Ok, thank you!

There will still be just as many free as in beer linux apps and they will be just as easy to find since you can just turn on the filter for “free and open source” when your searching for an app in flathub or whatever repo and package manager you use, sure more proprietary apps may be developed but the open source ones will be here to stay and could get much more funding from donations if more people joined.

And I don’t think it’s about hardware development as that is already here, there are plenty options for hardware on linux and that is not a limiting factor.

What is a limiting factor (at least for me) is software support and it is the reason I still dual boot windows and linux. I need adobe for my work I know, I hate it too I wish I could use davinci resolve and other alternatives instead but I can’t. I am also a gamer and I play with my friends who run windows, I want to have fun with my friends and if a game doesn’t run on linux I still want to play the game even if it means using windows.

If the market share of linux increases then for profit developers will start optimizing applications for it since it will become a major target demographic.

In terms of viruses and regulation they are both fare points which I agree with you on, but I don’t think they outweigh the benifets of having higher user adoption (for me at least)

I would be interested to know, is software support is ever a boundary to you?

Wait what? I thought the EU could be my future salvation! If the EU regulations are too harsh, and the US regulations are so slack that billion dollar monopolistic tech companies can thrive, Australia is just America lite but with mining instead of big tech, and developing nations are still developing and don’t have good amenities and the communist nations are largely dictators where do I go?

I first started Ubuntu as a minecraft server, then last year I actually started using it as a desktop.

The year of the Linux desktop: any year now for the past 10 years.

I’m waiting for the day someone who isn’t a nerd and regularly uses Linux.

That’s a real showcase of how linux actually cares about its users over other companies. It’s great to see that hardware I buy now will be supported on linux for a long long time into the future.

I 100% agree. I’m still relatively new but this helped me become much more confident.

You might be right I searched it up and found that protonmail doesn’t encrypt header lines which isn’t great. The f-droid point is also valid. But unfortunately there is no decentralised email providers, even tuta is still centralised. I would be interested if there are any options for decentralised mail.

On another note regardless of whether I’m using proton or tuta it’s hardly ever end to end encrypted since everyone I’m sending the mail to uses Gmail.

Yeah I’ve also heard malware bytes is good. I heard if from thenewoil.org.

I guess I’m in the privacy enthusiast section. Although I do use searxng. And I will admit I do use some things from the top layer, like YouTube and steam. Also i don’t like how proton is a section above tuta aside from quantum safe encryption which is meaningless at the current state of technology (I agree that could change soon) aside from that proton mail is just as good as tuta.

I use everything from the privacy enthusiast section on a daily basis except for addy.io and tuta since i use proton for email and email aliasing.

But now windows takes longer to boot and is too slow because ms office is always running in the background. +1 for reasons to use linux.

That’s the problem I don’t log off. It would be good if lemmy could limit the amount of new posts you see each day to only include say the top 10 posts from your subscriptions because yeah… I spend more time here than I really should be.

And here i am on lemmy when I should be in bed. I don’t even need algorithms to keep me on my phone.

That’s an awesome story. And it really goes against what a lot of people talk about online who often say linux is harder than windows but it’s not unless you need windows or macos specific programs.

That’s such a cool story. I would love to be able to say something like that too at some point in the future.

Yeah I need read and write, I will look at posix for Ocis though.

I’ve heard of seafile but i remember something about it turned me off, ocis on the other hand sounds awesome, owncloud but written in go? I will definitely look into that and thanks for the recommendation.

That’s right I need native drive mounting into dolphin and Macos finder. Seafile doesn’t have it for any linux file Explorer which means it won’t work for me.

I think Ocis does have it though.

Oh sorry for assuming you didn’t already know that. That’s awesome you have graphene os, my phone doesn’t support any custom rom’s really.

I totally agree there should be a list, it would be very nice to know.

It’s the same situation with Linux just a simple login only has very basic protection you need to encrypt your disk if you want to make sure no one can read it.