Everyone's biased. If you don't think you're biased you just haven't identified the bias yet.
For example 'the center'
You are already talking about a subset of (probably English speaking) programmers let alone the population at large. So that's a bias there. And you've chosen the centre, other people may not agree with where you've put the centre. I for example am accused of being right wing and left wing. Presumably the accusers didn't think I was in the centre.
Having said all this, I do agree with your points, I don't think you'll have much luck actually improving the level of conversation though.
Perhaps it's down to the fact that a lot of communication is contextual/ group bonding? You are expected to behave a certain way. If you laugh at something the group doesn't find funny, you are excluded from the group. Visa versa. If something does behave quite right, it doesn't belong in the group?
I'm autistic for what it's worth. I'm not sure if that gives me better of worse insight into group dynamics.
People were worried about trains in tunnels 180 years ago. People worry about new things. See also: the internet, video games, mobile phones, various genres of music.
I'm not up on my current windows security, but windows has been dominating for decades, much of which it's security was non existent, being originally a single user system. Linux being a nix is multi user from the ground up.
So you seem to be making a conclusion that isn't warranted.
That isn't to say any of this is wrong per se. Just that being the best does not necessarily lead to success.
Fair enough, but I think many people miss that something can be suboptimal in one way and very optimal in another. As an example, plenty of people here hail ffmpeg as the most optimal way to convert videos between formats, and for the technically inclined it sure is. Despite that, probably 99% of people that have ever needed to convert a video haven't touched it/don't know its name and never will because its interface is totally suboptimal. "It is the best and not successful" can be read as a true statement, but it leaves out that it is the best in this one sense and is far from the best in another sense.
To bring this back to the point I have found that AD is well documented, functions generally the same everywhere, and has an intuitive enough interface that you can get not-super-techy interns on the helpdesk up to speed on reseting passwords in it in short order. I couldn't say the same for any Linux management system I've touched, so even though you could say "system management on Linux is the best" and have that be a true statement, you're still missing where it fails and why that area matters to businesses.
I don't think we disagree. Problem is Linux users, of which I'm one, self selected to reject that ease because it's limiting. There's still a tension now, eg Gnome that is insistent on going all Mac in removing all options.
My personal suspicion is that you aren't going to get Linux to become what the windows users want it to be without it stopping being Linux. We've seen this with Android. So in some ways the rejection of centralisation on the Linux community is the thing that keeps it being Linux, for better or worse.
Right but windows also aims to be backwards compatible which means it was trying to run things designed for a single user system undermining protections.
'vim' wasn't designed for multi-user use. Nor was emacs.
Applications don't need to somehow be "designed" for multi-user systems. It's up to the underlying system to enforce application isolation in various ways, which NT has and does.
Does vim expect to be able to delete files in /bin?
If vim tried to create, modify and delete files willy nilly It would quickly run into problems. I would guess vim keeps it's temp files in /tmp and config files in ~/.vimrc?
Windows doesn't/didn't have any of this. If you want to be compatible with lotus123 and lotus123 writes it's tmp files to the root directory, you need to keep it writable, or you break lotus123.
Sorry I thought it was the president of the US that imposed tariffs, threatened to invade Canada and Greenland, wanted to remove all Gazans from Gaza, etc, etc. not some random Reddit poster. My mistake.
On the other hand in 2018 Europe managed to sort out LNG etc pretty quick.
I'm kind of surprised it hasn't been louder and faster after the tariffs came in, but we've already had investigation after investigation into monopoly practices, the EU is working on domestic payment processing. So the political will is there. I assume they're just quietly getting on with sorting it out.
Is slightly disagree. Trump brought in the tariffs based on trade imbalances. Bringing services into the conversation would highlight that there isn't a trade imbalance. But then I'm not trying to guess what trump might do with any given input.
So really the conversation should come down to how well Linux plays Fortnite then. And bringing up games that 'no one plays' is irrelevant.
You can't have it both ways. Either it's only relevant that Linux plays the big games that are on steam, or people can bring up edge cases where windows doesn't do so well.
Edge cases? There's a long history of brand new triple A games running poorly or not at all on Windows. Evstablished games have plenty of problems. There are millions on millions of support pages, forums, and the deep dark recesses of discord stacked with Windows gaming problems. Just because some folks don't have problems with Windows doesn't mean the problems don't exist. The windows user base is so vast it's easy to think there's no problem just because an individual doesn't see it in their little corner of the world.
I don't disagree but when the conversation is about red alert 2 and steering wheels and the response is nobody uses those, then it isn't valid to use the argument that Linux is useless when it runs everything.
For example 'the center' You are already talking about a subset of (probably English speaking) programmers let alone the population at large. So that's a bias there. And you've chosen the centre, other people may not agree with where you've put the centre. I for example am accused of being right wing and left wing. Presumably the accusers didn't think I was in the centre.
Having said all this, I do agree with your points, I don't think you'll have much luck actually improving the level of conversation though.
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