• M500@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I was just thinking about why many things on Linux are better. Like the install process on Linux is years ahead of windows.

    Then it occurred to me that windows only improves things that can make them money. If you need to install windows, then you can deal with the crappy installer.

    Linux devs improve the parts they think need to be better. The decisions are not guided by money and can be made without bias.

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      11 months ago

      Now that you’ve got the idea apply it to everything in capitalist society. Especially if something is owned by shareholders.

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      11 months ago

      Most people don’t install windows. It comes pre installed on something they bought. Microsoft probably puts more time into automating the process.

      Also, last time I installed windows it was a breeze. I haven’t installed Linux in at least a decade, so I can’t speak for that.

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        Try installing debian some time, the installer makes windows’ installer feel like its for a piece of software you got of a sketchy site that wants to install 16 other things not even related to it

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            We must be using different installers then, because between the amount of telemetry you have to turn off, the dark patterns, and the insistence on using a Microsoft account the whole experience reminds me of installing one of those “driver updaters” when I was a kid and before I learned that was a very bad idea

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    11 months ago

    Microsoft loves open source nowadays.

    People do a huge amount of their work for free.

    They’re also heavily invested in Linux for the cloud. So any work done there helps them.

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      With Microsoft, any love shown could well be the Embrace part of the strategy that will lead to Extend and then Extinguish just as soon as they can figure those parts out. They might already have a plan.

      The fact they’ve been able to turn things to their advantage so far does not mean they don’t have such a plan. Or won’t ever have one.

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    11 months ago

    When the program is free, it’s socialism. The more free the program is, the more socialism it is. When the source is free, it’s communism.

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    11 months ago

    Ah, the late 1900s when you could still pretend that Apple was the choice of the counterculture for no credible reason except for Apple marketing. Slacktivism, my dude. Worthless.

    This meme is truly ancient. I bet those little iMacs go for a pretty penny on eBay now after everyone tossed them in the garbage circa 2003.

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    11 months ago

    Holy shit, this is an old old meme. This image has got to be at least 25 years old

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    Yeah, but why would Microsoft post this? They barely make any open-source software so why are they promoting FOSS development?

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      11 months ago

      It’s a meme dude, it’s a play on poster from the early 2000’s about pirating media.

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    Talk shit on FOSS, by comparing it to communism like it’s a bad thing, on Lemmy.

    Now there’s a message this place will love, lol.