[–] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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