We now live in a world controlled by Sociopathic Oligarchs who can afford to create government level technology.

People have lived in that world for most/all of human history. Assuming you come from the west, you’re coming from a place where for the last couple of hundred years it’s been more cost effective to just buy the government instead. Is that better? Maybe, it’s a little more stable. I dunno if it’s good though.

Yeah, let’s give the trump administration the power to seize companies it doesn’t like, that is a great idea that def won’t be abused all the time

I agree. My point stands, though. You, a Linux user, believes it is bad that windows plans to handle updates the same way Linux does. That is very weird to me.

So you left windows for an OS that already handles updates this way, and now you’re mad that windows is doing it?

Leaving it for what exactly? Linux? If so, I have some bad news about linux package managers.

Some people aren’t going to like anything Microsoft does, even if it mimicks one of the biggest selling points of the systems they left windows for.

That’s true but we’re far from critical mass. I will say the steam deck has done more than any other single innovation in the 25 someodd years I’ve been paying attention to this stuff.

I saw a lot more “I’m converting immediately” posts after win 8 tbh, and I wasn’t even on Lemmy surrounded by the most hardcore Linux devotees this side of slashdot. 2012 wasn’t the year of the Linux desktop and 2025 won’t be either. There won’t be a year of the Linux desktop until OEMs start shipping it by default on new hardware.

thought to be valuable by some.

That is every currency