With the debate over #Microsoft #Windows vs #GNU #Linux raging on, I look at why Windows is unquestionably the top choice in the foreseeable in terms of ease, #accessibility, and #ethics. Noble as #FOSS advocacy is, can it really compete, especially among #women, going forward?
Some of you did not watch the video and it shows
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@sophia I'm calling it now: one day the bait and switch is going to be the gnome instead of rick astley and everyone will be surprised
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Sorry, but I'm never gonna give Ubuntu up.
@sophia You are just plain evil. <3
@sophia oh come on, this is one is too obvious 
@grainloom @sophia but what if she's trolling US
@sophia you evil person
I love it
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Uff, especially the part about ethics got me to reconsider using #Microsoft #Windows. Would never have thought how bad #GNU #Linux actually ist from that standpoint.
@EorlBruder
You were really immersed in the topic! 
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@sophia This is why you aren't allowed nice things.
@sophia perfect 🏅.
i haven't been rolled in years! and with my laptop speakers on in the middle of a coffeeshop no less.
@sophia i love you sophia this is so helpful and educational, especially for someone like me who knows nothing about operating systems
@sophia i actually like the song hahahhaah
@sophia You bet this video was edited on a windows machine.
@trickster how dare you it was android
@sophia Well, it's not windows, but it's the only good linux anyway.
@sophia saw it coming, clicked anyway, no regrets!
@sophia always the same arguments, over and over…
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@sophia : Rick BASHley ? 
@sophia i truly welcomed this in my heart
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I think the reason why #Microsoft #Windows is the first choice is mainly the support of hardware manufacturers, the education system that teach about the only viable choice and so on. There is a market structure is pointed to support Windows as the only option. That's a deniable true that ends in making a market that goes around it (making Main software only avaible on it).
@Jolt2bolt didn't click the video huh
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I've been rickrolled....🧐
@rick you always win with rick 
@rick best to roll with it
@sophia This is what "Boosts are not endorsement" is for.
@sophia and what if we love it?
@Vetra then it's odd but I'm down with it
@sophia some of us knew, in our hearts, what would be in the video from the moment it first appeared, and could not stop ourselves from alternately saluting and dabbing
@bryceyoungquist dab away, Bryce Youngquist. It is a deserving moment
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This video made my morning.
@sophia doesn't play for me :/
@sophia I feel like I have suffered enough, although.. I guess I'm never gonna give you up....
@sophia I click play just to make sure it is what I suspect it to be.
why windows? Just for playing some games that wine doesn't support
@astheroth watch the video.
@sophia I knew it, yet I still clicked
@TheEnbyperor I would give up playing these videos, but I wouldn't want to let @sophia down 🤷♂️
@bobstechsite @TheEnbyperor this is what makes this place wonderful, such community
@sophia Wow, with a guarantee like that, Windows is the best OS ever!
@sophia wow, never would have thought it like that...
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Does it count as a rickroll if you thought "never going to give you up" was the actual argument for Windows over Linux? To be fair, it's what has worked for the last 20 years.
@leadore the women hashtag started when a guy earnestly put in a toot how much he loves and respects women as an ally, and put it in with the hashtag. 😬
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@sophia It wasn't so much the hashtag as the phrase itself. Window is easier, how can FLOSS compete, /especially among women/ 😬
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some day i will learn to distrust
I will fully admit these arguments have merit but I think I need to spend more time considering them
Proud of you all for boosting this even tho you definitely hate it. Ily, that's friendship ❤