Honestly, I agree with @StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net
Ok fair enough, but I wouldn’t have installed Linux if I had not seen it recommended.
I’m not a computer toucher, but I can follow written advice.
These sorts of posts always scold anyone giving out actual solutions just so being miserable can continue. This cultural thing almost has an end of history type vibe to it. It’s also pretty hostile to divergent and often solution focused neurotypes.
Linux evangelism kinda makes sense, no one is spending billions on marketing and ads for it. I think Linux evangelists should ask about use cases first, instead of just posting a generic “use Linux”.
That is true, I’d just want to add that for me, even though Linux has many flaws lurking underneath, the broader issues stem from Capitalism, again as you noted.
It’s because the FLOSS movement and Linux for that matter is weird in that regard. Most popular FOSS software has funding from a lot of orgs and other donors, and only really work because of ‘donations’. Some say (right-adjacent libs) that this is because it is inherently unprofitable and hobbyist in nature (FOSS) and that either find a way to make money off of it or risk burnout. But us, we say, abolish capitalism or at least make sure that we can coherently organize, plan and subsidize FLOSS for everyone, so that developers can focus on features and if/how to implement them.
I do think that even in a state subsidized like computer running Linux or whatever there should still be alternatives and stuff, like… yes, flatpaks or the equivalent should be made better and standard in socialism, but having appimages (or snaps, but they’re… weird) around wouldn’t be bad either, only really needs people to be interested in the format itself.
I wonder how a Linux kernel fork of like a theoretical socialist state would work…? Hmm. (I say fork because it’s… complicated in how the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds will handle a theoretical socialist state using Linux, though the PRC has Deepin, right?)