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Parry and hit back. Ask her why it matters what you use if you can function with them as if you use google. Then return fire with your favorite reason not to use google. For me, I like to open the dev tools in Firefox, and show the head of any website. Let them choose. Find the line with google analytics, google tag service, or google ad sense. "Wow this website has nothing to do with google. Why is this here? To track you. Did you know that google can track your mouse? Even if you don't click on anything? Or they can track you by installing fonts?" Etc. Etc. Scare the shit out of them and they'll leave you alone. Hopefully you can slowly begin to convert them.

I agree not sweeping Linux under the rug is important, but what about something like:

Doors: Powered by Linux

After all, Linux is just the kernel. It isn't the operating system

. Saying ”Powered By" is both accurate, and the brand recognition horse shit people go for

Make no mistake. I don't like that brand recognition is an important consideration, but it's important to recognize what works for many people

I can see where you are coming from and chrome os is a good and bad example of what I mean. It's a bad example because of the lack of transparency. It's a good example because it creates a "brand" around the product. Linux lacks brand recognition to the average person, and when we approach getting folks on Linux, we do one of two things. We pick a brand for them, or we explain what a distro is and that linux is actually the kernel and that its really GNU/Linux or GNU and Linux etc. I want to get to the point a non technical user makes the choice themselves

Outside of just buying computers with Linux one them, imo the best scenario would be if there was a recognized brand, like chromeos, which people could point to and say "you're good with computers and fuck windows. Can you install Doors?". You have to admit an operating system called "FuckWindows OS" would be appealing to those who utter the words several times per day.

I'm also not suggesting we go guns blazing into doing this so much as presenting a consideration why we are less effective than we'd like and what we could add to our focus to improve conversion rates.

TLDR: Linux, or our representation of it, is confusing to the average person. Could we address this with a distro whose purpose is to establish a stronger brand?

Not at all, but there is a difference between creating a finished product and creating a finished product a particular way. If you make a suggestion for how I do something, and it isn't stipulated to be part of the finished product, then I can do it however I want. If however part of the contract is I do it your way, then that matters. Hope that clarifies things

Interesting word choice. 'Suffering' for lack of weapons

Have you ever had a client who wanted something done but had an asinine suggestion for how to do it? Do you do it their way or do you focus on getting the job done? Unless it's a stipulation, you do it the way that gets the job done.

Unless there's a stipulation, there's no reason you must do it the way they suggest. Fuck off with that my money my rules shit.

Why would you piss in a sink?

This front page is re-Marx-able. I'm subscribing to the new york post!

I'm working on getting my parents off of onedrive. Would you suggest using syncthing over nextcloud?

Is there incentive to swim in a smaller pool? Otherwise far enough not to smell it.

Hyprland is transphobic

I'm the same way, but I end up buying something similar. Show me Wendy's and I'll eventually go to Burger King

I never exactly paid for any. Didn't exactly steal. Didn't exactly pay. I'd call it "appropriate"

Does anyone have a few optiplexes lying around?

The people could easily overthrow the U.S military and all the police who protect the corpos and stuff.

Why haven't we? It's not for lack of gun

That's just Florida being stupid

Perhaps, but the Florida Window is wide open

only thing that can save America is a revolution, and for that we need to be armed

The keyboard is mightier than the gun