I was eating some chocolate when I imagined a world where Hershey’s was widely accepted, even by elitists, as the best chocolate.

Is consumer elitism just a facade for pretentious contrarians? Or are there things where even most snobs agree with the masses?

Also, I mean that the product is intrinsically considered to be the best option. I’m not considering social products where the user network makes the experience.

Edit: I was not eating Hershey’s. Hershey’s being the best chocolate is a bizarro universe in this hypothetical.

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    You’re right. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. But for those few games that don’t run you get:

    • A truly FREE OS
    • No data tracking
    • No advertisements
    • No OneDrive
    • No forced updates
    • Complete control over your system, including visuals
    • Tons of FOSS

    Computers are more than video game machines. I made the final switch away from Windows because I wanted to be treated like a person, not a customer.

    It’s a lot more about philosophy than functionality. When something doesn’t work in Linux, I know it’s a genuine mistake someone made and that it wasn’t intentional. M$ has infinite money and they can’t even figure out how to keep the Sleep function working while at the same time forcing you to sign up for an account that they can choose to cancel for any reason whenever they feel like.

    You don’t own your PC on Windows.

    • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
      113·
      2 days ago
      • OS is free from pirating
      • Is tracked anyways, so doesn’t see the point of changing OSes just to be tracked less on one thing
      • I don’t get advertisements unless I’m on the internet and if I’m not using adblock plus the version of Windows I pirated, I see less of them anyways
      • Never used
      • Probably the only thing
      • Totally subjective and sometimes total control has a lot of risks than rewards and irrecoverable consequences
      • Nah
      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        71·
        2 days ago
        • There are entire communities ready to prove you wrong on the piracy issue, also you can just windows games through WINE/Proton or a virtual enviornment
        • Nothing to hide has been and will always be a farce of an argument. Be proactive so you don’t feel trapped in surveillance.
        • Congrats, on a firefox-derived browser with Ublock origin (or a Chromium-derived browser like Helium with Ublock origin), you’ll see even less ads!
        • shame
        • wow, how dismissive
        • That’s why there’s so many distros to choose from, with some explicitly immutable to prevent said risks (at the cost of reducing the amount of customization possible, similar to Windows restrictions)
        • double shame
        • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
          310·
          2 days ago

          See? This is what I am talking about, this browbeating shit I see from linux users. It is insufferable and you all sound like advertisements and I hate advertisements. Linux technically has advertisers and it is people like you.

          The difference with Windows advertisements and Linux advertisers is, I can close and ignore the Windows advertisement. With Linux, you fuckers just follow and hound on everyone that so much even mentions Linux and how they talk about THEIR computing preferences.

          “WHURRT?! U NOT USE LINUX! U ARE SHEEPLE WHO DON’T USE LINUX!! UR DICK WILL BE ALL HARD IF U JUST USE LINUX!”

          I never EVER hear this shit from Windows users, only loser no-life Linux ones. Fuck all the way off.

          • MesaOP
            8·
            2 days ago

            Can you honestly say that you didn’t come to this thread looking for this fight?

            I dual boot Kubuntu and Windows Enterprise LTSC for the best of both worlds, at the price of a little bit of redundant storage. There’s pros and cons to both. I think being able to recognize that is all the other user was initially saying, rather than pretending like they’re not there.

            It’s also why I feel like the answer isn’t in the spirit of the question: each of the major OSes hit a different type of user, and you just admitted that the snobs and elitists mostly exist on the Linux side (and Mac), which is true.