sgtlion [any]

Installing dual boot over a default windows installation would be tricky, bordering on infeasible. Because you would need to shrink the windows partition live (which is not supported (and even if you could, requires free space and comes with meaningful risk of data loss)) and alter the UEFI boot entries, which is also very risky and engineered to be protected from unauthorised writes.

Even if you got around all those limitations, Windows can constantly erase your Linux boot entries (thanks Microsoft), making a dual boot-on-one disk setup basically unusable every month which needs to be fixed. So thanks to this Windows behavior, this setup won’t work on many systems.

So you’ll pretty much only ever be able to install to another disk. And the portion of non-tech savvy users with a spare, unused disk is going to be effectively nonexistent.

Don’t get me wrong, an install-from-windows feature would be nice, but I don’t think it could feasibly overcome any meaningful barriers.

I very much disagree still. Yes, proles can be sufficiently bribed to support bourgeois rule, and it makes them arses, and it makes them reactionary, but it doesn’t change their material interest, which is basically the main point of class analysis.

I find this labour aristocracy point to typically be pushed by people who think it’s a modern phenomenon, when it really isn’t. Marx saw colonialism and the countries’ worth of bribed, reactionary proles it made, but that really isn’t important to the point he was making with the class model.

Even wealthy proles would substantially and materially benefit from the overhaul capitalism. Thus, class consciousness would and should reasonably lead them to support socialism. That is the point.

You clearly 100% did not understand my point, as I entirely agree with your points here. Sorry if that’s my bad.

What makes you think OP does not want those things??? The whole premise of the post is OP struggling to address and cope with their loneliness.

This is like someone saying “I can’t afford to eat enough protein” and your response is “have more money.” Duh, we all know, that is literally THE problem.

It’s the Linux kernel. Android is inarguably a flavour of Linux.

Linux definitively does dominate the end user market. You just mean the end user desktop/laptop market.

I agree though that preinstallation is the biggest deal. The fact that people have to install Linux at all is the problem. The installer itself is already 100x better than the Windows one, but that’s not enough.

Not to mention it means manufacturers ensure all the hardware is compatible, drivers etc are installed and working, which is why windows users feel it works better.

Same issue though. If manufacturers actually had linux preinstalled, they would ensure compatibility. This isn’t a windows/Linux problem, this is a manufacturer/default os problem.

I am amazed by what you say though. I’ve had 0 hardware problems installing Linux on many different machines in the past 5 years. All the incompatibility issues of old are gone by my perspective

A guy explicitly hired to create “anticommunist” propaganda. Who has been caught out on a bewildering number of lies. I trust that guy.

This is definitely a frustration. I think there are very valid criticisms of, and problems with, the way China has handled Xinjiang. But western claims are so far from the truth that talk on what should be/is being done is effectively suppressed in favour of arguing over total falsehoods.

I gots sharp teeth I tell yah

If I didn’t write code? Network… make… worker…

On first read, I assumed the title asked what would be my second career choice. Other than self employment, that would be gardener.

In terms of contributed code, obviously yeah. But there’s a lot more work involved in development than just that, plus all the basically necessary addons.

I never really understood why mozilla insists on being a corporate entity in the first place. Tons of (if not most?) it’s development comes from volunteers already. Just scale down to doing basic development moderation and rely on donations / collaborate with other open source orgs.

Mozilla is the most profit-oriented non-profit org I’ve seen.

Of course I Rage Against him, he’s me