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I am personally against gatekeeping anything Including linux , but young naive me from 6 years ago felt this way, and I wanted to see if opinions had changed from back then

I asked this same question 6 years ago on Reddit just wanted to see if general opinion has changed now as Linux has arguably gotten way more mainstream

Edit: Progress meant 3rd party hardware and software support, innovation etc. I decided to rerun this question because of the new discourse surrounding LLM use in the kernel; the pretext being a smaller community would have easily taken a binary decision regarding the matter, for better or worse

  • bertlewirth@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I mostly just want to see the tech bros go broke. If thst means Linux/floss is mainstream, then by all means, go ahead. But yeah, I wanna see them fail so fucking hard

  • somereaduser@reddthat.com
    1·
    13 days ago

    I don’t want usage adoption; I want philosophical adoption which will lead to usage adoption.

    I want users to appreciate that they own their software. I want them to realize the importance of being able to inspect and use your software as you see fit (within reason).

    I want people to realize the dangers of walled gardens, and opaque black boxes that are doing who knows what.

    I hope that makes sense; I get confused and worried when people just push adoption. I’d rather people migrate because they believe in FOSS, and then setup linux boxes for their non-tech family members as a means of protecting them.

    I have a lot to say on this…but the words just aren’t coming out right now. I guess I need to get in the right frame of mind.

  • eremophila@lemmy.zip
    0·
    13 days ago

    I would be happy for linux to flatten microslop, it’s just a question of whether it would then turn into it in some respects (2026 has already seem some not some awesome changes).

    Somewhat along the lines of: If lemmy becomes as large as reddit, lemmy will become trash like reddit.

    • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      01·
      12 days ago

      The world belongs to those who do the work. Capitalism sucks, but it’s always capitalists who drive the production of things. It doesn’t have to be that way but it is because we are lazy. SteamOS exists because Valve put in the work. Any of us here could have made SteamOS. We didn’t because we are lazy.