Yeah, this sounds like Louis Rossmann’s “rapist mentality” that he’s been harping on for a while. They think they own your hardware just because they make software, so they’ll force you to do whatever they think is “best” for you (which is probably using more of their products).
Just say no.
Software should give you an incentive to upgrade. I use Linux 100%, and I’m excited to use the next version because it’ll fix issues and add features that I’ll actually want to use. I’m on openSUSE, and here are some things that I’ve been excited about recently:
KDE 6 - fixed Wayland for me, so I was able to switch back from GNOME
reproducible builds - I can now theoretically verify that everything I install is built properly instead of having to trust them
cockpit is coming to Leap 15.6 - YaST on the CLI is cool, but clunky; this sounds like I’d get largely the same thing, but through a web browser (i.e. access a port via SSH tunnel, no remote GUI required)
Software should entice you to upgrade, not force you to upgrade. That has never been the case for me for Windows, so I bailed and now use Linux, where it absolutely is the case.
It’s called possessiveness when humans do it. Thinking of someone as your possession. It doesn’t have the bite to it as a term but it’s 100% the case that companies think they own their users.
I loooove my openSUSE desktop. 11 was the last straw. No amount of AI is going to bring me back.
I HATE advertisements, and I paid for Pro but it seemed like they didn’t care. They want to milk me for everything I’m worth.
Good thing we have options. Linux has gotten so good, it’s better than Windows 11 while letting me decide how to use the OS. Big learning curve, but it’s smooth sailing when you get past it.
Yeah, this sounds like Louis Rossmann’s “rapist mentality” that he’s been harping on for a while. They think they own your hardware just because they make software, so they’ll force you to do whatever they think is “best” for you (which is probably using more of their products).
Just say no.
Software should give you an incentive to upgrade. I use Linux 100%, and I’m excited to use the next version because it’ll fix issues and add features that I’ll actually want to use. I’m on openSUSE, and here are some things that I’ve been excited about recently:
Software should entice you to upgrade, not force you to upgrade. That has never been the case for me for Windows, so I bailed and now use Linux, where it absolutely is the case.
I don’t think we should call it that but damned if the analogy doesn’t fit.
Yeah, perhaps “authoritarian mentality” would be better, but that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
It’s called possessiveness when humans do it. Thinking of someone as your possession. It doesn’t have the bite to it as a term but it’s 100% the case that companies think they own their users.
I loooove my openSUSE desktop. 11 was the last straw. No amount of AI is going to bring me back.
I HATE advertisements, and I paid for Pro but it seemed like they didn’t care. They want to milk me for everything I’m worth.
Good thing we have options. Linux has gotten so good, it’s better than Windows 11 while letting me decide how to use the OS. Big learning curve, but it’s smooth sailing when you get past it.