I got fed up with Windows and recently tried Linux Mint. In regards to ease of use it was like a breath of fresh air. Things just work inherently, and I didn’t have to fight with it to remove bullshit I didn’t want.

As for software compatibility I’ve mostly already had alternatives readily available. For other things the tools exist to make them compatible and don’t take long to learn.

There is no reason not to recommend it to people who are getting annoyed with the enshittification of Windows.

You know the people with influence and power.

Who are shitty people that happen to be religious. Criticise them for being shitty and pushing shitty policies, don’t pretend that every prison who happens to be religious is responsible for them or believes and behaves in the same way.

The linked comment isn’t complaining about the head of anything.

Riiiiiiiight it’s atheists that are the problem. Not just shitty people who happen to be atheist…

90% of religious people have a similar reaction when people complain about shitty people who happen to be religious.

Turns out you find shitty people in every group. Who knew?

People do choose to believe in things that I think are ridiculous and saying that I cannot call that out is just religious people saying you can’t call them out.

And what value does your calling them out add to the discussion? Does it lead to an interesting nuanced conversation? Or is it immediately just people insulting each other while saying nothing other than “you’re wrong”?

If it never leads to useful or interesting discussion and only leads to flame wars and arguments then it should be banned.

Anyone who dislikes the hypothetical critique can simply hit the report button and it will get wiped if Rule 4 is read at face value.

Oh, so you want to throw your terrible take out there for everyone, but you don’t want to actually defend it or have people openly disagree with you?

ITT: people who don’t understand that if the article takes place in a specific geographical region, then general comments about said article are also referring to the same geographical region.

That’s like saying the tolerant can’t be intolerant of the intolerant, when in fact they have to be.

So they admit what happened and Trump’s role in it?

When they start calling people “jr” or implying anyone who disagrees with them is too young to understand.

All these “nobody wants to work anymore” people are the ones that think they don’t have to take care of their employees because they can always hire someone else.

I’m volunteering to install Linux on my machine instead of just bitching about Microsoft while continuing to use Windows.

I don’t see how pointing out the reality of “if you’re not going to stop using Windows then Microsoft doesn’t care what you think” somehow makes me responsible for every computer in the world.

Lemmy folk forgetting that not every person cares enough to switch OSes.

Right, so if they don’t care they’re not going to complain very much about it. If they are going to complain what are they going to do about it? If it’s “just complain and nothing else” then Microsoft doesn’t care.

I believe Mint is designed for ease of installation and use, and similarity to Windows.

Do those programs not work on WINE?

What Linux needs to get widely adopted is settle for one central distro

One central distro guarantees its eventual enshittification. I’m happy with the knowledge that if my distro enshittifies I can just move to a different one.

It is bullshit, and people will complain while continuing to use Windows so why should Microsoft care?

Where the fuck we gonna put all the waste product?

In the air, so everyone everywhere is interacting with it on a daily basis.

Oh wait, that’s what we do with waste from all the other power plants.

A waste product that can put on a specific spot is easier to deal with than a waste product that can’t.

That’s completely irrelevant to the question they asked.

It’s even worse if you’re watching competition shows:
“Coming up: things you’re going to see in the next 5 minutes.”
“Welcome back: recap of what you’ve seen in the last 5 minutes.”