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Cartoon_Cat wrote

Only when they try and put me down for my desire to learn about alternatives.

People have a tendency to retroactively justify their failure to question their behaviour, and this applies in all areas of life. If you mention that you dropped Windows, some people will respond by explaining how good Windows is (without the appropriate knowledge) instead of being curious. They imply that their blind conformism was a rational decision. Those people I look down on.

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ziq wrote

When they tell me to 'buy a real OS' when I ask for a linux port of something.

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BabyCroc OP wrote

It's strange to me when Windows users bother with tor and ffoss apps. Your whole system is compromised, what's the point?

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sand wrote

lol

nah, people with solid levels of awareness re: surveillance and its consequences can still be swamped enough to not get the time to think about/come across the idea of libre tech

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DumbNameIWillRegret wrote

Nah, because I understand that sometimes there's some OS exclusive software or games that keep them on that OS. Hell, if it weren't for a few games, I'd be using Linux by now.

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coffeebird wrote

Install a bitcoin miner on their box and move along

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zombie_berkman wrote

They arent even worth putting effort. So I guess that's a yes

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GrimWillow wrote

Like others have said, I only have contempt if they look down on me for having Linux, or staunchly defend their bad decision making. Otherwise, I just see them as having a virus on their computer and they're being played by corporations pretty hard for their sweet nectar...err...I mean data.

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drh1138 wrote (edited )

No. OS elitism reminds me too much of pimple-faced white male nerd reactionaries.

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xxi wrote (edited )

Short answer: No. That'd be like hating workers because they slave under a capitalist system, or the non-white people who had to live under apartheid.

You can hate the system, or operating system, without hating the people who have to exist within it. You can always resist but demanding that of your grandma, or someone like that, would be too much unless there exist practical alternatives.

Longer answer: However, people who have some reasonable way to resist and possess the knowledge for doing so but refrain for doing so I cautiously question. To actually find who that might be is impossible if it concerns populations. I won't assume that kind of privilege unless it's obvious. But embarking on endeavors to find capable people is sort of missing the point isn't it?

It's a system. Something larger than the individuals. Also proprietary OS:s do rely heavily on oppression that comes as a consequence of societal systems. It's probably easier to change OS:s than turning your workplace into something that's owned communally. It's sort of a fitting analogy though. Provide a community-based alternative (online and face-to-face) instead of something that's based on crass on individualism and the help people might need will mostly be there.

If your grandma and others can ask the community for the help they might need most people wouldn't mind using different software, if it works for people to do "their stuff". I don't think they care deeply if it's called Windows, macOS, Debian or FreeBSD.

If these things were wide-spread and people promoted Windows/macOS from ideological choice, well... Those people are worthy of all the contempt in the world. They'd be agitating for bondage well aware of that alternatives exists.

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Slick wrote

Never. I respect their choices of platform. I myself maintain couple of Windows machines for work so I cannot judge other for their decision to stay.

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