Of course Microsoft is evil. All companies are amoral machines driven only by profit. All basic search engines become more useless by the day, while Windows enshitifies in every way possible. The natural trajectory of all companies is monopoly, weakening all supposed benefits of capitalism by design. Capitalism requires heavy government intervention to ever benefit the customer, and by removing that as a viable option, liberal democracy has signed its own death warrant.
r/pcmasterrace on reddit is absolutely coping right now and members are attacking Linux users on sight
At least the top comments on a couple of the biggest threads are skeptical
I found that thread because I was curious I've skimmed it and saw many instances of people going "but it's only on the snapdragon x chip", as if Intel and AMD aren't gonna release the same CPUs but capable of more AI shit
TIL you can customize the icons on Libreddit.
Gonna have to check the docs -- can I make my own colorschemes??
It’s a corporation. Of course it’s evil.
Technically, not all corporations are evil.
For example, I'm a solo-entrepreneur and I own my own company/corporation and I'm the only one in it. I don't think I'm evil. (For now??)
But I get what you mean. I'm assuming evil comes with size, power and influence
As am I. Also solo. I’ve talked to a ton of small business owners, and the difference between small business owners and corporations is you have to be willing to fuck people over to become more than “the little guy”. So, I think people like us are in the “not evil” category because our goals aren’t just to simply “make money line go up.” However, because of that, we will forever be “the little guy”
Anyone who recommends you use Windows is actively trying to cause you distress and anguish.
Linux users turning into computer-vegans when somebody uses a different OS
That's so true. There was this time I was checking a Linux community here on Lemmy and someone made a post saying he was trying this new Linux distribution and said he was having fun with it. I genuinely asked what he meant by "having fun" and I received downvotes and no replies. Then, replied my own comment saying "Oh my, downvotes and no replies, what a lovely community" and my comment was modded out. That totally killed my interest in Linux.
Why do you think I'm using Linux mint now?
To attract horny single women in your area?
We all know that Linux users have the most guarantee to get laid
Why is everyone moving to Mint?
Mint is pretty good at "it just works" thing and has a very friendly UI. It also comes with a few very handy tools developed in house by the Mint team (though these can be installed on other Debian/Ubuntu based distros). It's usually high on the list of recommended distros for people new to Linux or who just need general purpose computing without a lot of fuss.
Yes. About 22 years ago.
Was that right before or right after XP?
I wouldn’t say evil, just another capitalist company. It’s the norm unfortunately.
another capitalist company
that's a lot of words to say evil
Amoral for sure, but evil is relative I guess. A company can be both amoral and good when it is convenient to be.
Basically corporations are never your friend, but they can be less terrible if there is financial incentive. If this hurts their bottom line, they'll backtrack.
...but that assumes capitalism would provide the financial incentive to be less terrible in the first place.
Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it not evil.
"I knew, there's a reason why I haven't upgraded to 11, and once I'll be forced to do so, I'll be using some hacked version to get rid of most of the bloat that still has the upgrades, and doesn't put Brave as its default browser - no thanks, I don't need a Chromium browser for anything else beyond sites that broken on Firefox due to lack of testing and/or intentional breaking even with spoofed user-agent string (I'm looking at you, government websites).
You dropped this:
""I'm looking at you, government website"
I don't think there is any browser that government sites actually work on.
Internet Explorer 6
Decades ago, i was there when they tried to crush Linux, never trust those fucks
And now they use Linux for their backend.
I'm too lazy to use Linux but I'm considering
It's not as hard as it seems.
I've got to get all of my PCs moved to Linux by October next year too; we've got this!
Install VirtualBox or other VM software of your choice and try playing around. Nothing to mess up like that. But it won't reflect the hardware compatibility for your PC.
Yes to make this a new more versatile meme
ah yes a classic xenia posting, these never get old.
It's pretty clear most of you can't be bothered to read past headlines.
Recall is local and they aren't using your data for upstream training.
"RecAlL Is loCal TheY" not gonna try to find out and im not trusting for sht anyways until independant network traffic analysis
