> It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.

There is a couple more wild things here:

1) That there is an agenda, demand and total legal abetment from the top of the power/monetary hierarchy for such corporate policies

2) That there is a horde of individual employees working to those ends without any shadow of doubt, often even vice signaling their intent to be the first to attain the figurative A-bomb or full-blown BB telescreen.

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atoav 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of that has to do with the fact that the people who decide to use it fall into two camps:

1. People who do not have to use it themselves (political decides, bosses, ..), but get lobbied to the max

2. People who have to administer it and know nothing else and endure the lasting pain over the perceived infinite hurdle of changing the system

I gladly can use Linux at work, so I have had a stable, reliable and unchanging system since the past 6 years, but others have to go through major pains for each version of enshittification of their OS update. In my case the OS just got better slowly and incrementally.

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joking 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know if lobbied is the correct word, or they are directly bought.

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flaunf221 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

3. People who play games.

Because alternatives are bad. After decades of being great, Linux gaming community finally gave up on it working and accepted emulation of Windows as the way to go. (No need to nitpick on tech specifics of how Wine works)

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mcv 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Gave up? There are more Linux games than ever. Most commercial games work fine on Linux now. Some through emulation of some sort, others completely natively, because most gamer engines support Linux natively, making it trivial to do so. And as a gamer, I can't really tell the difference between the two.

If you mean Linux-only classic open source games, like Angband or Battle for Wesnoth or something, they still exist, but the demand has clearly gone down because now almost all games work on Linux. Except the ones with anti-cheat systems that rootkit-style access to your system.

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OrangeRange 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Bad take, what actually happened was the realization that games wouldn't be released on Linux unless there were enough users there to warant it. Just as with ARM Windows not getting a single usable software when first released. What happened was Wine/Proton and FEX, with a lot of monetary input from Valve.

By allowing a lot of people who are willing to take a performance-hit to transition to Linux, they sow the grass-roots necessary for the game studios to release native games on Linux.

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c7b 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're saying this as if emulation (which Wine isn't really, more of a Win32 API compatibility layer; WINE literally stands for 'WINE Is Not an Emulator') was a bad thing. In reality, a lot of games benchmark better on Linux than on Windows today.

	▲	flaunf221 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Emulation is not a bad thing - it gives users options. My point is that Microsoft were the only ones who managed to make a stable gaming platform. Also "a lot of games benchmark better" - some games. And then some games don't work at all. And some games work with minor or significant issues. Which is not a slight against Wine and Proton as it's not an easy task.

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testerius 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

What are you talking about? Lol, Linux gaming is fine and still growing.

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shevy-java 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is true. We see that with Trump, where he tries to force the EU to open markets to the US corporations who will just steal data from EU citizens.

Why can't the EU learn more from Canada? Canada realised that with Trump there is no way to make a deal. So cut things down where possible, diversify - the EU still has to learn this lesson. In particular Germany is totally US-addicted - no idea why, other than, of course, the obvious answer ("we need to export into the USA", aka selfish greed from Germany here).

	▲	herbst 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Can you name examples how the EU or Germany is US addicted? From my POV in central Europe this has changed long long long ago. Doing some trading with a shitty country doesn't imply any dependency