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Only way to fix this is for people and corps to stop giving them money for anything.
But it's E C O S Y S T E M!
The entire French government is abandoning Windows for Linux. It is absolutely possible to change the entire ecosystem; just hard to hit that catalytic point, but more and more people are going that way, thankfully. Maybe they'll even eventually find Lemmy!
I think the Dutch are doing it as well. I'm all for it, when I switched my laptop over from Windows 11 to NixOS, it stopped running at like a 100 degrees while doing nothing more than streaming video and light compiling.
Sweet, go Netherlands! And I also wanna move my desktop to NixOS! Got any tips or warnings for a first-timer who's mostly used just Mint?
I would recommend being familiar with config files and comfortable with the command line and bash. It's a very powerful being able to rebuild your OS at will. I would also look into Bazzite if you are interested in immutable distros.
I recommend firing up a virtual pc first with the distro first to get a feel for it.
I'm still grieving over XMPP. We could have an amazingly decentralized messaging platform. Google even based their own GoogleTalk over XMPP for a while, but a cluster of walled proprietary bullshit services won in the end, and Google layer switched to their own proprietary bullshit.
My good sir, the modern equivalent already exists and is called: https://www.matrix.org/
That's causing a lot of chaos in the online world isn't it?
France switched to OnlyOffice and Nextcloud, and now there's a feud between the two. I can't imagine using an office suite that's possibly a dead-end fork of a company that's fighting with the cloud drive I use to upload my documents.
They saw that only office had sketchy ownership and couldn't work with them, so a group of EU companies including nextcloud have forked it and are working on Euro-office. The license violation argument is just a tantrum from onlyoffice