The last time I was meaningfully using Linux was around the time of Ubuntu 8.04 - my experience was the opposite of this.
When I have the time, I'll be dipping back in on Zorin (which I think defaults to modded KDE) - I've spun up VM, and it seems like it's worth a shot... I just need to confirm it'll play the small handful of games I play, find a slicer app, and pull the trigger. Damn near everything else is Web-based or self-hosted.
They are dominant in search, ads, browser, mobile hardware, mobile os, mapping, and email. They're using their dominance to corece users, and are just getting away with it. The influence they have over the Internet is second to none, and it shows they've dropped the whole "don't be evil" thing.
Have I not made it crystal clear that I don't give a fuck, so long as you vote to keep the fascists out on election day, and then work to improve things at any other moment in the election cycle?
The fact that you keep coming back to disagree with me and call me a lib when you're doing exactly what I'm advocating for is unhinged.
I'm uninterested in the rest of your nonsense (particularly given your deeply weird behavior), and there's no value in dismantling it.
If you're concerned about theft, this is objectively correct - Walmart steal more through wage theft than shoplifters steal from them.
Similarly, in terms of harm done, stealing even a flatscreen TV has an imperceptible impact on the Walton family, while stealing wages from an employee that's so underpaid, their wages need to be supplemented with publicly funded food stamps is crippling.
I recognise the problems. The issue that that your solution to those problems is to make them all worse, burn democracy to the ground and cause a bunch of genocides because that'll somehow magically make it better.
I think I might have overestimated you when I called you an accelerationist - between the incoherent pseudo-leftist nonsense, American diabolist leanings, "fixing" things by electing fascists, performative third-party nonsense, and calling everyone a lib... Are you a Jimmy Dore fan?
The fascists are the enemy - you're just their useful idiot... and what an idiot you are.
Oh - that I just don't care about. Do you care about the wage theft they're committing? It's at a far larger scale than any shoplifting.
Why are you so concerned with protecting a massive multi-billionaire-owned company plagued with ethical issues? Are those billionaire boots super-tasty or something?
Joke's on you, Ben - we've been attacking you for years with the gay agenda, CRT, letting kids know that gay and trans people exist, fighting for abortion rights, Antifa, BLM, women's suffrage, contraception, emancipation...
I guess we can just revisit this in February then. If the time to get through the mess remains around 90 minutes, we'll call that one for induced demand. I think a meaningful reduction from that mark toward the actual baseline with induced demand is going to prove otherwise.
The way I see it, you're doing a public service...
You're creating jobs in loss prevention.
You're helping make the case for retaining more checkout workers.
You're keeping those minimum-wage checkout supervisors safe by not putting them in a position to intervene with desperate people trying to feed themselves.
You're helping the store avoid wage theft by having you play unpaid, untrained, unqualified security guard.
You're helping the needy feed themselves.
Give yourself a pat on the back, you local hero! 🫡
I worked at a supermarket in a wealthy area for years - no one stole more than the wealthy old crones from the retirement village next around the corner.
Ah - you're an accelerationist - there's not a party that perfectly represents you, so you'll vote in a way that'll give power to the fascists so they make everything worse, end democracy, ramp up support for the foreign genocide, and commit a bunch domestically so the survivors get fed up enough to hopefully revolt and dismantle that government entirely, rebuild from scratch, and hopefully build something better. Because getting a bunch of workers killed while making life worse for everyone is the strategic, pro-worker thing to do.
You don't need to burn everything to the ground and get a bunch of workers killed to organise. You deserve to be first against the wall when the fascists win.
It's a little too... European for a Texan regressive.