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@ryo
>using Linux no longer feels like running a free and open source alternative to proprietary peasant OS’s, it now feels more like running a freeware version of those proprietary peasant OS’s
No. Even using a shitty distro with SystemD is a 1000x better than using Windows because since at least Windows 8, you are required to register for an MSN account just to set up your computer. Windows 11 took it one step further and requires you to provide a mobile phone number. Windows markets itself as a service. It has forced updates, requires an MSN account like I just mentioned, and integrates itself with OneDrive or whatever they are calling their cloud service these days.
I don't know about macOS but I assume it's the same thing, but with iCloud instead of MSN/Outlook/Hotmail.
Though at least the anti-SoystemD (the protest distro's as they call it) are still fine.
The pro-SoystemD ones all seem to go along with the Red Hat (which is owned by IBM) corporate agenda.
@ryo I think the ultimate plan for subverting Linux is to make it near impossible to install it directly on hardware and to force everyone to use Windows Subsystems for Linux. I bet most Linux users buy Windows computers and replace the OS and that's slowly becoming impossible. So you will be stuck either buying niche or used hardware if you want to using anything other than Windows or macOS.
@ryo We can't rely on old hardware forever. Hardware eventually deteriorates, including well-built hardware. Eventually, we have to rely on hardware manufacturers like System76, Purism, and Think Penguin.
My biggest fear is that governments might pass laws like the US Infrastructure Bill (which gives the government full remote control of future cars) but for computers, so if that happens, then we have to rely on black market hardware manufacturers.
@ryo Literally the last thing I did before graduating was going to library and taking a bunch of hardware books (they were giving old books for free). I got a bunch of books on microprocessors. I just need time to sit down and read them.
The big advantage of computers having been being nerd-only and grassroots is that we actually have the ability to know how to put a PC together by ourselves, though developing each individual hardware part might be more of a challenge, especially anything that's at least on par with anything made in the post IntHell ME era.