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The Lemmy experience (lemmy.world)
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[+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [+] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    If the VW Golf had a complete monopoly on the car market to the point where you had to spend years jumping through hoops just to be able to drive your Focus on the roads, despite the Golf being an extremely shitty car when taken on its own merits, you'd probably be pretty resentful to the people who enable that monopoly, too.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Your example sounds like the morons that respond to Amazon product questions.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, it sounds like people who are constantly being told that Linux is "too hard to use" compared to Windows speaking up when they see a blatant example of that not being true.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I think you just inadvertently called them morons, lol. In any case, I used Linux exclusively for about five years. It is more difficult for most users than windows. The majority of the time, with windows, you just plug shit in and it will work for you. On Linux, it requires you to research what MAY work for your hardware. Often times, if it does work, you are missing features for your hardware. For software, you generally have to look up programs that will do what you'd like, as most mainstream programs aren't released for function with Linux. Additionally, most users are not familiar with our comfortable enough with using command line interfaces. You must be able to use command line as a Linux user. I haven't used Linux in approximately a decade, so some things might have changed, but people won't know that because the issues I pointed out were true for a long time. Most people aren't savvy enough to use Linux and they don't have the time/patience to learn it. Why this makes Linux users upset, I'll never know, it's all rather silly and unimportant.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The ads thing is because you probably have a different idea of what an ad is then they do. Usually when they are talking about ads, it's self-promotional stuff. Teams being built in, Onedrive asking to be setup, and especially Edge constantly begging you to give it a chance.

    There's also that link to the Microsoft store for Candy Crush in the start menu of fresh installs of Windows 10. I imagine that's what kicked off the whole 'loaded with ads' thing. That's one anyone can agree on.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It’s not an EU thing. As an American, the small popups that show EVERY NOW AND THEN are not that big of a deal. I use windows for work, mac for personal, and Linux for other things like my server and hobby projects. Linux has regularly given me the most trouble.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    not to be that guy (i definitely am) but philosophy is political, just less obviously so

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