I don’t think nowadays windows is subsidized. Sure, some manufacturers may recoup part of, or all the cost by pre installing crap ware, but those that allow choosing your OS usually give you a discount for removing Windows.
Android is frustrating with the way it limits you from doing what you want within the os.
I mean you have to find those check boxes in Windows too.
I do think some things in Linux are still not super user friendly, but for example installing apps is much better. Sure something may not be in the repo, even if some distros have impressively vast ones, but even that is easily solved with flatpak and appimage nowadays.
I think they meant that the comparison should be between desktop OSes.
The fact that the meme mentions desktop and phone OSes is probably because one is likely to use both.
I’ve never owned an iPhone, but it’s not like Android is the land of freedom


Bonjour


It’s a lot easier to accept bugs when you’re not paying for it, it’s not spying on you, it lets you do what you want, and it respects your freedom.
it’s just de-labeled, determined penguins can overcome that


Debatable as in I cannot be 100% sure it’s not AI, despite being 99% sure


Facial recognition software. Whether it’s AI or not is debatable.


snaps are essentially ubuntu-only
I have an ~/app directory for appimages


Tron and various Star Treks
Sleazebags are easy to spot, everyone else is just a normal person who may be interested in you as a person and that interest can grow or wane depending on successive interactions.


Weird, some time ago it booted with the default kernel by mistake and it couldn’t see my zfs pool


So glad I went with OpenMediaVault so many years ago


I have it on my installation, you’ve got to replace the kernel with the proxmox one, it’s fairly easily done by installing a plugin
My feet are practically always hot. I often stick them out of the covers to get some relief.