I am cheering so fucking hard for cyber warfare at this point holy shit. Someone please blow up the internet already it has produced nothing of value
Imagine if we would’ve spent all the resources for computer processors into funding irl tools like high speed rail and efficient transportation systems. Like holy shit we really fucked up, I spent a few days unplugged and everything that people value about the internet can be boiled down to just another circus
There has to be a niche for pre-built Linux rigs where all the configuration issues are solved and it just works out of the box. That’s what’s needed IMO to get Linux to been taken seriously outside of a small group of techies.
I personally see it like this:
Linux is REALLY good for people who do very basic as fuck shit, basically chromebook adjacent. if all you do is use a browser and use web apps to do work (e.g google docs, google sheets). Linux is amazing. Your hardware never ages and slows down because there isn’t major additions to the OS to bog down the system down the line.
its also amazing for people who are extremely technically inclined, because you have a lot of tools to fix or create a lot of shit, and modify stuff due to its open sourceish nature.
where it’s not exactly ideal are for people in the middle. If you use it for specific programs (e.g youre a gamer, you mess with hardware drivers and worry whether your game will even run on linux. Youre an artist, you have to use alternatives to adobe suite. youre a streamer, you have to worry about which hardware you buy because not all off the shelf streaming hardware works on linux, list goes on) then you play this game of merry go round to get something working. Sometimes theres an easy solution, sometimes you have to jump through several hoops.
That first group is where I see an untapped opportunity. If someone can build a sleak machine that runs Mint or Ubuntu and boots into a good GUI, has Firefox ready to go, LibreOffice or similar, etc. then it could compete with the likes of Chrome books or all of those “budget” laptops that feel like ass to use.
No ads, no Spyware, no bloat, no subscriptions. Your grandma’s new favorite laptop. And without needing a Microsoft or Google license maybe it can undercut the existing models on price?
There are.a bunch of companies that do this already. System76 is probably what you’re looking for.