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I’m more curious which is Stallman’s poison of choice

Honey I am the Linux mafia. I’ve spent the past 15 years pushing Linux on my circle of gay nerd friends

And it even stuck with 3 of them.

Again

COMPARED TO CONSOLES? That’s basically paradise.

Modern, unhacked and unmodded Consoles are:

1. Completely locked down, not only do they not let you install applications not approved by the manufacturer, in reality you can ONLY buy them from the manufacturer and you pay a hefty tax for that “privilege”.

2. Feeding you ads and upsell attempts whenever you turn them on, as the UI has basically been redesigned to try to sell you more shit first and make getting to your actual games take a few extra steps

3. Any undesired feature in a console’s OS is something you just have to accept and move on. Powerusers killing Windows bloat with third party tools is a time-honoured tradition that goes back to Windows 3.11

I’m not saying Windows is good.

I’m saying that for someone coming from a PlayStation or a traditional XBoXSeXxxx (I love making jokes out of this name), this whitelabelled ROG Ally machine would feel like finally being able to breathe. Just for the fact that you can use more than one storefront and install applications from wherever you want.

Let me put it this way:

Linux is an anarchist commune. True freedom.

Windows is an American Style Capitalist Republic. Freedom*********** with a thousand asterisks more. BUT for someone coming from the North Korea that is playing on consoles (or using an iOS mobile device or…), it DOES feel like finally breathing free.

Honestly

As compared to consoles? Windows is pretty free.

Why not all of those

Cars are a pollutant that is accelerating climate change.

Cars are a danger to everyone involved.

Driving is isolating as compared to walking or biking or commuting.

Car-first infrastructure makes cities uglier and uglier.

These are all true.

Nah windows is a landlord.

I hope this becomes popular enough that a lot of major distros start adopting it as a default

Specifically because I want to see turbo-weirdos talk about how higher-quality cursors are “bloat” or “against KISS” for the next 10 years. 💀