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I feel like trying to persuade people to leave Windows purely from a privacy angle is being too specific or extreme for those who really don't care/gave up. I think a great, alternative way to win people over would be to simply point out how much more efficient it is and energy-saving for their own electric bills.

Just don't warn them about how much energy they may end up ironically expending as a result of tinkering with it and fixing issues and finding cool stuff like Burn My Windows, haha... ๐Ÿคซ

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[โ€“] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not really our 'problem'. We can get some adoption without meeting every closed source corner case. That adoption will bring better support as the market moves

Perfect is the enemy of better. Let's get the adoption story to be better. It doesn't need to be perfect.

[โ€“] makeshift0546@lemmy.today -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘ you'll get so many dudes by telling them to toss their Nvidia card away and go buy this specific motherboard so your Bluetooth works ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘

Valve released a proprietary device that bumped usage 2% and y'all still believe this shit. Amazing. Just constant self sabotage.

The only reason nix + gaming is as popular as it is, is because valve has made those drivers useable and packed it up as neatly as possible.

[โ€“] yuri@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

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