Cosmic Cleric

Use a thicker pin? Replace the hinges?

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Thanks for reading my wall of text.

Moar paragraphs are your friends.

Sure, because Linux is such a threat to Microsoft

A smart CEO doesn’t look at just today, but looks at tomorrow as well.

‘Kill the baby in the crib’ is a valid option to a CEO.

I won’t even try to convince you of the opposite or that i’m human. I even occasionally fail capcha tests so who knows!?

So you ‘say’.

Honestly, I don’t care either way if the sources are biological or electrical.

My concern is the message itself and the redirecting the narrative negatively away from good products/services, and not if it’s a human or bot that’s doing it.

My only point in mentioning bots is that they’re very inexpensive to be used constantly (versus human beings), and are widely being used today.

I really doubt they’re wasting time astroturfing a Linux community on Lemmy.

A bots (not human) time is very easy to waste, and if your product is having problems right now, one of the first things corporations would do to protect their profits is to try to reshape the narrative away from the problems, from the negative final spotlight on your product.

And finally, as I’ve linked before in this conversation, Microsoft has a long history of using FUD.

You’re not going to convince hardcore devotees with a meme.

They’re not directed just towards the ‘hardcore the devotees’, they’re also directed at the person who’s considering moving, who’s trying to do some research about it, and does searching about it, and then finds the memes/communities.

Stopping potential switchers before they switch is a powerful thing to do to preserve your products/profits.

And if you do these memes/messages often, and if they send a certain message/narrative, you would definitely introduce FUD into the people who would consider moving to Linux.

Pay attention to the meta.

But the likelihood of them coordinating a meme based offensive against the, is it 4% now?

But we’re seeing an uptick recently like we haven’t seen before, as it seems like the momentum is on the Linux side right now.

Also a standard good policy is to ‘kill the baby in the crib’, especially so when there seems to be more dissatisfaction with Windows 11 these recent days.

A potent combination of situations.

And finally, there’s nothing wrong (from a CEOs point of view) with just ‘beating down’ your competition every day of the week, regardless of their current market share, especially when it’s easy to do so.

I am sure that you could turn this into me being hired by Microsoft to defend their agenda

Honestly? The thought has come to my mind, that you’re actually an AI bot, part of the process to protect the current redirection of the narrative. Not hired by Microsoft per se, but a bot used by the company that any OS company would hire to shape the narrative.

And the fact that you brought it up first preemptively, and the way you use your verbiage, adds to the suspicion.

but in the end, the most plaussible explanation is usually the true one

You’re assuming yours is the most plausible explanation.

You keep dismissing the ease of use of using AI bots in today’s environment to redirect the narrative, and how often we’re seeing it done across all Internet-based media today.

There’s companies out there that actually sell these services to corporations, and profit from doing so. Profit is always a strong motive generator.

I don’t feel very supported by their killing off CentOS and cutting promised support down from many years to the end of the year rather suddenly… Forgive me if I don’t trust them with much of anything after that

Fair enough. But you’re speaking about policy and politics, I’m speaking about day-to-day hardware and software support/compatibility and how well it works with a wide range of hardware. I’m speaking about the OS itself; it just works with for me, without any hassles.

That’s what we call a conspiracy theory

Why? You honestly don’t believe that corporations never try to manipulate the narrative/message for their benefit/profit?

Early Microsoft was well known for wielding the FUD factor.

Ah, how could I have forgotten the legion of MSFT contract employees scouring… fucking… furaffinity for that sweet, delectable anti-Linux propaganda lmao

Because having bots backed by AI and a preset list of sites/forums to post to would be way too much of an effort and impossible to automate/do, right? /s

(And for the record, mentioning ‘bots’ for the second time now.)

For me, being backed by IBM isn’t exactly a selling point… Not as bad as backed by Oracle, mind you

Granted, corporate shenanigans are never fun to deal with. But say what you may, they know how to support what they sell, hardware and software.

This is the issue with Linux. It needs better support and adaptation.

I point you towards Fedora. Its indirectly backed by IBM.

From the article…

Although Fedora isn’t the most popular Linux OS, it’s certainly one of the most well supported

Because Microsoft cares so much about an 18.6K-member community called “linuxmemes” on a small federated Reddit alternative known for being filled with die-hard Linux fans and furries?

The company a corporation would hire to do that sort of thing would use a shotgun approach to the redirection postings. With bots it would be easy for them to do.

i think it’s a sort of meta ironic joke. The joke here is that it’s not working, and they’re trying to figure out why it’s not working, because linux actually lets you do this to some significant capacity.

Yeah, no, not sure if I can agree with that interpretation. To me it seemed more like it was showing the frustration of the user trying to use Linux that doesn’t work, and having to debug the problem, adding to the frustration.

If it was expressing what you’re saying it was, then there would be one more final frame to the comic showing some kind of Linux ‘hero’ plot device solving the problem, or pointing out there really isn’t a problem.

“unbutt” and something below it, with the circle logo, it’s unbuntu.

Fair enough, but I was speaking more to the meta of the subject (not all distros are created equally), but still, you’re right.

When I see these kind of posts I can’t help but think that maybe they’re being made by people who could be astroturfing for another company and it’s OS, in a negative way, to redirect the narrative.

But to say that nothing should ever break and having one frustration and saying that linux isn’t ready is simply unrealistic and lazy as hell.

It should also be considered if those who are saying that could possibly be astroturfing for another company and it’s OS, in a negative way, to redirect the narrative.

some distros are plug and play though.

This. I’m using Fedora/KDE, and it works fine.

The problem with that meme comic is that it doesn’t state which distro the fox was using, as far as the level of supported it requires.

Everyone who uses Linux knows that there are some distros that require more ‘tender loving care’ by their users than others.

Forgot to ask, but I would love to hear your thoughts on what @5C5C5C@programming.dev has commented about this subject: https://lemmy.world/comment/9003210