Regardless of operating system—Windows, Mac, GNU/systemd/Linux (I had to), BSD, whatever—is desktop computer use niche in its own right?

[the@ultracrepidarian.mysteriar.ch]

Regardless of operating system—Windows, Mac, GNU/systemd/Linux (I had to), BSD, whatever—is desktop computer use niche in its own right?

I would normally never sub-toot like this, but the message this is about was probably auto-deleted; I can't find it. It was also so long ago that I feel like I would be taking it outside of the original context anyway, so it's probably for the best.

At any rate, someone said that; that even using a desktop in the first place is niche. They also said that Linux desktop use is even more niche, and I would have to agree with that, obviously; I don't know if I agree with the first statement or not, though, honestly.

I don't talk to enough people about computers, enough, outside of whatever context in which it's already assumed that said people are already interested in computers, so I have no real way to gauge this.

#AskFedi #FediPoll

[jpaskaruk@growers.social]

@the there is a desire among the SV elite to push us all off of general purpose computers, and onto their locked-down phones and tabs.

In parts of the world that never had the critical mass of general purpose machines that we Western grew up with, the flood of phones was the moment of mass tech adoption, and in those places, the idea that PCs are the outlier is easy to spread, and they do spread it. The last thing they want is more people having their own technological agency.

There's dangerous levels of complacency afoot, even entertaining this idea.