- Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser.
- The report highlights how Microsoft interrupts the installation process of Google Chrome on Windows devices, promoting the security and privacy benefits of Edge.
- Mozilla calls for regulatory action to restore browser choice and competition across major platforms.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/koBY6
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Well there’s your problem!
Alright, continue to suffer on Windows. Or fix it yourself
Is this how you advocate for Linux?
I don’t want entitled people who want everything done for them for free and expect it to compete with an evil company that steals from their pockets without their knowing. If you don’t want to join unless I pave the way just the way you like, you better get your gloves on and help a hand. Linux doesn’t ‘need’ to win nor does it to include everyone. If people want to learn, get started or need help, I’ll help them in a heartbeat. If someone expects, well demands, I do their work for them, they can get fucked with an anchor.
Edit:
Currently I have helped about 25 people to get from Windows to a few different distro’s, helped them set up and aided them when they needed me. I give advice on different Discord servers, used to do it on Reddit but Reddit went to shit, and now try to do so here.
But I cannot aid someone, who asks me to do their work for them.
Quoting the conversation you replied to:
Yes, the wording of “when Linux gets around to supporting” was bad and can be interpreted as “Linux needs to do the work”. We who are familiar with Linux know that game support depends on the game’s developer, not on any certain OS or plarform. You need to keep in mind that not everyone is as proficient with operating systems as we are, and thus not everybody might be aware who is at fault for lack of support.
You belittled the person in your comment, first assuming that they “suffer” on Windows, and then telling them to fix it themselves. You can’t have meant that genuinely; after recognizing that they misunderstood the support situation, it should have been obvious to you that they’re not capable of fixing the support themselves. So it must have been a snarky remark of yours and little more.
Instead of being this condescending, your comment should have been educational, explaining whose fault the lack of support actually is. Not even necessarily for the person you replied to, but for the sake of everyone else who finds this thread at a later point in time.
Even if you don’t need Linux to win, I ask you that you consider how your comments reflect on the Linux community at large. What will people think when they see how you reply to people voicing their concerns?
Would you be happy being part of a community that although representing a genuine effort towards freedom from big tech, is perceived as elitist and insular by outsiders? I use Linux too, and I wouldn’t be.
You make a valid point, I shall address my comments made. My assumptions made are a bit crass and short-sighted.
Why bother trying to convince people like you who only complain about Windows, but are way too lazy to do anything about? It’s just a waste of my time. I’d much rather gloat about how I don’t have to deal with crap like this. Don’t come on here and expect sympathy for something that is entirely within your power to change.
Alright, go ahead and do that. Surely that’ll help the mainstream perception of Linux and its community.