I miss how i used to think Capitalism was healthy and competition from rival businesses fostered innovation - until they all teamed up against us :(
until they all teamed up against us
That’s what the “deregulation” “conservatives” have been screeching about for the past few decades is all about.
Imagine a system that incentivises greed and self-interest, and which runs on competition.
Now run that simulation through your mind a few decades.
If it doesn’t end up with vastly fewer companies competing over vastly larger portions of the market, your simulation wasn’t set up accurately.
Now is the right time to start a small business migrating Windows 10 EOL machines to Linux for people who can’t afford new machines and offering service plans to help them if they’re stuck.
That’s basically how Red Hat does it for corporations, they don’t sell Linux, but they sell service and support for it.
Will it be exceptionally profitable? Not at all.
Will it be a pro-social and helpful thing to do for your community while making maybe enough money to scrape by? Yes.
This is how you build community.
EDIT: If you’re independently wealthy or have the support structures, you can also just do it all for free which is even more pro-social, but most of us need at least a meager income in exchange for our time and labor to stay alive, sadly.
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that mint iso is just sitting there. mocking me.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the video games I’m playing in Mint.
My 2009 i5 pc is still going strong on Fedora. With a 1060, can play most of the games.
Still have a 2009 Acer Aspire One running. Slow but fine for web and email and doc editing. Also small and battery lasts quite a while.
Can’t be properly third world without a modern computing deficit, right? 🤔
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Microsoft pissed me off so much last week I finally listened to the fedi hive mind and installed mint. Feels good man.
Joke’s on them, life with an old laptop, a new battery,and Debian is amazing
It’s always been this way…
A long long time ago, when I got my first PC, one single MB of ram was $100, so having 4mb was pretty boss! But then win95 dropped and demanded 8mb of ram to run anywhere near half decent, this happens with every Gen of new windows platforms
Still on Mint. Haven’t needed to load my windows drive up in weeks. My non-tech enthusiast partner is coming around to trying Linux after seeing what a shitshow 11 is on her work computer. It would be great to get her to switch over before my 140 dollar bill for Office 365 needs to be renewed.
I’ve also got some other family members who are interested in trying it out, which is really saying something for a group of people who got started with Win 95, and are very proficient and comfortable in Microsoft’s ecosystem.
