Microsoft, doing it’s part to make the world a better place.

    • @mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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      34 months ago

      Because it’s an uphill battle against monopolies.

      Blah blah blah the same argument.

      If you had a better product than Windows, for free, everyone would use it. You don’t, and you blame everyone except yourselves.

      Yellow card for ageism, ha-ha.

      Oh man am I having my first ‘these fucking kids’ moments? I think I am.

      Oh, so a piece of hardware the vendor of which didn’t care about Linux support. How is this an OS problem?

      Because if I can’t use my tools with one OS, but I can with another, then the problem is with the OS that I cannot. Scanners are common peripherals my dude. Do you think windows would have sold if it didn’t support scanners?

      be pissed at Linux and its community if it’s a device driver problem.

      I’m pissed at the linux community because their answers were antagonistic, elitist, and useless. You asked for one example, I gave you one example yet the community has responded in the same way each time.

      In your example the problem is with the vendor of the device.

      Keep thinking that way and waiting for all vendors to start distributing their own linux drivers, see how far you get.

        • break1146
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          24 months ago

          That last sentence made me laugh out loud and it’s spot on. The amount of reverse engineering or getting drivers to work anyway that happens on Linux is already mind boggling.

          If the vendor doesn’t care, that’s just what it is.

        • @mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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          14 months ago

          Yes, the same correct argument.

          No it isn’t, I refuted it in my next sentence.

          I’ve already guessed you think that, only you don’t give any arguments supporting your opinion

          I don’t need to, simple market forces make that clear. If you have a free product that is easily available that outcompetes paid products, the market will shift to the free product. If it does not then it isn’t outcompeting the competition.

          Why would you pay for McDonald’s if Smashburger was free?

          You’ve yourself said there’s no official driver, so the entirety of the described problem is with the hardware vendor.

          How naive. Linux is the unsupported underdog here, and will not get more adoption by whining that vendors aren’t making drivers for it. The only answer is to roll your own. I explicitly stated that this lack of hardware support is one of the things holding back linux from greater adoption, do you disagree with this? If you agree, then you know drivers must be written. If the manufacturer has no interest in doing it, then who will?

          Windows doesn’t even support browsers

          Are you fucking high? I really don’t even know how to respond to this. I’m starting to think you are just copy pasting ChatGPT output.

          but it’s vendor’s fault.

          Whining isn’t going to raise your ridiculous OS’s adoption rating, bro.

            • @mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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              14 months ago

              You have denied it, not refuted it.

              Wow, you may want to take a class in rhetoric.

              You don’t know shit about market forces either, and I’m ancap, LOL.

              Wrong on the first part, and doesn’t matter on the second. Market forces exist regardless of your economic religion.

              If a ride to get Smashburger costs more in time and money than McDonalds.

              OOOH YOU ARE SO FUCKING CLOSE! Not that you will ever admit it.

              Now apply that to the time and energy that goes into standing up a linux desktop vs windows.

              You if you need it. Nobody’s going to do what you need for you.

              Then I won’t be using linux now will I? AND HERE YOU SEE WHERE ELITISM GETS YOUR RIDICULOUS EXCUSE FOR AN OS.

              Imagine if you got a phone, but before you could use the soft keyboard you had to write your own driver for it. HOW WELL DO YOU THINK THAT PHONE WOULD SELL?! How do you think people would treat it even if they got it for free?

              You can respond with thanking me on your knees

              Elitist shitbag proving my point at the speed of light.

              Literally nothing you have written is meaningful or useful, I hereby banish you from my internet forever.