How else will the cats keep us as pets though

I love VLC. I also love mpv.

I like to think that VLC is for window users for them to get a taste of what it’s like to use Linux.

I tried making an account on bluesky. I was using orbot at the time. It let me make an account and then instant acocunt suspension. Similar to other platforms.

I appreciate the platform preemptively stopping me from wasting my time. I should have known better.

lol do you see companies passing down the savings to consumers for doing work that was once done by workers.

It has nothing to do with boomer mentality, whatever that means.

Who said that? I don’t deny any of that. Perhaps the party sbould listen to its base? Glad we agree on that.

But it’s not politicially useful to shame people who choose not to vote. That won’t work out.

But ackchually did you know if you were against the Iraq invasion in 2000s you are pro-saddam? Checkmate, tankies

/s if it wasn’t obvious.

Comrade, don’t help them come up with creative names, comrade

Could you please show some evidence lol

I don’t know. I’m on ml. Something about ‘tankies’? I dont bother thinking about those cliques and ppl being so clique-y, and nor should anyone else. immature behaviour tbh, but I haven’t received any teasing for being on ml so I think it’s a minority of people who really dislike lefties maybe?

Welcome! It feels fresh to not be on a big tech platform.

Lol that’s hilarious if not sad.

Welcome to Linux. You’ll learn, and for the better, by using it more. Like picking up anything new there will be difficulties at times, but well worth it. The first positive on your list is good enough reason that makes any difficulties worth surpassing.

I also am a fan of dwm.

The wonderful thing about open source projects is just use the code and move on.

One can modify it as they please if needed, but if the code has no crappy political baggage then so be it.

Ok but look on the bright side of things! you get great futures with this big tech concentration and control of the market. For instance, who else doesn’t want a operating system hotkey to Linkedin, baked into their settings? How did I use a computer without that before?!

I agree, and I love it. Sure there are some iffy aspects of it that may give trouble, but for the most part a lot of those problems I’ve experienced can easily be solved by a quick search or are “would be nice but i’m sure it will work soon” features, and I can’t even think of any recent examples with the latter. So I’m left with a great learning experience to how my computer works, another win.

Linux has also taught me to make good references. You get a very different experience to your computer than with a regular windows machine that ‘works’.

I like to point out how I can update installed apps with a simple command (e.g., sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade).

No bloat, no ads, open source and the communities are just amazing and helpful.

What’s there not to like?

I don’t think I could ever use windows again, and it makes me proud.

There is a lot out there on why from a lot of sources, so definitely not hard to do research on this. Definitely research the history of this company regarding anti-competition, Bill Gate’s letter to hobbyists regarding intellectual property and markets (which touches on the whole proprietary vs FOSS suff). You can also just use their products for a while and see for yourself, note what you like and what you don’t like (for me the latter is more likely), and make your own judgement.