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15 Signs Linux Is Not For You (itsfoss.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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  1. You love giving your data away
  2. You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
  3. You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
  4. You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
  5. You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
  6. You’d rather battle corporate tech support
  7. You’d rather rent your software than own it
  8. You think ads belong on your desktop
  9. You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
  10. You like rebooting for every little update
  11. You’re uncomfortable when software is transparent
  12. You think community-made tools can’t be “professional”
  13. You want intrusive AI everywhere, whether it helps or not
  14. You think the command line is only for hackers
  15. You never really wanted your computer to be yours anyway
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[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Back on the 90s (I know, I know) the joke was that of your VCR was still blinking 12:00 Linux was probably not for you.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe this was true then, but my microwave never once knew what time it is

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Same, too many clocks, all getting out of sync, and some on power strips that get turned off periodically.