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Windows? Hardware testing? Testing in general? LMAOOO

Do you think this would pass the grandma test? If so I'm 100% going to host this (mainly for my mother, hence the question)

Nothing like autistic kids to be your brother in arms.

I've seen examples of this already where schools give kids laptops running a custom linux distro for education and they just roll with it. Also, the steamdeck happened, and a lot of people loved it before even realizing it's just linux... We should definitely give more support to companies shipping machines with linux preinstalled (even if the first thing I'll do is another install lol)

Plot twist: you're running the same distro

I see no contradictions between "simple is good" and "monolitic/corporate based like windows and macos tend to be shit". If anything, reality is the opposite of what you think. We can have many different simple and ready to go distros, i mean that's like the whole point.

If you install windows, for example, you can use it for many things, and it'll be mid crap in all of that and need hours of setting up (not to mention some mandatory scripts to get the bare minimum of efficiency, privacy, and clean adware and bloatware). Then, if you need to game, just install nobara and go. Need to do office or web-based stuff? Mint all the way. Same thing but you like apple aesthetic? Try Zorin. I could go on and on for hours with different use cases and distros, but you should get the thing by now.

Either that or stop babysitting canonical and use debian instead

To be fair, there's already a general consensus in which are the "beginner friendly" distros, which includes the community support and familiarity with windows. Most people would probably recommend Mint to a new or switching user, for example.

After someone is used to a more basic linux distro, diversity and complexity are pros rather than cons. "Oh you need a distro with super specific specs for a niche use case? There's 5, you can pick or try them all". I could have linux on every machine i own, including a TV or even a thermostat, and I'd have a different setup.

Hard agree on this. Sell software and services to companies, only sell services to end users. I believe both selling your service as a dev and selling a service behind a free app are compatible with copyleft.

Earlier this week i ended up pirating some games i actually own because it was easier that way than the official one (which involved going through 3 freaking launchers for one game!), so there's the answer lol.

Trusting someone for convenience isn't ideal, but not everyone has the time and resources to audit, compile, and host a dumb frontend for yt. Most of the people here is good enough trusting literally anyone except a big tech company, including FOSS devs, the people who check the code, and public instances of their software. Even considering recent drama (solved by the community btw) I'd trust any FOSS project over google any day.

Someone shared this repo yesterday, which allowed me to understand the drama. It's basically one guy in charge with connections to a military tech company trying to force them as sponsors (not contributors or donors) and forcing the current situation of power so he's still in position to do so.

Forking wouldn't allow to use a non-free license, which is good, but it'd mean they could avoid being tied to a military tech company (or any companies) by changing the people taking decisions. That's why they focus so much on that on the start page.