So yes if it weren’t for people wanting convenience the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” would have happened 25 years ago.

What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends?

GaryBluto an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends?

The exercise would do people good. Jokes aside though, there is a nuance between completely inconvenient and designed for the marching morons.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You mean 80% of adults worldwide are “morons”? Have you ever thought that they may know something you don’t know?

yes, getting emails or text messages instead of having app alerts is luddism.

Get real, dawg

	▲	raw_anon_1111 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Uhh yes - when 90% of adults worldwide have moved to smart phones - yes you are the Luddite. Email is for old people has been a meme for two decades https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/