How do we promote free and open source software/hardware?

make a monolith kernel that's GPL and POSIX compatible in Rust

Games games games games
It what brings the average person in. Its what platforms like the c64 and zx spectrum thrived on. Nobody were buying those things to type out their school report.
Users aint got time for that. If its possible, move WINE to the dev side of the equation. Make it their headache to figure out and then release their games on.

These are just petty bourg liberal phantasies. There is a reason every major software project, no matter its license, is developed by large, "authoritarian" organisations with paid developers. It is the most efficient way to go, the only problem is that they are owned/controlled by an unaccountable elite which leads to the software being designed and used as tools against the software users. Windows 7 is much nicer to use than any GNU/Linux distro

that's what Steam's Proton system does basically. it works very well.

lmao no it isn't.

I constantly have to type shit from the web into the command line for every little thing and the DEs are vey buggy and lacking in polish.

easier than dealing with layers upon layers of GUI

somewhat true, though KDE is very nice now. The thing is, if you've used Windows recently, its DE is also very buggy and lacking in polish, but there's not even a real excuse since they have so much money. I'd say KDE is actually more polished and stable in many areas. GNOME too, but it's too bloated.
lacking major features that you come to expect when using Linux (such as multiple desktops). deprecated.

t. Retard who at most tried Linux once.
I installed Linux on my tech illiterate moms pc, she can use it with ease.

Ok you start it and I’ll contribute

no. we'll do it after the revolution.

sure, not like a kernel takes 20-30 years to make or anything. I'm sure GNU HERD will be ready in 2029 just in time for real socialism