GNU/Linux Isn't About Replacing Microsoft But About Replacing Proprietary Software
The ultimate goal is to put computer users in control of the computers they're buying (digital decolonisation of sorts)
THE media, sans Microsofters, started speaking about GNU/Linux as a laptop/desktop platform with greater respect. Not the dismissive FUD.
In prior years that same media was stigmatising GNU/Linux as "haters", usually "Microsoft haters". As if there was nothing to it other than negative vibe.
History tells a different story. GNU was a response to Xerox, not Microsoft, when Microsoft was still a small company less than a decade in age.
Why are so many of us eager to promote GNU/Linux and less enthusiastic about Snaps or Flatfak?
GNU/Linux distros are a carrier of Free software. They come with loads of it preinstalled.
Even the Arch-based (with KDE) SteamOS, which pushes Steam DRM, basically drags about 1,000 free programs onto your hands. Free as in freedom... if only you ignore the Steam client part.
Replacing Windows would be good and getting rid of Microsoft would be a necessary side effect (all it has right now is hype, vapourware, accounting fraud for "clown computing", and prototypes that don't quite perform as promised/advertised).
Suffice to say, even if Microsoft vanished overnight, GNU/Linux users and sites/capsules like this one* would carry on promoting what they are promoting at the moment. The fight will never "end" because there will always be companies out there trying to make their programs more malicious (exercising control over users/governments/other companies for profit) and maybe openwashing a bit to disguise their true agenda and objectives.
Let's emancipate ourselves and help others accomplish the same. █
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