Did they demand change or did they belittle their peers?

Yes smartphones and tablets have replaced desktops for most general users.

This is something people fail to realize, and I think part of it is because Linux people tend to surround themselves with other Linux people.

I have been helping my friend get into Linux, we picked a sensible distro, fedora, with the default gnome spin. He loves the UI, great.

But there is a random problem with his microphone, everything is garbled, I can't recreate it on my hardware and it's unclear.

He reads guides and randomly inputs terminal commands, things get borked, he re installs, cycle continues.

He tries a different distro, microphone works, but world of Warcraft is funky with lutris, so no go.

The result is, all of this shit just works on windows, and it just doesn't on Linux. Progress has been made in compatibility, but, for example, there was a whole day of learning just about x vs Wayland and not actually getting to use the computer. For someone who has never opened a terminal before, something as simple to you and I as adding a package repo is completely gibberish

Yes you can learn all of this, but to quote this friend who has been trying Linux for the past two weeks "I'm just gonna re install windows and go back to living my life after work"

When you have 20 years of understanding windows, you need to be nearly 1 to 1 with that platform to get people to switch.

I didn't know about alien, that is pretty cool.

However this bit from the readme is hilariously on brand for Linux:

"To use alien, you will need several other programs. Alien is a perl program, and requires perl version 5.004 or greater. If you use slackware, make sure you get perl 5.004, the perl 5.003 in slackware does not work with alien!

To convert packages to or from rpms, you need the Red Hat Package Manager; get it from Red Hat's ftp site. If your distribution (eg, Red Hat) provides a rpm-build package, you will need it as well to generate rpms.

If you want to convert packages into debian packages, you will need the dpkg, dpkg-dev, and debhelper (version 3 or above) packages, which are available on http://packages.debian.org"

Also Linux's package ecosystem are not cross compatible.

You go to new York and just immediately get bombarded with pizza, when you get off the plane they put a pizza around your neck.

Well, it would be faster if I didn't need to drive 4 hours for a 7/11, but I get ya.

I think mostly people are defending themselves, when Linux people jump on the harassment train, it's just that, harassment.

The game explores the idea of choice and structure in modern video game narratives.

It's presented to you in such a way that you feel like you can't break away from the established narrative, everything you do has actually been planned and accounted for, and even intended by the developer.

Directories are nice because they easily and clearly filter information in a human way and they naturally build a tree that can be parsed quickly by a person.

I like the desktop metaphor, because it's how I think.

When I went through the immigration process with my spouse we were asked to provide Bank statements, Affidavits from friends, coworkers, peers, and family, Photographs (including being interrogated about who was in the photos), Perform separated interviews where personal questions were asked and then cross verified (what side of the bed do you sleep on, what color is her toothbrush, what are some shows or movies you watch together, etc), We were notified that we may be surveilled, to verify that we spend time together (don't know if it actually happened or not) My spouse had to have a full biometric physical performed and the result given to USCIS, Medical history, And about 100 pages of forms where you are required to disclose all affiliations with any groups you may have, political affiliations, etc.

Granted this is for permanent residency, not a visa, but the level of information you are required to divulge to USCIS is astronomical.

It's been many years thankfully since I have had to do anything for USCIS, but it would not surprise me if they already ask you for social media information, and regardless of if they ask you, they are definitely finding everything they can about you.

The kicker is that everything is discretionary, so it doesn't matter what they ask, since they can just say no if they feel like it anyway.