AnonTwo

?? Historically it’s been an issue where you need to prove you didn’t do it, because otherwise the companies would bury you in legal fees trying to defend yourself. You’re like…trying to argue an alternate universe to how this normally plays out.

That’s…not a legal excuse.

In fact that’;s an open and shut end to a project if you’re caught doing it.

Hasn’t ReactOS been accused of using code that was not reverse-engineered multiple times? If they became too big MS would probably just sue them.

Keep in mind that you are an experienced user of linux.

This site is probably about people who are both inexperienced, and also may not have time to adequately learn the system the way you have.

And no, as someone who has gone through Fedora, Mint, and Arch, saying they’re for “everyone” just assumes everyone is going to use linux the same way you do. Which is a huge mistake. Arch didn’t even have a normal installer up until a year ago, the process even with the arch wiki guide is completely unwieldy for most users to do. Many distros disable popular codecs by default, which a lot of users wouldn’t have the patience for. Some will have Nvidia drivers for up to date for gaming, and some won’t.

And most of all, you’re also running new users into the choice dilemma, where there’s so many options they just won’t know what to pick.

…What does the writer think support end means? Microsoft bricks the PC as soon as the support period ends?

They’re going to just keep using Windows 10, security be damned. Probably a good number of users who weren’t keeping their PC up to date even when Microsoft was forcing updates on them.

…Do you…do you want there to be a correlation with “not supporting genocide” and "antisemitism?

Because if not, I don’t see why there is any issue with protecting the jewish sites. They should not have to suffer because of people who are falsely correlating the two.

I said that in a confusing manner, but basically: There’s a good chance people are using the war as an excuse to perform antisemitic acts. Just because we don’t associate with those acts doesn’t mean they aren’t going to happen, and we should still be encouraging those acts be prevented.

Nobody said they were.

edit: okay crazy people on a lemmygrad site said they were. But that page that guy linked looked about as nice as a 4chan site…

…Aren’t drug patches already a thing for more extreme drugs? I feel like you just gave bad examples when there’s actual examples that exist…

Isn’t it less accepting and more realistically doing damage control to avoid legitimate damage?

Like sure we can shun them to the point of violence but then they just will hide it, bottle it, and we just have to hope they never actually do anything with those bottled emotions.

We’re very quick to get uncomfortable about people’s issues, but very slow to do anything to actually prevent those issues from leading to more serious issues.

The reason we’re even going in this line of reasoning, is the possibility that it could lead to no actual children being harmed by it. And it’s mainly because it has the advantage of deterring people you don’t actually know have those issues, which is the #1 issue at the moment with it.

I’d say Executables (for all their risks) make it pretty easy for less savy users to get apps not immediately made available to them, given there are definite security issues.

But I will be fair that I think Linux’s flatpaks are helping a bit with making apps more available without worrying about the distro. Plus proton/wine lets users grab some of the useful exe’s from windows.

It’s improving I do agree, but it’s something that will hopefully keep improving.

You’d have to check one of the side-distros. SteamOS itself has no official installer yet, only available pre-installed on steamdeck.

There are distros that are organized to recreate it for normal installation though.

Though to be fair, that’s pretty “normie” to not have to experience the installation process at all. Most people will just use what shipped with their PC.

I mean, if you’re biggest argument is, “they might Google the wrong distro”

if you don’t think that’s an issue, you probably are in the tech-savy category

I meet people on a daily basis who can’t even say what browser they’re on.

like drivers are a mess compared to Linux

Maybe but if you google (which most users use for their daily driver, even on IOS/Android) you get pointed to the manufacturers who have the driver installers as simple as possible. These also come with auto updaters.

I mean you could not use the tools the manufacturers are providing, but at that point I’d argue you’re trying to be a tech savy user when they offered a way not to.

And very, very, very few edge cases are more difficult than that. most are plug-n-play (which to be fair, Linux has as well)

If you try to google a result for Linux you get a bunch of results for distributions that might not be yours. if you try to google a result for your distro you might get a result from years ago that is strongly not recommended anymore (especially if it leads to that Ubuntutalks website). And then the absolute worst case scenario, where you google and don’t actually find what you’re looking for, because the manufacturer does nothing with Linux and nobody cares about the problem.

A lot of windows was made around things that non-savy users were breaking. Nowadays a lot of the major issues I see people talk about are because they tried to do something that was very clearly something that they didn’t want to be done.

Pretty sure those users you’re talking about don’t understand desktop controls in general, and would be even worse on Linux. Because when we talk about tech savy we’re not talking about basic controls.

Linux is a usable daily driver if you’re tech savvy enough.

A daily driver shouldn’t need you to be tech savy. There should just be an added benefit for being tech savy.

If enough countries join in then there will be a barrier to actually making money off of it. Even if you become the leader in AI if your method is just banned in other countries the money won’t be there.

That being said, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to get very far anyway.

I am just realizing that the original OP had an extra line that I’m not actually arguing, so i’ll just say fair enough.

…it’s a Barbie movie

Like…one of the dominating toy brands of the 90s…the fact it has “personal development and cultural introspection” is something most people aren’t going to know except word or mouth or seeing it themselves.

Both movies were tie-ins. But yes, the Barbie movie had more substance to it on closer inspection.

I think the controversy between it’s release alongside Oppenheimer and the people raging about it helped.

Not at all to say it’s a bad movie. But a good movie with some controversy is going to draw more people than a good movie with no controversy.

The trade-off is that this probably permanently burns all bridges between the library and publishers, who would likely not want to deal with the library any more.

To be fair how is that a tradeoff? Weren’t other people contributing to the internet archive?