If you know, you know.
Wtf $150k a year for a developer is huge. Only in the US, maybe Switzerland, are those wages practiced.
In Europe you’ll get about half of that and that’s still a good wage. I hate the amount of out of touch devs who think getting paid 6-figures is normal.
Well, you see how well that works out, when the session system can’t even sustain itself due to the cost of labour lol.
I might be confusing them with some other distro but I think they outright said they will not comply with any requests for dob verification.
Right.
Not taking a stance is actually taking a stance, as in saying “we will comply as soon as we’re asked to.”
Which is fine to do, I just wish people stopped pretending the mainstream distros are resisting doing something that is clearly unpopular, when in reality they already sided with the law. It’s very different from what AntiX did.
Not gonna lie I’m really struggling to sympathize with OP right now. People are trying to drag him out of the doom and gloom and OP just keeps moving the goal posts into a position that nobody can defend.
Frankly, this could be a post complaining about how Macbooks don’t support Windows. Yeah, they don’t, there are multiple options out there though that do, but OP is not interested in them. They want to go back to a time when stores sold hardware that they can no longer sell, and think this post can do it vengeance. Seriously it sounds like a Reddit post. I thought I ran away from there to avoid these types of posts but alas.
The average person. I’m going to repeat that because apparently you missed it. The average person isn’t buying used computers from enterprise resellers.
The average person is most definitely buying second-hand laptops they can afford from Facebook Marketplace or similar, enterprise-grade or not.
It’s not about Linux not being supported. It’s about barrier to entry.
Linux inherently has a barrier of entry by virtue of having essentially zero manufacturers selling hardware that ships with Linux installed. However I don’t understand why you think price is a barrier of entry. If the majority of laptops are priced from 300 euros up to 4000 in some shops, then that’s what customers are willing to pay. I don’t mean now with the AI boom making everything more expensive either, I mean for the past few years this has been the market. Common people buy new from stores, or buy second-hand.
My mother is not buying and installing RAM. My mother would not know what to do if she had driver issues on Linux.
This issue is not specific to Linux. The used market is flooded with Windows laptops that no longer support windows 11 well due to only having 4-8 GB ram. Same with 8GB Macbooks.
I don’t know why you’re pretending that shopping for an older laptop model is only a problem for the average person if you want it to be Linux compatible. Also your grandmother doesn’t have to do anything. She, like the average person, can take her laptop to a repair shop for servicing and upgrading.
This said, you’re not the average person. You already went the extra mile by installing Linux on devices that don’t ship with from factory. Further, you’re specifically interested in small devices when the average person wants bigger screens, you want your device to be underpowered when the average person wants them as powerful as possible in a slim form factor without compromising on battery. Your rant has nothing to do with what the average person wants, your rant is, sorry to say, a completely self-absorved rant that just shows you’re mad your niche preferences aren’t supported by the Linux community, or the world consumer preferences as a whole.
“The sacrifice of staying on Linux after 20 years”
I mean honestly could this title be any more self-absorbed?
I would ask if you’re a Debian user (or use a Debian-derivative), but what even is the point when I already know the answer.
Everything you just said can be fixed by buying Thinkpads. All of them are supported because some companies use Linux at an enterprise level. Until those corporations disappear, Linux will never stop being supported on them. I see a lot of doom and gooom that is frankly unhelpful especially now that the Microslop monopoly is clearly breaking down and there is more potential for Linux than ever before.
Meanwhile the US just bullied our governments into handing out all of our medical data and were obliged. Different approaches.
It’s not per year, it’s per month.