How is no one mentioning the abuse on r/conservative where spewing all kinds of falsehoods, and xenophobias and you are gold, but trying to provide factual information gets banned?

I think there are more things to worry about than the number of groups someone helps moderate.

And alsothere is no recourse against improper bans. I was banned from my corresponding country sub because a moderator misinterpreted something I said.

Oh. Smart and pedantic about an autoincorrect. I’m not going to say I know more about computers than you because… One never knows. I just started in 1982 and have only worked in IT my whole life in pretty much every role, in more than 30 languages and many different platforms plus contributing as a developer in a small distribution around 2006-2010 and ending up as a lead entreprise architect providing advise on the technological direction of 300+ systems. But again, maybe I don’t know much.

Your answer confirmed my original comment. You are commenting without fundament. “I used it 15 years ago” qualifies for speaking about Linux in past tense. Not in present tense.

By the way, I don’t know if you used virtualisation or WSL to run Ubuntu inside windows (I remember the Ubuntu cd had that executable) but it’s not the same as running a proper installation and back then WSL was lacking.

For me talking about WSL also qualifies as past tense as I haven’t used Windows at all since 2019.

Good for you that you like Apple. It doesn’t mean that Linux is not stable or is lacking though.

I said “you” generic as a knowledgeable person.

The people you are talking about didn’t install windows either. I’m talking about comparing apples and apples.

There is no more difficulty installing or using windows or Linux, but in Linux there are less problems.

Starlink needs regulatory permission in every county they provide signal to.

You start with any mainstream distro. Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Mint and the like.

The differencea between them aren’t relevant to a new user.

You install whatever you are comfortable with to be able to help them.

I put that in quotes because geeksquad sometime gets called to literally just connect cables and show the client where the power button is.

And my point is not to blame the clients. My car mechanic may be laughing about me taking the car to do things I can do my self in 5 minutes.

The point is that windows isn’t easier. It just has more readily available support and people who start using windows are OK calling someone.

People starting with Linux think that if they find an obstacle, “that’s it, Linux bad”, instead of paying someone to solve it.

Again. Have you used Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu?

Regular people get help with basic stuff in windows All the time. That’s why there is a Geek Squad in best buy. That’s probably the only thing missing for the non technical Linux users.

If people are paying someone to “install” their printer, why would it be different with Linux.

In fact, in Linux they’d need less tech support as many windows users calls are for slowness, virus and obsolescence.

Let’s not compare usability using different standards

Tell me you haven’t used a Linux desktop recently without telling me.

“I remember”. Using that phrase tells me it wasn’t recently enough. And “using it inside windows” tells me you tried to fit a round peg into a square hole or that you don’t know what you are talking about.

You may be a MAC fan and that’s OK if that works for you, but I haven’t needed to use anything else but Linux since 2004 (initially there were always pickups, though) and I’ve been runing it without issues since probably 2010.

“Microsoft testing new ways to lose customers”.

It’s well known that piracy was what made Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) the de facto standard.

If the kids at home can’t use windows, they’ll find something different. And when enough of them find if, when they become decision makers they’ll stay away from Windows.

Imagine how different the landscape would be had MS cracked down on Piracy for their flagship programs.

People shouldn’t wait to get to that point when all the historical signs point in that direction.

I think you are being victim of the boiling frog effect.

Do you want to be pedantic and wait until the mass graves are discovered years after thebfact? Or do you see the escalating signs that they are going exactly in that direction?

Right now they are already disappearing people. They are already following the totalitarian regime playbook and history has shown exactly where it leads to.

By the way, remove the wool over your eyes, it’s not like the US doesn’t know the totalitarian regime playbook. They’ve used it many times in other countries to install puppet governments. The only difference is that they are doing it now at home.

Honestly, using the cloud to “right provision” can save a company money or at least give them great flexibility.

The problem? Companies over provision in the cloud and most of that goes unused.

When it’s cheap and easy to spin a new instance under load but later no one cares about doing capacity analysis, you end up paying for way more than you need. That’s where the money goes.

Let’s start a conspiracy theory. Although these days everything can be true:

It was heroine but someone in the police department syphoned the heroine, replaced with water and agreed with the defendant that they’ll get a slap on the wrist if they followed along.

So, now, someone has some heroine on sale!

Yes, but they only sell in packages of 6. So, who needs 120 Megatrons? In the long run it’s better to buy just what you need or you end up nuking cities you didn’t want to nuke originally.

The reason why Maduro is in power is the US. Plain and simple.

Hadn’t the US propped puppet right wing governments in Venezuela, there wouldn’t have been a need for a Chavez mesias.

The US doesn’t care about drugs. They care about Venezuelan oil and continue tal hegemony. That’s it.

So, it’s not only Trump. It’s every single government before him.

Show of hands: who expected high ethical standards by Nestle’s CEOs?

Yep, we don’t get to study the Nanjing masacre, for example unless we go out of our way to learn about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre