Re: Now I've done it

Le 13-05-2025, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> a écrit :

On 2025-05-12, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

On Mon, 12 May 2025 18:29:23 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
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On 12 May 2025 17:30:52 GMT, vallor wrote:
 
 

Just try booting a live stick.  Take it around the block a few times.
Tell us what you think.
 
What are you afraid of?  God forbid you like Linux, and decide to join
The Revolution.
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Do not encourage the idiots.  It will eventually lead to the degradation
of GNU/Linux.

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Not to worry -- there's no imagination in their posts, so not worth
reading.  Just stupid lames.
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However, I have been trying some Linux advocacy, which I notice you
seem to always be opposed to.  I think the gentleman from France
is right:  you try to make Linux look bad.
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I agree with Farley.

You shouldn't. He's always wrong, even when he's right by mistake.

I have no issue at all with people who want to use
Linux, or another Free Software OS like FreeBSD switching, if they wish,

That's a good start.

but I do not like this idea that people should just switch, just
because.

It's not only because. There is a direct link between liberty and
privacy. When people are using Microsoft and Apple, it's like when they
are driving a Tesla. They can give their private life to anyone, it's
their life and their freedom.

Now, when a drive put his Tesla in from of my home, he's spying on me
for the behalf of the AI of a neo-nazi. And that's the part I disagree.
He can give his own life to who he want, but when he start giving my
life, I care.

And with Microsoft and Apple, it's the same: when I send an email, the
content of the email of a Microsoft or Apple user is sent to these
societies. And I care. So when people switch to Linux or BSD or what
they want that provide privacy, I care.

This obsession that some Linux users have, that "Aunt Tilly"
must be able to use Linux too is harmful.

Why? If something is made possible for an unknowledged user, it means
it's easier for me. So it's far from harmful: it's great.

The push to make it universal will result in silly decisions that WILL
make Linux just another windows, thereby losing all advantage.

That's a well spread stupidity I hear since decades, but I've never
seen any real argument hinting to a basic ground about its reality.
There are more and more Linux users since decades and Linux never
started to be unusable for me. Of course, I find some DE/WM usage
insufferable. So what? I just avoid them and everything is fine.

Chasing the biggest market share is self-defeating.  Ferarri do not stay
up all night trying to make their cars outsell Hyundai and Toyota, they
understand the niche they serve.  They don't tailor their cars for
people who don't want to drive a Ferrari.

Nonsense. You should avoid car comparisons when they can't stay on the
road.

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