Souls games.

Ed Sheeran.

In-N-Out.

Oh is it because I’m brown? Huh? I don’t ask you what country you’re from!

7b trash model?

People who didn’t open an attachment that played “I’M LOOKING AT PORN OVER HERE” in the office complaining about getting a nice unexpected serenade from Rick Astley.

I R fucking C. Who needs all the other garbage in teams?

Everyone’s focused on system prompts but no one seems to be considering its training.

Tell me you don’t work in large enterprise environments without telling me.

I’ve been through this before. If you simply don’t care for the user’s data, most of them will be angry afterward. It’ll hurt the cause.

I’ll add an anecdote that I hope gives everyone some hope though. I did migrate an elderly couple to Ubuntu years ago, and they actually really liked it. I think they found it simpler and faster than windows on their old laptop.

I considered it, but I think the overwhelming, unexpected workload would be migrating data, training users, and working with them through migration to FOSS applications from Office and the like.

It’s definitely not just going to be “installed Linux on your computer, have a great day!”

Pretending Linux doesn’t have vulnerabilities?

But…why

Why do you need flatpak

I need nothing but apt or dnf. Miss me with that other junk.

Profits have nothing to do with Tesla’s stock price, unfortunately.

That was the point I was trying to make ultimately, but apparently failed to articulate it well enough.

Oh no, I’m not washing my ass with soap every time, but I commend you for commitment to the cause.

The problem has been that Intel and Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive strategic execution to ensure that each would be a winner over the course of most of our lifetimes. That’s why “Wintel” became a household term over the late 90s.

Now, if you’re building any sort of hardware, why would you pay developers to write drivers for Linux, a hobbyist operating system that had no money flowing around it? Absolute saints cobbled together drivers for video, audio, modem, and other hardware just to make things barely usable, often with buggy behavior. Without insider knowledge of the hardware and firmware design, nor the sheer manpower to do development, Linux floundered in graphical user environments for a long time.

There were proprietary codecs, browser plugins, winmodems, and all sorts of things tailored to Windows user environments that were difficult or impossible to get working on Linux. Linux experts became surly and inaccessible due to the heavy burden of helping newbies just get the system booted and their VGA settings properly set. And so, Linux remained a hobbyist operating system for a long time. User groups finally got companies like NVIDIA to help write drivers for their hardware, and now, getting to a working Ubuntu desktop is arguably simpler than Windows 11.

IMO the problem remains collaboration, engineering, and gaming. The new Winmodem is AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and BG3. Until the Linux user base grows to a point that it can’t be ignored by the companies developing these products, it’ll remain a very niche OS.

It is illegal in most places. Enforcement is the problem.

Socks and sandals is awesome.

It’s not happening in a vacuum. Elon Musk has made an enemy of Wikipedia.