Goodfellas

Xtract Ze Vucking File!

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A few more years tops.

Nobody has the right to live inside your body except yourself.

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Well, trying to take your point seriously I guess you could argue that companies with paying customers do have an incentive to keep stuff compatible. However, also FOSS devs don’t like public shitstorms by their users which should be a similarly effective.

However, you just argue based on annecodotal evidence without explaining how your examples are exclusive to FOSS.

The word and the law do exist. If it makes sense is debatable.

Which platform? Netflix works fine - do you mean YouTube?

Poor Windows NT.

Are we being overly anal about semantics here?

Usually not but your whole activity in this thread reads like you’re just hating on Linux for some reason: “too diverse!” “it destroyed my ssd!” (which I doubt). In that context your claim to have been a user just looks like a half-truth to give yourself some credibility.

Anyway, back to the actual topic: I don’t care about mass-adoption. Everything turns to shit when the masses pour over it. In my opinion, Lemmy has reached the critical amount of contributors to get it going, except more actual scientists maybe.

People know the unix system under the very successful product that is MacOS.

What? Only techies know that, 99% users don’t and wouldn’t care.

I used to use Ubuntu, and before that kde btw.

I’m starting to doubt you actually did since KDE isn’t a distro.

I won’t nitpick how Linux is a kernel not an OS but how is it not widespread? It just runs basically the whole internet…

The reasons the average Joe doesn’t use it for their desktop are convenience (Windows and macOS come pre-installed) and that you can run into technical issues due to bad support by hardware vendors. The latter is a chicken/egg problem and will possibly never be resolved.

Anyway, I disagree it’s due to the number of choices - we don’t need monopolies. Your grocery store is full of different brands of cheese and all of them still stay in business.

learning programming is BORING

Then it’s not for you. No shame in that. I don’t understand the notion that everyone is supposed to be a coder now.

If anything, the low-level coding part is something AI models may well make obsolete relatively soon. Unlike any craftsmanship - why not learn masonry or carpentry instead?

Hit F12 in your browser and start hacking in the console - search for Javascript tutorials to get started. Everything else needs some kind of setup and the js ecosystem is by far the largest.

Before deciding your profesional path, first figure out if it’s really for you. The software industry is huge and offers very many different jobs. Good coders still are nerds though that love logic puzzles and tinkering and require quite a bit of frustration tolerance. It’s not for everyone.

While this is far more elaborate, I agree it’s the best approach if the other person is willing to have a discussion.

You may sprinkle it with actual examples of what’s happening in China with their point system: not getting bus tickets or loan grants or whatever because you not even mentioned something critical somewhere but are associated with someone how did.

They may say it’s unrealistic but 30 years ago Eastern Germany was the same. They just lacked the tech and needed to recruit regular people as spies.

“Xtract Ze Vucking File” for tar

Hey thanks! I should be able to remember that too.

I agree, it has to be at least part-time hobby.

But that’s why I don’t generally recommend Linux to friends/family, not just DIY distros. I’ve also had Debian upgrades cause problems that needed to be resolved via terminal (something X related, don’t remember exactly).

I like pacman too but I will probably never get comfortable with its arguments. It’s worse than tar which has already become a meme. apt is more intuitive to use.