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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I'm not really concerned about getting more people to use Linux. Am I the only one?

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I feel like I don't really care what my peers use, or what people in general use, but the more adoption linux desktop gets, the more people getting involved in community projects there are, as well as more bug reports and the like, so the sooner things get improved upon and the better they become.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Also more about being mainstream. I'm being forced to use proprietary centralised locked down platforms because others demand it. Free software going mainstream is one of my aims

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    platforms because others demand it.

    like?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Whatsapp, google meet, gmail, google classroom...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    But all of those have web versions no?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
    1. That doesnt matter. I want softeare freedom and not just to barely run on linux. Forcing proprietary platforms ate ridiculus.

    2. I am using a mobile phone

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

    As a person who cares about the gaming ecosystem, I think it would be really healthy for Microsoft to not have full market dominance.

    They're busy making studio acquisitions which are gradually centralizing the market, which could become very problematic if they start taking anticompetitive approaches to distribution.

    More people on Linux means more pressure for software availability on Linux, and if people can just move over relatively easily that prevents Microsoft from going full corpo-digital-prison-hellscape.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Well, more people on Linux means more software support.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    we already have all the free software, im not missing adobe bullshit or other proprietary crap.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    More people using free software means more resources going into them, maybe industry-wide adoption. Would it not be awesome to have ODP be the standard file format for a document (because enough people use Linux to make an open standard necessary)? Interoperability will be a big thing if enough people start using Linux.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

    I mean personally I'm not missing anything so I don't see the benefits.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

    I care because by not using linux there is money going to microsoft or apple hands, which are not very friendly to user rights.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

    I have people asking me to help them install linux all the time. I am glad, in theory, but sad, in the practicality of having to work for free on my spare time.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    i used to care, now i dont give a flying fuck.

    if people are too stupid to use a superior and free system, fuck em.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

    Haha well, that's one way to think about it I guess.