Piracy isn’t the only alternative to streaming! Please consider putting a side a certain amount of money each month to buy physical disks, making films isn’t free and buying disks is the best way to suport them. Then you can pirate the rest.

Do these issues go away if you have a two separate physical disks for each install?

Ok, thank you!

There will still be just as many free as in beer linux apps and they will be just as easy to find since you can just turn on the filter for “free and open source” when your searching for an app in flathub or whatever repo and package manager you use, sure more proprietary apps may be developed but the open source ones will be here to stay and could get much more funding from donations if more people joined.

And I don’t think it’s about hardware development as that is already here, there are plenty options for hardware on linux and that is not a limiting factor.

What is a limiting factor (at least for me) is software support and it is the reason I still dual boot windows and linux. I need adobe for my work I know, I hate it too I wish I could use davinci resolve and other alternatives instead but I can’t. I am also a gamer and I play with my friends who run windows, I want to have fun with my friends and if a game doesn’t run on linux I still want to play the game even if it means using windows.

If the market share of linux increases then for profit developers will start optimizing applications for it since it will become a major target demographic.

In terms of viruses and regulation they are both fare points which I agree with you on, but I don’t think they outweigh the benifets of having higher user adoption (for me at least)

I would be interested to know, is software support is ever a boundary to you?

Thank you for telling me that. I never really thought that communist nations have done good things in the past, I suppose I already knew that about china. But I did not know that about the USSR. There is no education about any good thing communist nations have done well, at least in the curriculum I grew up with. And communism is therefore ingrained in people essentially as a synonym for bad.

Wait what? I thought the EU could be my future salvation! If the EU regulations are too harsh, and the US regulations are so slack that billion dollar monopolistic tech companies can thrive, Australia is just America lite but with mining instead of big tech, and developing nations are still developing and don’t have good amenities and the communist nations are largely dictators where do I go?

Ok, first of all you clearly know a lot about this than I do and I would love to learn more, where do you find information related to socialism and socialist nations? Obviously I cannot expect to learn all of this from you.

What has been successful in Europe? First of all many European nations such as Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have a progressive multi party system which prioritize good urban planning and privacy laws (the latter I am not 100% sure about but believe to be true) And the European union as a whole regularly enforce regulations ensuring fare practices among big companies such as recently they enforced apple to require side loading and meta to remove the consent or pay advertising model. As well as when apple was required to use usb-c on there iphones. This is just my limited knowledge so feel free to prove me wrong and two examples may not be enough evidence.

Also I read your other arguments but I simply don’t have enough knowledge to have anything to say about them, but I very much go by the quote “absolute power corrupts absolutely” and therefore find it difficult to believe that any dictator can be better than a democracy.

I first started Ubuntu as a minecraft server, then last year I actually started using it as a desktop.

Which one is .ml?

The year of the Linux desktop: any year now for the past 10 years.

I’m waiting for the day someone who isn’t a nerd and regularly uses Linux.

I’m assuming your talking about Russia and China I think it very fare to criticise them, considering they are both totalitarian nations which don’t respect the needs of there citizens.

Maybe it’s just capitalist propaganda but from what I’ve heard, China is a mass surveillance state which doesn’t protect any of the citizens rights for privacy and has lacklustre working environments which is why everything is so cheap to be made there. Cuba is stuck with a poor economy, but I guess that’s all developing nations so i don’t know much other than that. For Vietnam my source is a friend who’s family mostly live in Vietnam, he says people in Vietnam dislike communism but can’t say it out loud. And I don’t know much about Laos or Burkina fasso.

To be clear I do consider myself a leftist and anti capitalist but I don’t believe there have been many properly successful socialist nations outside of Europe really.

Dang I didn’t know there were successful communist nations in developing countries.

there are libs on Lemmy?

That’s a real showcase of how linux actually cares about its users over other companies. It’s great to see that hardware I buy now will be supported on linux for a long long time into the future.

I 100% agree. I’m still relatively new but this helped me become much more confident.

You might be right I searched it up and found that protonmail doesn’t encrypt header lines which isn’t great. The f-droid point is also valid. But unfortunately there is no decentralised email providers, even tuta is still centralised. I would be interested if there are any options for decentralised mail.

On another note regardless of whether I’m using proton or tuta it’s hardly ever end to end encrypted since everyone I’m sending the mail to uses Gmail.

Interesting take, thank you for your opinion.

Yeah I’ve also heard malware bytes is good. I heard if from thenewoil.org.