Pastafarian
I agree not sweeping Linux under the rug is important, but what about something like:
Doors: Powered by Linux
After all, Linux is just the kernel. It isn’t the operating system <insert long Stallman rant>. Saying ”Powered By" is both accurate, and the brand recognition horse shit people go for
Make no mistake. I don’t like that brand recognition is an important consideration, but it’s important to recognize what works for many people
I can see where you are coming from and chrome os is a good and bad example of what I mean. It’s a bad example because of the lack of transparency. It’s a good example because it creates a “brand” around the product. Linux lacks brand recognition to the average person, and when we approach getting folks on Linux, we do one of two things. We pick a brand for them, or we explain what a distro is and that linux is actually the kernel and that its really GNU/Linux or GNU and Linux etc. I want to get to the point a non technical user makes the choice themselves
Outside of just buying computers with Linux one them, imo the best scenario would be if there was a recognized brand, like chromeos, which people could point to and say “you’re good with computers and fuck windows. Can you install Doors?”. You have to admit an operating system called “FuckWindows OS” would be appealing to those who utter the words several times per day.
I’m also not suggesting we go guns blazing into doing this so much as presenting a consideration why we are less effective than we’d like and what we could add to our focus to improve conversion rates.
TLDR: Linux, or our representation of it, is confusing to the average person. Could we address this with a distro whose purpose is to establish a stronger brand?
Not at all, but there is a difference between creating a finished product and creating a finished product a particular way. If you make a suggestion for how I do something, and it isn’t stipulated to be part of the finished product, then I can do it however I want. If however part of the contract is I do it your way, then that matters. Hope that clarifies things
Have you ever had a client who wanted something done but had an asinine suggestion for how to do it? Do you do it their way or do you focus on getting the job done? Unless it’s a stipulation, you do it the way that gets the job done.
Unless there’s a stipulation, there’s no reason you must do it the way they suggest. Fuck off with that my money my rules shit.
Why would you piss in a sink?
I’m working on getting my parents off of onedrive. Would you suggest using syncthing over nextcloud?
Is there incentive to swim in a smaller pool? Otherwise far enough not to smell it.
Hyprland is transphobic
I’m the same way, but I end up buying something similar. Show me Wendy’s and I’ll eventually go to Burger King
I never exactly paid for any. Didn’t exactly steal. Didn’t exactly pay. I’d call it “appropriate”
Does anyone have a few optiplexes lying around?
The people could easily overthrow the U.S military and all the police who protect the corpos and stuff.
Why haven’t we? It’s not for lack of gun
That’s just Florida being stupid
Perhaps, but the Florida Window is wide open
only thing that can save America is a revolution, and for that we need to be armed
The keyboard is mightier than the gun
Form meaningful trusting relationships with other people
People make arguments like “If you ban guns why not knives? They are both weapons.” The counter is the addage “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”
You’re right you could make firearms in your basement, but they would be far less effective that something that came out of a factory.
With an armed population, the state at least has to keep a venture of morality and legitment to the people
Or they need to be more heavily armed. Which they are.
Most of the world’s countries have already fallen to extreme orwellian authoritarianism and they are working on the U.S right now
And yet only we have armed drones in schools to prevent school shootings.
Parry and hit back. Ask her why it matters what you use if you can function with them as if you use google. Then return fire with your favorite reason not to use google. For me, I like to open the dev tools in Firefox, and show the head of any website. Let them choose. Find the line with google analytics, google tag service, or google ad sense. “Wow this website has nothing to do with google. Why is this here? To track you. Did you know that google can track your mouse? Even if you don’t click on anything? Or they can track you by installing fonts?” Etc. Etc. Scare the shit out of them and they’ll leave you alone. Hopefully you can slowly begin to convert them.