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Linux crosses 4% market share

GTA VII projected to be released in 2050.

The devs for Lemmy are Marxists and they setup lemmy.ml as the first lemmy instance. They chose .ml because for them it stands for Marxist-Leninist, despite what ICANN officially regards it as.

Also, like you point out, the instance pushes a lot of bizarre propaganda and dissent is often met with bans. From my observations, criticism of Russia or China can get you banned, presumably because these countries have a history of communism. Also, they even defend Putin and justify the invasion of Ukraine.

In my view, it’s one thing to be communist. It’s another to align yourself with the worst examples of it. Many communists distance themselves from the CCP and USSR, arguing that these were not real examples of communism. But, these folks in .ml seem to be defenders of it.

Be trans, use arch, and also be a communist (not the naive, idealistic kind, but the kind that defends Putin and modern day Russia)

I don’t understand this attitude. I did a bunch of research, used Ventoy to try out five different distros and went with Zorin. I think Zorin is a very good intro to Linux for noobs. It’s a pretty polished experience and would say if Zorin doesn’t convince complete noobs to switch, then they likely wouldn’t have switched. What other distros might I ask, were you thinking they’d have chosen instead?

It’s a 3 year old article, but Zorin has been building its relationships with the media and putting some effort in to marketing. The journalist here explains why he features Zorin OS in his articles. Probably a lesson here for FOSS and Linux in general. If you want adoption, you need to tell people about it where they are and not hope they find you. It’s not, “if you build it they will come.” It’s “if you build it and tell them about it, they will come.” I think the average Linux user is probably not an expert on how to spread Linux because the average Linux user is into niches and doesn’t believe in marketing and probably even has an aversion to it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2022/01/17/what-linux-distros-and-foss-projects-can-learn-from-zorin-os/

I have used Zorin for the past year for gaming. It’s been mostly fine, but they are a bit slow to upgrade certain things in the interest of stability. Zorin is on a two year cycle for major releases, which can mean waiting awhile for certain package upgrades. This is probably for the best for non-gamers and regular users, but some games I wanted to play required the latest graphics driver, which in turn required some newer dependencies in the OS.

Lately, I’ve been kinda toying with the idea of switching to Bazzite because every time I tinker with the graphics driver in Zorin, I break it. Additionally, sometimes some random package upgrade breaks things. I eventually get it working, but it is never fun to login for the night planning to play with a friend and then need to instead fix an issue. I’m thinking Bazzite might be a bit more suited for my gaming use cases given that it’s their priority. I don’t know for sure though. I could really care less about the OS and have no ego about doing things myself. Fuck Windows, but beyond that, I just want a zero maintenance OS that lets me game.

Zorin OS has been around since 2009

Zorin has been featured in some major publications — like Forbes

I personally like Zorin better than Mint. Mint is very dated looking, while Zorin feels more in line with a modern OS. They also try to create an easy experience for non-techie people to use Linux. They need some model to keep themselves going though. The money for pro also unlocks some features they’ve added to the OS and the free software is still free, they just make it easy to acquire it for non-techie people who don’t want to spend time trying to do their own research, or don’t know how to.

The risk calculation makes no sense. For like ~$10 profit for an 8th you send some guy away who has plenty of incentive to rat you out when he gets caught with it. Maybe one guy has 0.1% chance of getting caught. Multiply that by the hundreds of people you sell to and you’re probably fucked eventually. Depending on the state you could see a few years in prison.

I judge my delivery drivers — especially the ones that deliver the wrong fucking order and then run away. True story.

Yeah we know.

Fox News and Trump make it so that if members of Congress oppose the president they get death threats and definitely won’t be re-elected. Republicans will let Trump do anything at this point.

They just want to cash in more. Let’s face it, the city likes tourist revenue and felt like they could get more.

1,000 people later fell out of windows to their deaths in a string of unfortunate accidents

He’s a French citizen and is perceived as supporting French interests in this former French colony whereas other presidents tried to move Madagascar in other directions.

Rajoelina took power after a military coup in 2009. He was a radio DJ and mayor of the capital city who encouraged the overthrow of the former president, so him getting overthrown himself is a pretty interesting turn of events.

Couper gets coup’d, sucks to suck. Eat shit Andry.

Ireland does love their corporations. Basically a tax haven.