I use Linux because it is free and good enough to do most stuff I want to do on a computer.
I use windows at work because I get paid - so from my perspective it is cheaper than free. It makes it frustrating to do the stuff I'm supposed to do but my employers are fucking idiots so it doesn't really matter.
Thanks that makes some sense. I think the thing is they've been effective in the past, and not much else has.
Maybe there has to be some sort of sacrifice to gain progress.
I guess some of the postwar progressive (economic) reforms - largely now abolished - were actually a product of democractic pressure rather than protest - but some of the other ones like anti-racism stuff still did require sacrifice and protest on top of that. And the prevailing economic conditions were quite extreme at that time.
When people have less to lose there's less cost.
Who is this mythical average user I keep hearing about?
I've never had a problem forcing people at work - even those with very limited IT knowledge - to run things from cli in windows.
For years in one place I worked the IT support first line solution was to tell all users to force a gp update from the windows cli. They'd point to a nice little how to guide with screenshots and everything. I don't know if any of the thousands of people working there were the all important average user either though, probably not.
Would a flatpak would survive this update?
I do use arch on some computers but with several flatpaks for some applications that I feel will be safer - but i don't really know.
Good communicators need to learn to pick up on how their speech lands, and learn how to adapt a little accordingly.
I doubt the internet is a good place to learn that skill. It takes a lot of real world practice, and a lot of people still get it wrong from time to time, way into adulthood.
But you should do whatever you like for yourself. But just try to be sensitive to the audience and prepared to adjust if you start to see reactions that you don't like.
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