fuck you to working class. People can’t afford another layer of these costs right now.

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      16 days ago

      … This is bait right? You want somebody to tell you there’s a simple and free solution, and then you’re going to say it’s a bad solution?

      FINE! I’ll bite: Pirated copy of Windows Enterprise LTSC. It’s less useful, more resource hungry, privacy invasive and has worse support for older hardware than Linux though.

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        16 days ago

        Working class people at large don’t know about these alternatives, I’m certain you know that. IT folk and nerds alike do, but anyone outside of these circles don’t necessarily see the choice they have

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          16 days ago

          Those people that don’t know options exist are also people that don’t care about or know about support life for something like the OS - they just see it as what the computer comes with. Most of them probably wouldn’t have upgraded from 7 to 10 without it just doing it itself. A lot of them will just keep using 10 well past the end of support.

          Also, I really enjoyed Railcar’s subversion of expectations with all that lead up to what we all assumed was a Linux recommendation to end up being pirated windows. That got a chuckle out of me. I feel like the haters didn’t get the joke.

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            16 days ago

            I feel like the haters didn’t get the joke.

            Their computer didn’t come with sense of humor pre-installed, and it’s too hard to do it themselves.

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          16 days ago

          Working class people at large don’t know about these alternatives,

          You mean only the elite know about Linux? Preposterous!

          *proceeds to clean monocle

          Jokes aside, it might be a good time to teach and learn. Or pay, or have less security moving forward.

          It was a staple of the “working class” to be resourceful, to know to repair stuff. It’s on Microsoft best interest that you change the computer, that you pay another OEM license, that they can drop support for older hardware… And this will happen again with windows 12.

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          16 days ago

          Working class doesn’t have the money to change to machine either.

          So, what’s the advice that you would give you working class? Pay, pirate or learn?

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        16 days ago

        Objectively speaking Linux is not a Windows replacement, its a minix replacement and competes with FreeBSD. Not everyone wants Linux and tbh I wouldnt reccomend Linux to most people.

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          16 days ago

          I’m very interested on a longer explanation of this take, considering how many people use Linux as a replacement for windows.

          And if the argument is “not everything that runs on windows works on Linux”, remember that can be said with windows vs Mac, iOS vs android and even windows 10 vs windows 11.

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            16 days ago

            They’re “technically” correct. That’s what Torvalds initially created it as. But what it initially was, and now is are very different things. I’m sure they would call OSX a BSD replacement and not a Windows replacement. Despite many people replacing windows with it. It’s pedantically obtuse.

            Right now the biggest wall from wider consumer adoption of Linux. Is honestly, simply the lack of systems offered to consumers with it. Outside of a few games with kernel level anti cheat. Or highly proprietary specialized softwares. There’s very little that you cannot currently do on Linux that you can do on Windows.

            Your Average user/consumer doesn’t install any operating system. Whether it is Windows Linux or Mac OS. They simply run what the computer came with. And that’s always been windows unless it is an Apple computer. That’s part of what the 1999 antitrust suit would have sought to remedy. Microsoft punished any company that had dared to even offer systems with Linux for a long time. And nothing was ever really done to stop it.

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              I’m sure they would call OSX a BSD replacement

              No they wouldn’t. That’s Linux, among other things, because when it was gaining popularity, BSDs were defending from lawsuits and rewriting litigious parts belonging to AT&T (that is, preserved from original Unix sources).

              Right now the biggest wall from wider consumer adoption of Linux. Is honestly, simply the lack of systems offered to consumers with it. Outside of a few games with kernel level anti cheat. Or highly proprietary specialized softwares. There’s very little that you cannot currently do on Linux that you can do on Windows.

              No. Actually no, that’s not the biggest wall.

              Under modern Windows you can run software compiled for Windows XP. Under Linux you’ll have a lot of sex with your system before achieving that kind of backwards compatibility.

              Since you mentioned BSDs, and they are similar to Linux in daily usage, with FreeBSD you may install compat4x, compat5x and so on packages and run rather old binaries. FreeBSD version of Opera browser (yep, they made a FreeBSD version), which was a binary from Opera Software, didn’t receive an update since 2013 and till 2021 and it was in working condition.

              This wall for your typical Windows user is hard to describe. They are doing something the only normal way they understand and are told that they are holding it wrong. Say, they install a package for the previous major version of their distribution. Or just try to run some binary downloaded from somewhere and it tells them angry things about libc version and possibly other libraries.

              Also the “advanced” things under Linux are not usable for many people, and the “user-friendly” things are complex and buggy.

              Of course, Windows users also would really like to use their familiar Windows applications, but that’s not as important, Wine solves a lot of it.

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          16 days ago

          Drag would recommend Linux to everyone, except for the very small minority who plan to install a non-Linux OS on their android phones.