Do politicians still have your faith?

Let’s look at one study and ignore the consensus of studies, right?

Using an OS shouldn’t be a skill curve. Windows isn’t.

Smh.

It doesn’t hurt the sales of the games, that’s an unscientific assertion you are asserting that directly contradicts research.

If you want to play it for free, nobody’s stopping you from pirating it too. It seems like resentment here rather than logical rigour in your argument. It’s not a slap in the face for gamers who want to support the developers. If you don’t, there’s no reason why you should be obligated to purchase the game.

Games are made and developed for-profit, they only continue production if they are profitable. They’ve remained profitable despite piracy forever.

This has nothing to do with the argument that all games should be free or that developers don’t need paychecks. It’s an entirely different set of claims which nobody is making here.

Logic is objective, so saying it’s logical “to you” is illogical.

A sense of humour is irrelevant to a discussion from a logical standpoint. Furthermore, we literally have data and studies that show that piracy doesn’t hurt the sales of games— when provided with this evidence in the comments, you just “laughed” at it.

You ask for reasoning/evidence, and when provided, just laugh at it. Laughter doesn’t dismiss evidence.

The last few times I used Ubuntu I had to use the terminal or I couldn’t get apps I needed (the store didn’t have them).

Set-ups and installations were not as simple as you’ve described here.

and uh “scam sites” are a non-issue unless you’re a boomer

Sure, just don’t pretend you’re engaging in logical discussion.

Except when people provide you with evidence and reasoning you just go “lmao” and leave it at that too.

I have touched the registry like once, and that was just to disable windows updates. It’s not something I do.

The thing is that Linux is literally designed for coders in mind, it surely comes off that way. I’m not comfortable having to type these weird long-winded commands to do everything.

It was never the case with windows, it’s incredibly intuitive and linear. The amount of time taken to do anything on windows is practically always much lesser on windows compared to Linux necessarily.

Best example is setup installation files. One tap, everything is installed automatically. Not the case with Linux.

I don’t want to use the fucking terminal for every little damn thing.

Linux is not intuitive for people coming from other platforms at all. Using the computer for basic purposes such as downloading files, apps, and games should not feel like a skill curve.

Yes there’s stores in-built but that doesn’t have the majority of stuff I get, it’s often random websites online with .exe files and such.

Despite the BS microslop does, it’s just a lot easier and comfortable to use, more than Linux could ever be.

what if im gay?

The direct statements I’ve made are directly against that. You’re arguing in bad faith if you’re going to put words in my mouth for me and insist I said what I didn’t.

I can have a discussion about the present without focusing on the past or future. Saying that it is metaphysics is a non-sequitur. Not everything has to be viewed historically.

What you’re doing is you’re using dialectical materialism as a veneer to deflect criticism here.

You’re saying that, why should I believe that’s actually the case?

Censorship is always done with some sort of “positive” narrative tied to it.

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I never said history was metaphysical or wasn’t something that progresses. As long as you keep reading things into my statements you’re going to keep responding to arguments I never made.

That’s not what I said. Under the veneer of censoring capitalism, you allow broader censorship.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t support China, I’m saying we should call it out for the BS that it does actually do, and not treat it like divinity beyond criticism. Every time I make any criticism of China, the responses are apologetic at best.

Those issues aren’t “invented”, but I won’t go over those points again.

I didn’t say it’s permanent. It’s common sense that everything is temporary. If you’re reading that into my statements, that’s on you.

Re: chauvanism and dogmatism. What was that thing you said earlier? Phrasemongering? Sounds like. I’ll add one: hypocrisy.

I don’t fucking care what you think lol.

I beg to differ.