I miss how i used to think Capitalism was healthy and competition from rival businesses fostered innovation - until they all teamed up against us :(
Because, f**k you! That's why.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Lisk91@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what the “deregulation” “conservatives” have been screeching about for the past few decades is all about.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s basically the end game of capitalism: Plutocracy.
humanamerican@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I thought Fascism was the end game of Capitalism.
irmoz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imagine a system that incentivises greed and self-interest, and which runs on competition.
Now run that simulation through your mind a few decades.
If it doesn’t end up with vastly fewer companies competing over vastly larger portions of the market, your simulation wasn’t set up accurately.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yup. Bazzite for the win!
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Now is the right time to start a small business migrating Windows 10 EOL machines to Linux for people who can’t afford new machines and offering service plans to help them if they’re stuck.
That’s basically how Red Hat does it for corporations, they don’t sell Linux, but they sell service and support for it.
Will it be exceptionally profitable? Not at all.
Will it be a pro-social and helpful thing to do for your community while making maybe enough money to scrape by? Yes.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Currently happy with Linux on the old-ass Chromebook I bought for a whopping fifty cents. Works great. Does everything I need it to. Am laughing at Microsoft depreciating old hardware and laughing at new hardware prices.
Might eventually upgrade to a laptop that has a touch screen… But only if it’s under $5.
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Linux distros have driver support for a Chrome book touch screen?
Lol, I’d like to see that
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Well, my fifty cent chromebook doesn’t have a touch screen, so I wouldn’t know.
But I’m using Graphite OS on it, a lightweight Linux variant with a specially tailored kernel to work on old Chromebook hardware, including drivers for all the weird stuff. Everything it has works, even the little special feature buttons and stuff. No longer an actively maintained project, unfortunately, but it works well enough for now. I’d love to see someone revive it with support for more modern Linux kernels. (Unfortunately, I can’t update the kernel without losing some of the special modifications that make it work more efficiently on a chromebook and include chromebook-specific hardware drivers.)
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I have a Chuwi Hi8, a cursed attempt at a x86 android tablet poorly pretending to also be a tabletPC. Debian runs fine on it. The only thing still not supported is automatic screen rotation. (it still took ten years to get the wifi to run with it though). So if it’s not supported now, someone will try to fix that.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the video games I’m playing in Mint.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🐧
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that mint iso is just sitting there. mocking me.
humanamerican@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You can do it!!!
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My 2009 i5 pc is still going strong on Fedora. With a 1060, can play most of the games.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Still have a 2009 Acer Aspire One running. Slow but fine for web and email and doc editing. Also small and battery lasts quite a while.
manigordo@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
I’ve been in Debian for the last year and a half, must admit that I really love it, my old yoga pad from 2013 runs smoothly, and air bought it from second hand. I do even play things like Morrowind.
It did never run w10 as smooth as it does with Debian.
decapitae@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Can’t be properly third world without a modern computing deficit, right? 🤔
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Microsoft pissed me off so much last week I finally listened to the fedi hive mind and installed mint. Feels good man.
Azrael@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t regret my decision to switch to Linux.
richie_golds@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I switched to Linux six years ago because I was bored and wanted to try it as a main OS for the first time. “I can always go back”, I told myself when I still wasn’t sure of things.
I never did, and never will.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Joke’s on them, life with an old laptop, a new battery,and Debian is amazing
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I put kubuntu on an old laptop. It runs well enough that I am going to dual boot it on my main PC.
Microsoft out here doing Linux marketing for them.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still on Mint. Haven’t needed to load my windows drive up in weeks. My non-tech enthusiast partner is coming around to trying Linux after seeing what a shitshow 11 is on her work computer. It would be great to get her to switch over before my 140 dollar bill for Office 365 needs to be renewed.
I’ve also got some other family members who are interested in trying it out, which is really saying something for a group of people who got started with Win 95, and are very proficient and comfortable in Microsoft’s ecosystem.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s always been this way…
A long long time ago, when I got my first PC, one single MB of ram was $100, so having 4mb was pretty boss! But then win95 dropped and demanded 8mb of ram to run anywhere near half decent, this happens with every Gen of new windows platforms
humanamerican@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
But Windows 95 didn’t refuse to install itself on hardware that otherwise was capable of running it. Windows 11 will not install (without jumping through hacky hoops that could break at any time without warning) on a computer that doesn’t have TPM 2.0 even though it can run just fine on computers without it.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You’re right, you could install on a 386, but it ran like shit on anything less than a pentium.
humanamerican@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Arch is Amazing. Bazzite is Beautiful. CentOS is Civilized. Debian is Dope. Endeavour is Enchanting. Fedora is Fantastic.
I use Fedora so I’m stopping at F.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Gentoo is great. Hannah Montana Linux is happening.
… nothing comes to mind for I, passing that along to the next person.
callyral@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
IPFire is inflammable, …
I’d never heard of IPFire before searching btw, and it’s not a general purpose distribution. I cannot find any active distro for J, but I found this JustEnoughLinuxOS
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
And Ubuntu is … also there.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ubuntu is Snappy
/s
SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ubuntu is uhh…
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It Used to be great. Now, uBuntu is a bit Bloated…
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Use TempleOS! It is divine
rapchee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
C C C COMBOBREAKER
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
PopOS! is praiseworthy
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mint is minty
Johanno@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Nixos is greeeeeaaaaat… Well I kinda hate it, but also love it.
Gaming on nixos is thanks to valve a no brainer.
But anything else might be more difficult on nixos. But also more configureable and immutable
Surp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This sentence is the problem most people that are basic end users that use windows have. They have no fucking clue why so many versions exist (or flavors what have you) and have no idea what to install. Windows gives them the comfort of an all encompassing OS even if it’s shitty it’s easy. My 67 year old mom probably can’t just use Linux.
humanamerican@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Lots of Windows users don’t even know they use Windows, so I don’t think this really matters, as long as the computer comes preinstalled with a user-friendly distro or their tech savvy grandson sets it up for them.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
OpenSuSE still the wallflower