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  • Because marketing department haven’t been open sourced yet

    Microsoft, Apple, etc spend billions on marketing, whereas open source spends about 0. It relies wholly on word of mouth advertisements, and just showing people that it’s actually better and free

    Believe you me, if tomorrow we get world wide advertising for a free operating system that works better than Window crap or apple crap, that won’t spy, and is free, a LOT more people will jump in.

    I’m guessing that “open source” either is completely u known or still is a bit of a dirty word for people, associated with “alternative software” so it must be worse than the “real” software, right?

    Even though in many MANY ways its superior to corporate software. And its free. And its almost always free as well.

    I’m guessing that the cloud services has also been a response from tech companies to open source because on the one hand they get to use open source software for free without giving back anything and on the other hand they get to sell subscription services for stuff that should be free anyways.

    Again, most SaaS software providers put there float on open source software, yet they’ll charge you through the nose for the little layer they built on top of that. There are other such layers available for free in the open source community,but you’ll have to set it up yourself. That is the basic difference.

    For me, o host everything myself.









  • Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in their turd prison

    Ooohh wow, they are? I’m so happy about that, I can’t wait to get my hands on their turd and be told what to do and be limited to only their wishes and pay them through the nose!

    I mean who wouldn’t want to work with a vibe coded piece of shit that can only run on the most expensive hardware? Who wouldn’t trust a company who left security holes open for half a year causing the US government to be hacked by China, just because they didn’t wanted to look bad nad potentially lose money?

    The company that constantly non stop has done everything to get themselves more money, at the cost of software quality l, consumer sanity and everything good since it’s founding some 5 decades ago is now telling me they really do care about me? The company that wants to add advertising into fucking basic software like operating systems juuuuust to squeeze some more money out of decades old products, that wants to monitor your every move so they can use and sell your data, wants … Me? They real care about me, the end user?

    Go get pounded by a bag of umbrella dicks you motherfuckers







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    What’s it with the Wayland hate?

    X did a great job for decades but it’s old, it never was designed for modern day requirements, let it retire gracefully instead of dumping on it’s replacement, maybe?

    I understand there are some apps that still require X, those at some point will be / should be / have to be updated, but I don’t see that as a reason not to want to move forward to something better