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15 Signs Linux Is Not For You (itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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  1. You love giving your data away
  2. You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
  3. You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
  4. You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
  5. You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
  6. You’d rather battle corporate tech support
  7. You’d rather rent your software than own it
  8. You think ads belong on your desktop
  9. You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
  10. You like rebooting for every little update
  11. You’re uncomfortable when software is transparent
  12. You think community-made tools can’t be “professional”
  13. You want intrusive AI everywhere, whether it helps or not
  14. You think the command line is only for hackers
  15. You never really wanted your computer to be yours anyway
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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a bit less nihilistic about it, though. I acknowledge the benefit if being a small enough "market" that the enshittification doesn't hit Linux like a tsunami as you alluded.

More users means more bullshit money grubbers, more dishonesty, more incentive for greedy hackers to attack.

[–] helix@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Exactly! That would make all Linux users miserable and paradoxically more users would probably mean a worse experience for those additional users aswell.