Guys, while a lot of this might be complete autism, I personally think that in this day and age, calling it GNU/Linux actually has some real meaning. There is this little thing called Android, and it uses the Linux kernel, but the rest of the components are non-GNU. Some are even proprietary! However, I have seen normies make the dangerously misleading claim that "Android is Linux!" It technically is, as it uses the Linux Kernel, but it shares nothing else with GNU/Linux distros, particularly their respect for your freedoms.
Because of this, we should say GNU/Linux, so as not to confuse it with the botnet that is Android, or other such projects. By saying GNU/Linux, we make it clear that yes, we are using Linux, but we are also using Free Software.
Propaganda for Normies
Oh and not even your maintainers give a shit. Go home. I didn't invite you to this talk, why are you even here? Go tell highschool students to peel stickers off their laptops.
You sure do seem mad, Linus.
Im a normie, convince me to use free software.
Just to clarify, most of the software I use is free. Now that I think about this whole issue more, I think the best way to convince people of using free alternatoves is making them better than their propietary counterpart. I just use the software that better fills my needs; it being free is nice, but it isbt important for me at all.
Don't! They will shit up Zig Forums.
This unironically, memes are very powerful in this generation.
Oh thank you. We hadn't thought of that.
You are probably depressingly right. The entire human race is retarded. I can no longer blame the politicians and the coorporations for exploiting the sheep. Now me and the suits give each other a nod of recognition when we meet. Once in a while I feel the urge to sneak into a normie house, dip their toothbrush in the toilet, take a piss in the waterheater and stick their smartphone between my buttocks and just observe as the time approaches the setting on their alarmclock.. how else could one possible bare having to live on the same planet as these un-free imbeciles?
I have given up! Fuck 'em all. As another thread suggested maybe we should move under sea. At least there you die if you are stupid enough to open Windows™.
Okay, the one with the smartphone sounded a little gay.. I ment it so that I put it back at their nightstand after. Though a little tingle in the arse first are not to be dismissed.
Now this is fine for as long as the free software community is actively and expediently working for the purpose of attracting the adoption from users. The problem with the idea that attracting users by developing free software to be "better" than proprietary software is that users will easily go the other way because freedom is not an ideal that is important to most users. This means when the free software community is not interested in playing mirror with proprietary software, then the users will simply use proprietary software.
The key is to encourage people that inconvenient freedom is more important than convenience that infringes on freedom. This is not an easy thing to do because the vast majority of society is only taught to judge software in one way: does the software do the job as conveniently as I'd like it? The thing about freedom is that freedom is always correlated with personal responsibility. The problem is that most people value the convenience that other people control more than freedom in which they are personally required to do more work.