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I put that in quotes because geeksquad sometime gets called to literally just connect cables and show the client where the power button is.

And my point is not to blame the clients. My car mechanic may be laughing about me taking the car to do things I can do my self in 5 minutes.

The point is that windows isn't easier. It just has more readily available support and people who start using windows are OK calling someone.

People starting with Linux think that if they find an obstacle, "that's it, Linux bad", instead of paying someone to solve it.

On your last point about it being easier to do a side task while in a meeting. It is annoying that when someone is talking about something important and then they ask someone else in the meeting:"What is your team doing about it?", invariably the response is "doing about what? Can you repeat the question?" Delaying and extending meeting time.

Or later asking questions about what was said in the meeting. Really annoying.

And by the way, probably all of us have at some point been the distracted one.

No, I'm trying to understand why someone would store so many pictures. 20TB is enough for 330 4K movies or 10,000 1080P movies.

"Just in case I need it" is the principle of hoarding.

Music we listen to many times but it barely uses any space for today's standards.

Streaming TV is always something different, so, no point in storing it.

And movies? There may be a few favourites we watch again and even if they were 4K wouldn't use that much space. 20TB is space enough for 330 4K 2 hour movies! Or 10,000 1080P movies. Let's say that your job is to watch movies 8 hours a day. That's 4 movies per day, that's 500 weeks to watch 10,000 movies. Or 10 years (if you take a two week vacation every year). And that's without repeating.

Let's say you have 100 favourite movies that you like to watch on demand on 4 K (really an exaggeration) you only need 6 TB.

Si, my question stands.

The real question is:

How do people have so much media to fill up those drives?

Followed by: how do people have so much time to watch that media?

Followed by: human driven climate change is real. How can people waste energy just to hoard media that they rarely ever see again?

I understand somehow if you are torrenting and contributing to the sharing ecosystem, but just hoarding?

Again. Have you used Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu?

Regular people get help with basic stuff in windows All the time. That's why there is a Geek Squad in best buy. That's probably the only thing missing for the non technical Linux users.

If people are paying someone to "install" their printer, why would it be different with Linux.

In fact, in Linux they'd need less tech support as many windows users calls are for slowness, virus and obsolescence.

Let's not compare usability using different standards

Nothing can compare yet to YouTube.

The main reason is: YouTube is not only a distribution channel. It is also its own promotion channel tied to a search engine which magnifies that promotion.

You open YouTube and it offers similar videos tho what you've been watching. You search for something and there is probably a video (or many( matching what you are searching.

Other platforms are currently only distribution channels. You upload the video and promote it through other channels. Whether your own website or posts somewhere else.

Si, if you are a content producer and want to share, the current fediverse solutions are great, however it will need critical mass to attract content consumers.

And without content consumers, it will be hard to attract content providers who want a broad distribution and exposure.

So, let's start moving out own content to the fediverse and use other channels to promote them. Let's create a snowball effect. We could even post to several and see where the content consumers gravitate to.

Tell me you haven't used a Linux desktop recently without telling me.

"I remember". Using that phrase tells me it wasn't recently enough. And "using it inside windows" tells me you tried to fit a round peg into a square hole or that you don't know what you are talking about.

You may be a MAC fan and that's OK if that works for you, but I haven't needed to use anything else but Linux since 2004 (initially there were always pickups, though) and I've been runing it without issues since probably 2010.

"Microsoft testing new ways to lose customers".

It's well known that piracy was what made Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) the de facto standard.

If the kids at home can't use windows, they'll find something different. And when enough of them find if, when they become decision makers they'll stay away from Windows.

Imagine how different the landscape would be had MS cracked down on Piracy for their flagship programs.

I'm pretty sure even Communists. But your political system and the leaning of most of the US people means that they will never be able to have any impact.

People shouldn't wait to get to that point when all the historical signs point in that direction.

I think you are being victim of the boiling frog effect.

Do you want to be pedantic and wait until the mass graves are discovered years after thebfact? Or do you see the escalating signs that they are going exactly in that direction?

Right now they are already disappearing people. They are already following the totalitarian regime playbook and history has shown exactly where it leads to.

By the way, remove the wool over your eyes, it's not like the US doesn't know the totalitarian regime playbook. They've used it many times in other countries to install puppet governments. The only difference is that they are doing it now at home.