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15 Signs Linux Is Not For You (itsfoss.com)
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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 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is the real altruistic, hopeful view, but there are downsides that I enumerated in my other comment. Here's another, though - With large scale acceptance comes a flood of people who just want a tool that works, not something they can build on or improve.

The greatest strength of this community is the love of the platform and the joy of exploration. Most are in it for altruistic or at least self enrichment reasons. Many are able to contribute when they see a gap. That can be diluted quickly.

Then the entrepreneurs see opportunities to make money from those people, and the enshitification begins.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

This is why distros exist!

If the masses come to linux they will use distro's like zorin os a distro that costs a bit of money but gives you premium support options so you can have the just works experience.

My point is thay the more niche distros for people like us won't be used by the masses and neither will there forums, and I agree there probably will be some distros that get enshitified, honestly if linux gets popular enough we might even see a microsoft linux distro. But it won't be the distros that we use because we rely on distros built by the community, not corporations.

This is the same argument I see people use for the fediverse but this is why instances are so useful.