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6 years on my manjaro install, zero problems.

Same.

It's not a jerk.

GNU/Linux literally gives you the ability to control your own operating system.

You can dose yourself in radiation until you're puking all over the place or you can actually cut the cancer out.

There are plenty of questions that linux isn't a great answer for, but for this question, it really is the solution.

Quit what? Lmao.

I'd settle for a good ole-fashion court appointed hanging.

It sure can work that way. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

You mean I can get all this stuff for free and all you can do to stop me is try to scare high schoolers?

I sleep on my back without a pillow.

But I still have a pillow so I can look at my phone.

Same rodeo, new clowns.

Don't go to college.

Ah yeah, just withdraw all the liquidity that is most certainly there...

You have just demonstrated more faith in neolib pretendy dollaridos than I have or will never have.

I didn't learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It's also a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pecorino Romano is better anyways

EU has lots of protected origin products.

You can put a myriad of setup and administration options into the GUI and most people still have no interest in them. These people just have no interest in using a computer like that. They "just want it to work". It's not a CLI v. GUI problem, it's one of assumed responsibility.

This is an inherent limitation of “free as in freedom” software.

"Free as in freedom" really only refers to developers. The non-developers are beholden to whoever packages and distributes their software for them. We Linux users who aren't system developers let the "distro maintainers" do the developer work for us. That's why a distro's website is full of mission statements and declarations of philosophy--it's how we decide who to trust.

And it's the same for the "non-nerds" with system administration. Businesses hire admins to handle their internal software and networks, and at home people let Apple, Microsoft or Google take increasingly more control over their devices so that they aren't responsible for getting it all working.

They're only available for pre-order, they ship in 3-6 months.

Apple's success came from Microsoft's negligence. Too many people had Windows XP computers at home wrecked with toolbars and spyware and garbage.

And people gladly left for a walled garden platform that locked down everything and didn't require them to administer their own systems.

The biggest success in the Linux world has been Chromebooks and Android, where Google administers the system for the user.

Most people don't choose linux because they can't administer their own system. A system that lets them administer however they want has no appeal to them. They instinctively know they can't handle that responsibility. They need their hands held.

Made of Unobtainium.

I do not trust things in my phone to stay private.

Nations with strong socialist policies can be still capitalist. See the EU.