What else am I missing?
The fact that 90% of people don't give a shit about ads, privacy or their operating system in general. They want a machine to open a browser, that's it. If Windows comes pre-installed, they'll use Windows.
The only realistic chance we've got is that MS shoots itself in the foot once more by all that Recall crap and businesses drop Windows. But that's a long shot.
The only way to stop a suicide with a gun, is a homicide with a gun.
I had to present such slips several times.
But I'm living in a city where the queues for apartments is 50 people long.
It's common in Germany to get a "reference" from your current landlord that basically just says "paid rent on time and didn't set anything on fire".
I'm not sure, a bullet in the head is - among all the others - one of the better ways to go. Maybe preferably at 70, not 17, but still.
It's actually astounding, how weirdly unmaintained Windows is in many areas. Just look at the settings chaos. There are three completely different settings trees, and at least for me, it's impossible to know which one to choose for a given task.
There's constantly stuff going on in the background for no reason and updates take forever and require 7 reboots. That's not okay.
I could see those as an option for rural areas without much traffic. A full train might not be economical, but a small pod is. It could transport people to the closest proper train station where they can hop off.
But that would mean you'd have to maintain a ton of tracks for a handful of people.
(((THEY))) don't want that, though!!!!
Well, we have already.
The Internet was designed to be resilient against nuclear war. Most protocols are resilient, it's just been the last few years that some companies abused their positions (Cloudflare, Google) and it also came to light, that some protocols have been designed with a tad too much trust (BGP, SMTP).
Rather the wrong ones.
95% seem to be essentially professional box tickers. They don't care about security, but only about process compliance. As long as the scanner finds no CVEs, the app is secure.
I want people who actually know, how I can improve my code. I'm pretty sure I screwed up security stuff, but will never know.
And then - poof! - all the evidence disappears!
I'm starting to wonder, do you have to be willing to rape women to become famous or does fame make you a rapist? It seems like half of the celebrity sphere has some form of allegation against them.
... And then something happens and they want you to install Windows again.
As much as I like Linux, compared to Windows and Mac OS it's high maintenance. Once in a while, things will bork themselves. And you need to have at least a rough understanding of what's happening to fix it.
Also (and that's not a Linux problem per se) people seem to think if Windows breaks, MS or they themselves are at fault, if Linux breaks, that weird nerd and his hacker stuff are at fault.