I’ve argued this for point for so many years and have become exhausted to the point where I don’t even bother any more.

Free software advocates, God bless them, are fighting a good fight but we will never see the average computer user giving up functionality for the sake of some computing ideology; whether that ideology be free software, privacy or security focused. I’m glad some people are willing to do so as I believe strongly that the world would not be where it is today if it weren’t for it’s existence offer the last two or three decades. But the reality is that 90% of the world views computers, phones and tablets as tools; a means to achieving an end, not the end in and of itself. There may be some subset of people who are willing to give up some convenience or utility if they believe strongly enough in one of these ideologies, but most of them will never care about the license of their software as long as it gets the job done. But this is precisely why we need people who do care about these ideologies because software freedom ultimately is important and people do benefit from it. It just needs to be as good as, if not better than, it’s non-free counterparts

Biblically accurate Debian is a sentient twirly magenta spiral. Jk, I don’t know, I hadn’t thought of Naruto, tho it’s a good reasoning. At first I just figured Debian should be a sophisticated looking lady with an old-ish style, both because it’s an old distro and because it has what I find to be the most elegant logo. I thought of using animal features because I’d done it before with Arch in a previous meme, and that was due to the whole “femboy” cliche. I wondered if I should go for a cat again or some other cute animal, and I remembered there was a fox girl named Xenia which had once been proposed as a Linux mascot; so I went with that.