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instead of usb booting a custom Tails instance every time to defend their glorious revolution
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Liked MacOS UX but despised the West so they created their own (though I think it was deprecated considering how many North Korean publications have Microsoft product metadata 
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Yes, but nobody makes end user business software for linux machines, only Windows. Linux only gets stuff for servers and sometimes developing but even people who work on Linux systems all code on a Macbook. Linux Torvald himself uses a Macbook to develop linux ironically enough
Possibly, I could be wrong but also note I'm not using "nobody" and "all" like literally literally
I mean the "software" in the image is running in edge. So, short of compatibility, I can't imagine it couldn't run on something like Fire Fox. Which begs the question: Why are we using windows 11 at all?
because no one in the factory has ever used a linux machine and the none of the engineers want to be the go to hand holding guy when your prototype inevitably shits itself so they just use windows and hope that its one less thing to have to worry about.
its about convenience, perceived or otherwise. nobody gets paid enough to care about the politics or the tech
Linux Torvald himself uses a Macbook to develop linux ironically enough
He uses Asahi Linux, a project designed to painstakingly reverse engineer Apple ARM-based Silicon to run a free operating system (whose labor is virtually all volunteer work). It is a GNU/Linux operating system that has both a Arch and Fedora distribution and the goal is to upstream everything to the Linux kernel so everyone can use Linux on Apple ARM.
Not going to disagree with your sentiment. Mainstream consumer desktops is a dominated market by the USA because it's easier to extract profit from individuals with little to no power by themselves than it is with large enterprises who can actually negotiate using free operating systems or a stripped down version of Windows exactly to their liking. Freedom and human rights is taboo in Western societies so obviously you're not going to get mainstream conversation around FOSS and instead petty bourgeois complaining about "enshittification."
He uses Asahi Linux
And even then, in his 2022 email where he unveiled his usage of it, he wrote:
Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only been doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging
clearly meaning he still uses (I assume) his 2020 AMD build, unless it has changed in the last 2 years.
Edit: It has changed in the last 2 years!
And I now have a more powerful arm64 machine (thanks to Ampere), so the last week I've been doing almost as many arm64 builds as I have x86-64, and that should obviously continue during the upcoming merge window too. The M2 laptop I have has been more of a "test builds weekly" rather than "continuously".
I use KDE desktop applications to code but I'm obstinate and not that gud.
Actually the armchair western tech nerds on an insular leftist forum know the needs of experienced engineers better than the engineers themselves
I mean China has their own share of techbros that deserve to be bullied considering China is jumping on AI and hasn't sent their gacha games to
(at least domestically, critical support to robbing western libs). Sometimes it's just a lack of urgency.
using windows is an evil that has been forced on 99% of the world and blaming anyone for using it is victim blaming
But also not working towards liberating yourself from nonfree software is also counterproductive. China has the best opportunity to obtain digital sovereignty and it does have a responsibility as a socialist state to do so and not squander it for western silicon valley cash.
that requires the construction of what amounts to an entirely new supply chain though
China has been doing that before and since they started banning Western tech companies from operating in China who don't comply with their laws. Domestic tech industries were able to grow and develop, growing the tech and IT sector in China organically. Sure Chinese companies still participate in the same unequal exchange supply chains that stem from illegal mining in Africa to factory workers in Chinese Taipei, but that's just today. Things like belt and road have shown that new supply chains not based on uni-polar control are possible and should be worked towards.
Apple is popular in China now, but the US capitalist-imperialist class will inevitably fumble their own bag and manage to get their leverage banned in China and that hole won't be left as a wound for China but as an opportunity (just how they are fumbling with Chinese EVs, paper-thin sanctions on Nvidia GPUs, and managing to get all their programs banned or neutered in China).
Most Global South nations are nowhere close to this level of sovereignty. If Whatsapp stopped business in South America or Europe, entire industries would halt, China would feel it and then hit back with WeChat or whatever technology their now highly trained and independent engineers can create. Of course, that's just a hypothetical to show that large parts of the world technological infrastructure depends on nonfree software maintained in the US.
Obviously the USA wouldn't promote free software and all the GNU good stuff because nonfree software is one of the ways they make the rest of the world bend the knee to them.
No China don't do it, you're one update away from the entire thing screeching to a halt. First the pc slows down loading a youtube video, then the fan spins up, then before you know it your nuclear submarine is bricked and you need to do a restart that stops on "cleaning up 100%" for 2 months
Windows BSOD and instead of nuking occupied Korea they nuke best Korea
world's most accessible and compatible operating system
you mean US tech imperialism and hegemonic status that dominates and crushes any of its competitors via monopolistic practices that was never challenged in the US and was exported to the rest of the world? Microsoft rules based order vibes.
Just wait for the second Chinese Civil War to erupt within the next decade and TSMC to get the nordstream treatment. No point in making a transition to complete digital sovereignty until that happens. China has been developing RISC-V and their own domestic operating systems for a while now. Besides that, China has their own substitutes for Western
spyingtech infrastructure that they could easily port to RISC-V and other operating systems (something that is completely unprecedented in other countries on the planet). They are so ready to roll this out when x86_64 (Western imperialism) gets blacklisted from China.It is a bit sad to see AES states not have their digital sovereignty down immediately (DPRK experimented with Red Star but they now reportedly use Windows 7 and 10), but that's literally the whole reason I scream about the importance of free software. The United States' tech hegemony is a direct assault on the sovereignty of other nations and using free software that guarantees people's freedoms is the only way to fight back. We improve and campaign for GNU/Linux so that the entire world can benefit from de-americanizing their computing (which also includes American citizens).
I mean if you really want to become doomer, life-saving medical equipment literally depends on old deprecated versions of Windows that if gone would literally make these machines e-waste and people would die. It's not just that Windows is "so convenient", you literally are not allowed to use or participate in technology if you don't have it.
But yeah, they could easily slap Debian and Firefox onto their machines and it would work the same if this is just purely a web-based interface with no extenuating circumstances. L Chinese industrialists.
I hope they don't steal more of our technology by building it and remembering how to do it again, that's fucked up
I can feel a shit storm brewing Randy! This is going to start the Linux struggle session isn't it?
