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MS screwing us with software. Apple screwing us with hardware upgrades. Linux out there taking all survivors

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Wait what’s apple been up to?

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Broadly: Constructing their hardware so it’s impossible to repair or upgrade by anyone but them (or at all), then lobbying against any attempts to legislate the ‘right to repair’.

Check out the work of Louis Rossmann for details.

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Oh I thought this was something new they were doing. Same old shit they’ve always been up to. Got it

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They actually support right to repair laws. The joke is that they will make their hardware so difficult to repair that they are the only ones who can do it.

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LOL what are they not up to?

To put it very succinctly: they want to control you and your very expensive hardware that you buy from them.

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Linux suffers from being a patchwork of hobbyists updates, corporate additions, and patchy distro support. When it comes down to it, if you have an issue, you either have to solve it on your own or hope and pray the elitists on StackOverflow are in a good mood.

Honestly, every OS kinda sucks.

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“Patchwork” sounds like a good way to describe Windows as well. Or at least it was when I was a Windows 10 sysadmin and there were two different settings menus to do everything.

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Control panel and Settings, right? It got on my nerves as well.

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Apple and Microsoft support aren’t exactly awesome, either, unless you’re a big business with deep pockets. At least with Linux, the system is open, so if there is a way to solve my problem, someone has almost certainly found it already and added it to Arch Wiki or Stack Overflow or something.

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Yet almost every os in the world relies on some sort of “hobbyist” updates. Including windows.

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