I want more small communities with people who really like specific things. For example if you want to buy a robot vacuum going to a community about it is very nice to read up on what people find important and maybe issues with a particular model. Even the memes sometimes have great info (think something like a popular vacuum that doesn't pick up anything with "At least you tried" or spongebob meme pointing at stuff of increasing sizes referencing areas the vacuum missed)
There's a podcast somewhere where a guy narrates uses amazing voice acting and music to deliver the story and it's an absolute banger of a trilogy. One of the most magical experiences I've had. It's like watching the movies but longer, better paced and way more emotional connection to the characters.
The movies don't say what the people are thinking and the actors did a phenomenal job to convey it, but the book explicitly saying it is better.
Snaps sucks, canonical sucks, Amazon integration sucks, KDE updates are years behind which also sucks, pushing snaps over deb sucks, pushing snap over flatpak sucks.
However, Ubuntu is a great distro. Incredibly stable, very well tested and polished. Installation is super easy and hardware support is very good, unless you got some very new hardware.
I recommend Ubuntu to a lot of people even though I'd never use it myself. Most people just want their computer to work.
Systemd is not that bad. It's pretty stable, modular and frees up a ton of time for OS developers. Sure, Alpine's init system is faster but it also has fewer features.
The problem is not having the monopoly, it's exploiting it's qualities. Google for example exploits the fact that they know how much ad revenue each site makes them and thus can rank them higher. They also can rank their own products such as YouTube or Chrome. Another exploitation of their monopoly is that Google is the default search engine of Chrome instead of giving the user choices
There is no issue with YouTube, another monopoly, since it's business model is driving engagement and making money from ads but not exploiting its position.
Valve is another monopoly but it doesn't block people from putting their own launchers onto their platform. It doesn't block you from installing another store like Apple does and in general is nowhere near as all-encompassing as Google.
I did computer science 5 years ago and it was mostly good. I used KDE Neon before it was considered a real user distro by developers so I had some Wayland issues. When I tried to use the commandline and edit config files manually I messed stuff up but using the distro as intended was always nice and easy.
Your milage may vary depending on what programs your school forces you to use because universities don't support anything except Linux and Mac. I want to argue for accessibility but teachers don't care enough.
Capitalism is way further along the chain of economic system development.
It essentially builds upon coinage and debt systems to be able to issue credit for people to invest in land and equipment to increase productivity of workers.
Capitalism is not strictly necessary but it did speed up the productivity development without spreading the gains equally. Right now we have a great opportunity to take these productivity gains and split them equitably via wealth redistribution but people will need to vote left for that.
It's not capitalism itself that is bad it's mostly how it's being used and the built-in accumulation of money that translates to power that translates to political power that's the problem with it.
Capitalism as a force for good is a lie, it's a force for increasing productivity and investment and accumulation of wealth. Capitalism itself is just another tool to be used by the people for the people.
80% of people have never tried Linux and I'm pretty sure 80% of people only use computers for browsers, email and basic word processing. For those use cases almost every Linux just works. Meanwhile Windows is dropping support for old hardware so it'll just stop working.
I mean, sure, if you buy a computer with Windows on it it'll most likely just work for most of it's lifespan but if you buy a Tuxedo laptop it's pretty much supported for life.
In my opinion the UX and customization in windows is complete garbage so it very much doesn't just work for me.
For sure, realising your situation for what it is is an advantage. It sounds like you're the type of person to get an advantage out of it. Like for example strategic land buying in India if you have the money can make you relatively wealthy over time. I want to say money isn't everything but given I'm from Europe I feel like my opinion doesn't apply.
Either way, I'm sure you will at the bare minimum have an average life given how much aware you are so you got that going. Best of luck man
This one goes right to the feels. I've got pretty good experience with using SSR components to generate static html with components. I'm currently using dotnet and blazor where I can make email components like a button and an image as easy as that might sound.
Best way to not lose data is to never delete it. Buying a new hard drive can definitely do that but backing up everything you want is completely fine too.
If you don't want to lose data you have to keep it somewhere. Current hard drive is a good choice.
Well... You've been dealt a bad hand and I'm not sure how to help you. You can do the IT career path via educating yourself but that's not easy. It's hard to cut yourself above the rest although it's possible.
First thing you could do though is to accept things for how they are. People are going to throw trash until someone with authority will tell them it's wrong and then you'll need a generation for the change to happen.
You'll not be able to fix India by yourself and I'm not sure if anyone can but over time things will slowly get better. Emigrating is an option, although hard and going into politics can work but that's even harder.
But honestly, I feel like this is all things you already know. These are my completely useless two cents.
I think it's basically people just thinking "I want to get rid of this" and just drop/throw trash. Then if forced to think about it they'll just rationalise it with "It'll degrade over time" or "It's not that big of a deal" or "I'm creating jobs for cleaners"
My OS makes my computer just work. I'm on KDE Neon which is "unstable" but in my case just works. Ubuntu just works. Fedora just works. Mint just works. Debian just works. Windows just works. For every use case? No.
Windows is just another OS. It's a good one, but not for every use case.
Seconded that. Debian is pretty much always outdated, DIY Arch is easy to get wrong but I think Endeavour would have worked even though I don't know all to much.
However saying Linux is not stable enough without trying Ubuntu is not fair IMO.
Mulniplayer on Linux is bad and has been since anti cheat systems became the norm. Anti cheat systems often request kernel access (like Crowdstrike) and Linux is just not suitable for that.
Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with your distro. It can happen, not all hardware behaves equally well on Linux and differences between distros are huge. Some even don't run the latest kernel.
Out of curiosity, did you try Fedora, Ubuntu, KDE Neon, Kubuntu or Linux Mint? These are in my opinion great general public distros that are very stable. Ubuntu and Mint notably is lacking in Wayland support but KDE Neon and Fedora are very good at it.
Also, did you try running the desktop with X11 instead of Wayland?
I'd also recommend having another drive with the Linux distro so you can jump back and forth easier and test out new distros without having your computer potentially unusable.
I want more small communities with people who really like specific things. For example if you want to buy a robot vacuum going to a community about it is very nice to read up on what people find important and maybe issues with a particular model. Even the memes sometimes have great info (think something like a popular vacuum that doesn't pick up anything with "At least you tried" or spongebob meme pointing at stuff of increasing sizes referencing areas the vacuum missed)