I was eating some chocolate when I imagined a world where Hershey’s was widely accepted, even by elitists, as the best chocolate.

Is consumer elitism just a facade for pretentious contrarians? Or are there things where even most snobs agree with the masses?

Also, I mean that the product is intrinsically considered to be the best option. I’m not considering social products where the user network makes the experience.

Edit: I was not eating Hershey’s. Hershey’s being the best chocolate is a bizarro universe in this hypothetical.

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    You’re right. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. But for those few games that don’t run you get:

    • A truly FREE OS
    • No data tracking
    • No advertisements
    • No OneDrive
    • No forced updates
    • Complete control over your system, including visuals
    • Tons of FOSS

    Computers are more than video game machines. I made the final switch away from Windows because I wanted to be treated like a person, not a customer.

    It’s a lot more about philosophy than functionality. When something doesn’t work in Linux, I know it’s a genuine mistake someone made and that it wasn’t intentional. M$ has infinite money and they can’t even figure out how to keep the Sleep function working while at the same time forcing you to sign up for an account that they can choose to cancel for any reason whenever they feel like.

    You don’t own your PC on Windows.

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      • OS is free from pirating
      • Is tracked anyways, so doesn’t see the point of changing OSes just to be tracked less on one thing
      • I don’t get advertisements unless I’m on the internet and if I’m not using adblock plus the version of Windows I pirated, I see less of them anyways
      • Never used
      • Probably the only thing
      • Totally subjective and sometimes total control has a lot of risks than rewards and irrecoverable consequences
      • Nah