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What would it take for you to switch to Linux? (piefed.social)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And how would the advertising world even get their shitty software onto your computer? Unlike windows, there isn't some monolithic corporate entity making decisions about your computer for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    The same way they got their shitty software into everything: deals with producers. Your mom/aunt isn't going to build her own pc/phone, theyre going to buy what they can at the store, which would be something sold by dell or HP or whomever, who cut a deal to discount some price by including McAfee or printer-easy-setup-utilities that advertise new ink or printers.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So worst case, your mom/aunt deal with the same amount of advertising crap that they always have, but anyone who wants to can remove this stuff and use the same Linux as they do today.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yes, until they lock down the software by pushing out the smaller people via certification requirements, specific signing methods, and branded closed-source apps while gating the open source repositories however they can try.

    I'm not saying all this to deter adoption btw, this is just how it seems to go: the public puts work into something to make it good it gets co-opted by corps and they enshittify whilst marketing it to the world, so everyone gets in with 1 idea and it changes to the same old mess.

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