• M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I was just thinking about why many things on Linux are better. Like the install process on Linux is years ahead of windows.

    Then it occurred to me that windows only improves things that can make them money. If you need to install windows, then you can deal with the crappy installer.

    Linux devs improve the parts they think need to be better. The decisions are not guided by money and can be made without bias.

    • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      2 years ago

      Now that you’ve got the idea apply it to everything in capitalist society. Especially if something is owned by shareholders.

    • Lmaydev@programming.dev
      1·
      2 years ago

      The install process on windows is clicking a few buttons.

      For the vast majority of users it’s a way better experience.

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
        1·
        2 years ago

        The install process on windows is clicking a few buttons.

        That’s the default tracking experience, if you fall for all the dark patterns. Was a while ago, hunh?

    • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Linux devs improve the parts they think need to be better. The decisions are not guided by money and can be made without bias.

      Sounds pretty communist

  • Lmaydev@programming.dev
    2·
    2 years ago

    Microsoft loves open source nowadays.

    People do a huge amount of their work for free.

    They’re also heavily invested in Linux for the cloud. So any work done there helps them.

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      With Microsoft, any love shown could well be the Embrace part of the strategy that will lead to Extend and then Extinguish just as soon as they can figure those parts out. They might already have a plan.

      The fact they’ve been able to turn things to their advantage so far does not mean they don’t have such a plan. Or won’t ever have one.

  • Beefalo@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Ah, the late 1900s when you could still pretend that Apple was the choice of the counterculture for no credible reason except for Apple marketing. Slacktivism, my dude. Worthless.

    This meme is truly ancient. I bet those little iMacs go for a pretty penny on eBay now after everyone tossed them in the garbage circa 2003.

  • 4am@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    Holy shit, this is an old old meme. This image has got to be at least 25 years old

  • Zink@programming.dev
    0·
    2 years ago

    Talk shit on FOSS, by comparing it to communism like it’s a bad thing, on Lemmy.

    Now there’s a message this place will love, lol.

    • KreekyBonez@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      it seems like a pro-communist programming message to me. the red dude looks super cool and supportive.

  • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
    01·
    2 years ago

    Can we keep mainstream politics out of here please. I’m sick of them getting shoved into everything.