• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, but don’t get in the way of the Windows evil, Linux savior movement here on lemmy or you’ll get downvoted to oblivion. Pointing out simple facts apparently means you’re a shill.

    At least that’s what I’ve seen in all the Windows posts over the last couple months. Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

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      2 months ago

      Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

      People got fed up with Microsoft putting undeletable 9-gigabyte cache files on their systems? And AI junk that screenshots everything you do? And surveillance? And making the OS more hostile and worse in general with every release?

      Lemmy exists because people got fed up with the corporate analogue. You’ll see a lot of the same sentiment in other matters too.

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        2 months ago

        I’m just pointing out that it’s a sudden and extreme change in commentary with no ramp up. The kind of thing that in other contexts, like politics, often comes from something like a coordinated attack or disinformation scheme.

        Real world testing of a new propaganda campaign system on a topic most users don’t give a shit about (Windows vs Linux), in a niche corner of the internet (Lemmy), isn’t exactly an unlikely scenario.

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          2 months ago

          I remember the browser wars, that’s when microsoft exposed themselves how shitty they were to the world IMO.

          That’s a long time ago. Years and years.

          The ramp up started then, IMO.