> You (and people like you) need to realize what makes Windows, Android, and iOS/MacOS successful: It's because they enable users to use computers as practical tools.
What makes this cancer “successful” is the insane consumer exploitation that it enables, which motivates unfathomable amounts of money to be thrown at it to establish the monopolies. There’s no way out anymore and the entire society is suffering, except the venture capitalists who created this hell with cheap money due to decades of quantitative easing. Open your eyes at the tragedy around you instead of being so absorbed in your tech bro saviour complex.
>What makes this cancer “successful” is the insane consumer exploitation that it enables
>Open your eyes at the tragedy around you instead of being so absorbed in your tech bro saviour complex.
I'll fire those words right back at you, particularly the bit about being a tech bro saviour.
Computers are tools, tools that are practical will win mass adoption. FOSS as far as the zealots are concerned aren't even tools let alone practical, which is why they never win the mainstream audience.
Do you know why the Steam Deck has been successful where everything else prior to it failed? Because it is a practical tool, specifically to play games. Most of the customers buying it don't care what it runs so long as it plays games.
Concern yourself with making a better screwdriver, not whether the screwdriver is made from the finest libre materials.
This is a very naive view. Deployed capital fabricates adoption and the current state of consumer tech is a great case study for this. Rational demand in consumer markets is a fantasy.
