> Because people will shoot themselves in the foot if you give them a shotgun.
Correct. This is why gun safety is taught. Try and bring up banning shotguns in the US and see what happens.
Correct. This is why gun safety is taught. Try and bring up banning shotguns in the US and see what happens.
b) there are plenty of options for completely open computing platforms. Apple has every right to build the platform they want to build, and you as a consumer have every right to go buy a Framework laptop and install Debian on it instead if you don't like it
For now.
Younger folks are skipping computers entirely and doing their work on mobile devices. Computer literacy is falling. Demand for computers is going to continue falling as those kids grow up. They won't need to touch a computer unless their future job requires it. Not even school would need it - many already use their phone/tablet or a Chromebook to do school work.
Nobody is taking away our computers but, overall, they are being replaced with closed platforms. It is just a question of how much of them can actually be replaced and will it be a big enough market to keep developing desktop Windows/macOS/Linux?
that said, we've never been closer to Linux on the Desktop (TM) than we are right now, even if it's through dumb stuff like Omarchy. There's no risk today that you won't be able to, in 10 years, buy an x86 or ARM laptop and put some flavor of Linux on it for personal use