Steam is a nice service but good god the glazing needs to stop. On Steam you do not own your games.

Replace the steamdeck with a SBC handheld and this is me.

Linux will never become relevant on the desktop until its has better spyware support.

“But I am more than happy to root around the registry and make changes to obscure variables that will be reverted in the next update”

“No, you don’t understand, Linux is not desktop ready, I know that because I installed Fedora back in 2008 and it was kinda wonky.”

You don’t even have to install it to try it out, just boot from USB into live mode.

Self-Hosting? What happened to saving things onto a hard drive?

Madness? Buying a new computer every 2 years because the OS vendor is in cahoots with hardware manufacturers is madness. This is rational usage of resources for your benefit.

Now only if there were a nice alternative to Android. I might get a Fairphone with Ubuntu touch.

Hwaet is witþ þe þorn?

This would make more sense with Emacs /ducks

Name calls people who read documentation.

Does not offer any alternative.

“No John, you are the neckbeards!”

Jeez, maybe the technican deserves a nice blowie, field work isn’t easy y’know.

I am the smug well guy in this picture. You can complain and whine about Microsoft’s shitty practices to people who have no way of effecting them…oooorr you can use a different OS. Kind of a “better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” deal.

Proprieatary software has become completely unusable, programs that would have been labeled adware and spyware are now being pushed by corporations as the norm. I use open source software in my workflow, but I am still hobbled by Microsoft’s awful OS.

You install Linux to run cool software.

I install Linux to run cool software.

We are exactly the same.

Affinity suite is dirt cheap and is a single purchase, none of that licensing crap.

The Windows ecosystem is an abominable pile of half-finished apps and dark patterns that should be slam dunked into the trash. The problem is in the leadership that is laser-focused on milking business users who are used to Microsoft’s abusive practices.

Why? The browser client is ok.

I use gimp for professional graphic design at my workplace, nobody gives a shit.