@anubiarts@oomfie.city on Mastodon: 'how to convince people to move over to linux "you have the freedom of doing what you want with your pc and with open source alternatives" ❌' Bullet point list: too wordy, most people have no idea what that means, "what is linux". Second point: '"you can't run league of legends on it" ✅' Bullet points: straight to the point, very easy to understand, over half of the earth's population now use linux.
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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

"Son, I FORBID you to use Linux!"

"YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"

Bam, big uptick in Linux adoption, easy.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    "Libs hate Linux Mint"

    "Nazis hate Fedora"

    Now all your bases are covered. Now we can put aside political ideology and fight about the real issues...... the distro wars.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Really, though - it would be amazing if someone made a MAGA-themed distro just to tell people it's the "Trump47Freedom Linux, free from liberal wokeness!" and then just collected massive telemetry and had a bunch of backdoors so you can just scam them all for...

    Uh.....quick, tell me how does one make a Linux distro?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A Linux distro is essentially 2 things. A installer that sets everything up and a package repository to install software and updates from. The work is in selecting the software in the repository and making sure they all work with each other. But you can just take an existing distro (like debian) and make minor changes, like setting a Trump wallpaper, setting a secret backdoor password for ssh and adding the telemetry to the programs installed by default. For everything else refere back to the parent distro. Every time they make an update, just apply your changes on top of it and ship it as your own distro.

    Should leave you with enough time to market to MAGAs and sell access to the backdoors and the telemetry data.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've read this comment about 30 times, trying to talk myself out of paying some kids to re-package Mint for me. But with all the grifting, I could do this and charge $47 a pop and raaaake it in. And it's not a REAL scam, right?

    No, I need bitcoin scammer money up front to bother with this. And I don't have that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I feel like it depends on who you are and who you are selling to. Microsoft and Intel have no trouble selling backdoors to the NSA.

    But in general selling access to somebody else's computer without their knowledge is considered illegal.

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