Clearly people don’t find it that bad

Most people don’t care about the same things you care about. I do, and still find managing windows easier but I agree not everyone will because I also care about things like tpm support and kernel signing. Windows does all these things with no hoops, making it simpler for my use case. I’ve never had a registry entry brick anything.

I’m not super controlling, so I don’t feel an overriding need to remove edge just because it’s there. I used Rufus to bypass tpm and web login support with 2 checkboxes. Life just isn’t that hard.

For someone who doesn’t care at all, windows is significantly easier.

My general experience has been: “Come to Linux”

“But not ubuntu that’s trash”

<Tries arch, run into problem>

“Why the fuck would you use arch, dummy?”

<Switch to fedora, immediately brick computer, eventually fix it but switch to suse>

<Wonder where certain software is>

“If you wanted wide software support why wouldn’t you use arch”

“You can just learn the build tool chain for that software and do it yourself”

Etc Etc

The Linux community is very welcoming until you expect things to work.

Special hardware meaning a TPM chip to encrypt your data? Why would they force you to use 10 year old tech, way too new!

Remember they aren’t forcing you to update, they just are telling you they won’t support your old-ass shit :)

To, with, or in?

Stop both sides bs, this is a guy pardoning his son’s addiction, not committing treason, attacking the capital, or selecting a cabinet of pedophiles. Have some fucking humanity, putibot.

Correct

People don’t read

I mean, I would also prefer it…I don’t want a 10 minute 1 second video driven by a 14 year old YouTube algorithm change explaining which bolt to loosen, but here we are. People don’t read.

No, it didnt

That’s how it’s sold (well thankfully several states have banned them so it’s often paper)

Also you’re euro right? Europeans jump through so many hoops to justify not having public toilets/trash, it’s like that continents version of American health care.

You can get now that’s what I call music for 5 easy payments of 19.99!!

But I’ve not heard it called that until recently.

I remember payday lending being a thing, rent to own on furniture rings a bell too, but I remember most of the focus being on credit cards and bank fees

I was more thinking of the uncaring universe than blaming our species.

People do tend to learn defenses against the environment in, so Im surprised.

You’ve described all of human history

We didn’t have this new term buy now pay later to the same extent, the millenials version just called credit cards credit cards.

Nah more credit check hits

Partially agree, people are weirdly reluctant to ask for things to be fixed. I mean who among us has not just decided to skip out on telling the random employee that the bathroom is about out of soap? But how would they know?

The answer of course is that businesses which generate tons of onsite waste and provide trash bins have people whose job it is to keep an eye on cleanliness which includes soap, trash, etc. on a regular basis. Much the same way when you go to a grocery store you’re never out of carts. The difference is people use carts to buy, while garbage is different, so companies optimize for what makes them money at the cost of public good.

You keep your not quite empty styrofoam coffee cup in you pocket? Don’t you get sticky and start to smell like overripe coffee beans?

Just ask for that, they will oblige. Source: plenty of places I do this. While normally I find this bullshit cloying, in this case you have the power to be the change you want to see.