I think the real thing we need to do to attract windows users is have tuxkart installed by default.
Tuxkart about to be a dependency for base
Christ a bit of paranoia would do modern internet users good, I still remember when it wasn’t normal to have every single piece of identifying information online and readily available for anyone.
Isn’t that pretty much a thing of the past? This meme is maybe true for Facebook, but most sub 40 people don’t use that anyway and the “public diary” days are also pretty over. Sure, you can stitch together a lot from geolocating Instagram posts and LinkedIn information, but it’s not like it’s the searchable database Facebook was in 2012.
Data brokers getting a kick out of this one.
That’s not “readily available”, and it’s certainly not given voluntarily by users, it’s often straight up illegal. That’s a very different case.
It’s available to whoever is willing to pay. Consent is given when users agree to privacy policies and ToS. Unfortunately, unless you’re in the EU, it’s legal, and when companies violate permissive laws or suffer a data breach, the penalties are often inconsequential. The original comment was vague and didn’t specify the case. In the context of linux users vs MS and Apple, I’m leaning towards a distrust of big tech and “readily available for anyone” being inclusive of a multibillion dollar ad industry and the ecosystems developed around it. Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.
Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.
That’s how words work, yes.
The threat of public information for most people is not a data broker, but their neighbor. And unless you have a particularly psychopathic neighbor, they can’t realistically access data from a data broker.
It’s threat modeling like every cyber security. My phone’s password protects me from a random thief, but if a state actor really wants my data, they will get it, but the chances of them even trying are very low for me personally.
Hahaha Windows users having sense
have no idea how to install another OS
I’ll have you know I know exactly how to install Linux and simply choose not to!
(I ran Ubuntu for 3 years)
I know how to quit smoking weed erry day, I simply choose not to.
Damn, just call me out dude
It’s all in good fun
Well Ubuntu is shit XD
Try KDE.
I can, I just prefer windows
The only Unix system I ever willingly install is android, even though it’s harder to install than Linux
Android is Linux, simply not the traditional userspace :)
Linux Distros have a huge variety. What have you tried?
Why would I go through all that effort when there’s no real reason to
Lol
Denial at its finest
I use windows on my PC, mint on my laptop and lineageOS on my phone. Installing linux on a gaming PC feels pointless to me
I made the full switch probably 1.5y ago. Gaming on Linux is great now. The only major issue is modding. Nexus doesn’t have an app for Linux yet (it’s in development) so you have to install mods manually. That’s not too big of an issue, but it is annoying. Other than that it’s nearly flawless, excluding a few games that have anti-cheats that haven’t added Linux support, like Valorant.
Well then you probably dont know enough :)
Why would i need to? I tried Linux and it’s mental. Took 20 minutes to edit mount settings on my hdd. fstab, gnome disks, and whatnot. Meanwhile Windows is: here’s your files bro, whenever you want. And don’t even get me started with the countless problems i encountered to install apps, edit hdd permissions, configuring panels and more.
Yes on Windows I think disks are not mounted, they are just there on the letters
But that works fine on Linux too. I have not used multi-drive systems much, but I use an encrypted SD card that is liked to a folder in my home so that programs dont even need to write to anything custom. Was like a few clicks and even worked on GNOME, on KDE that is easier too.
Panels, yes. KDE had a separate panel config per monitor which is worse than on Windows. But apart from that, they work out of the box and are really customizable.
GNOME… doesnt allow configurations like at all. You need 3rd party apps for everything, then you can do whatever you want, which also works well.
So maybe that just has changed.
That is my experience of one week ago
Shoutout to the 3DS custom theme shop for having a Tuxkart theme
In all fairness paranoia is important in things like finding someone trying to slip a backdoor into xz. Going by the most recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft seems to be “we’ll fix it in production”.
from the linux sucks community?
nah it was here just deep in the negative https://lemmy.world/post/20843892
From the main protagonist from Linux sucks, because I downvoted it and everything in that community and that idiot’s post history. Lol
Just had a look. Weird choice of hill to die on
Everyone needs a hobby, but definitely not a hill.
Windows users have regrets
Mac users have stockholm syndrome
Linux users have a computer
Haven’t tried Kart (and MarioKart too). How fun is that for a couple?
Tuxkart is really great! One of the really good FOSS games, it has multiplayer and it even supports the wiimote :)
I’m a windows user and I don’t deny anything. I’m just too lazy to switch to Linux and I need the full functionality of Teams for my job.
The Linux Teams app works. I’m not sure what is missing other than MS abandoning dev on it
For one thing, you can’t make break-out rooms in Linux, which is something I need to do all the time.
Hmm, that sucks. I was disappointed they trashed it almost as soon as it started…like a Killed By Googke thing
Crazy, that the web app is missing this, when the windows app is just webView as well…
What the fuck is tuxkart?
More like Windows user have games.
Linux
Have time to make everything work before doing anything
Also I live in a river in Egypt bitch, guess which one first one guess doesn’t count and you can’t repeat guesses and only possible answers allowed…
Also there’s a camera recording everything I’m doing at all times that’s somewhat accessible to hackers.
First guess is “the Nile” second guess is “denial” , third guess is Sinai. Also, what the hell is that, an AI catcher?
I don’t know man. I was really bored and being silly and sucking at it.
The idea is that there’s only one river in Egypt. The Nile and denial was what I was going for, yes obviously, but that’s not a river in Egypt. Egypt the denial isn’t just play on words and then I kept on going because that’s how I communicate
