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Why is this allowed to occur?

Why is Microsoft allowed to operate in such a user hostile way?

Why aren't people like up in arms massively tanking their stock value, boycotting, reputation harming in every legal way possible en masse?

Like are people just careless and distracted 24/7?

Like surely this should just not be a thing?

I just don't understand how inhumane hostile behavior is just so rampant and like allowed to exist in our society.

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Because the only mechanism to hold these mega corporations / billionaires accountable is government, and they're already powerful enough to have waged massive information wars convincing people to fight each other instead of them.

Eventually, enough is enough.

1789.

That's actually not the only way we can hold them to account.

>I just don't understand how inhumane hostile behavior is just so rampant and like allowed to exist in our society.

It's because that's the default. Do you see any other facet of human organization which doesn't have constant hostile behavior? If it's large enough, or going on for enough time, there is abuse happening in it.

>Like are people just careless and distracted 24/7?

People just want to live their lives, on which a removed Win 11 bypass video has zero effect.

Because people like my mom don't know there is an alternative and people like my dad thinks OSS has ties to communism (really, I wish I was joking) and MacOS is for hipsters. Doesn't matter that I work for a FAANG company and we use and contribute to OSS or that my work laptop is a Mac.

Wait... OSS doesn't have ties to communism?

Then what have I been using and supporting it for?

Why should I care that much what Microsoft is doing? I sold my Windows 11 computer long ago and haven't looked back. In fact, more user-hostile they get the better that is for the Linux ecosystem which is better for me!

I think it will be better with a little bit higher marketshare, but once the masses come in they demand stuff like kernel-level anticheat, DRM and to never accidentally run things in a terminal and then it will become way worse. Linux is as user-friendly as it is, because it is used by professionals and power users and the masses use something else.

That's why we have different distributions. Let one of the distributions cater to those who don't want control of their own computer.

Yes, and this is how a healthy OS market should look like, but a lot of distros use the same kernel.

Linux can exist because there is a huge industry producing inexpensive open hardware. If that industry transitions to producing only locked down hardware, it will hurt Linux and all open source software. Be careful what you wish for.

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