Let’s try to be respectful of each other. I’m sure the devs of Elementary have their own vision and goals of their platform. They give their users an option to use their work for free and with no obligations. Why on earth would you bash their work when you obviously are not their target demographic.
It’s really not fair to call their users stupid either.
I really expected to find more evolved discussions on lemmy compared to reddit. Let’s stop the silly, meaningless bashing of opposing opinions or even worse personal attacks. Let’s not let this platform devolve into mob mentality.
And by the way I’m not the target demographic either. I’m a software developer using arch wherever I can.
Being a free software GNU distribution is also the point of Guix, and it’s part of what attracted me to it (although its practical abilities are nice as well).
Many people noticed that on that thread, and this behaviour is very much in line with what happened on the Huawei KPI count criticism mailing list post as well, just one day ago.
This goes in line with a recent comment I made:
It is also the case, however, that a bunch of anti-China conspiracists exist inside open source community, solely because of their subconscious brainwashing into the notion that USA is the one responsible for the existence of libre open source culture, and important figures like RMS and Torvalds also are from USA, and Silicon Valley also being a part of this. This culture existing because of US and EU is absolutely BS to the core.
There is a lot of gatekeeping culture by the believers of Western hegemon, and want to retain it, as the influence of Asians grows into open libre digital culture. This group racism combined with gatekeeping should be condemned and worked against, and I feel it shows a bias of the moderators there who either fear racist callouts against them, or are themselves believers of Western hegemony retention.
Open source is a socialist idea to the core, that puts the power and control into the hands of the society, instead of corporations as is with x86, and so, in this way the anti-socialist Westerners also practice their political ideological influence over the whole community.
It is disgusting for me, how my reactions as an Indian in Western groups have all been initially reduced to “HELLO MICROSOFT TECH SUPPORT” in voice chats, and there are other epithets and labellings for others in the world too.
I don’t really see the advantage of something like this for me, Most of the time, I blast the OS away anyway, even if it’s an os I actually use, I use gentoo, but I said I don’t see the point for someone like me, But if it’s your cup of tea, go for it. I’m glad to see more manufacurers support linux though!
I mainly think this is the gateway to more people even knowing about Linux, plus the added benefit of the hardware being more likely to get long-tern support. Making it easy for people to buy devices with Linux out of the box could do wonders for adoption, at least how I see it.
Fun fact: if you use Proton to run a Windows game in Linux, Steam reports it as a Linux player, so developers of many “Windows only” games will actually see a number of Linux users in their analytics.
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