Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

I can't understand why people are still using proprietary software like Windows or OSX when superior free software exists. It's a testament to the hidden monopolizing forces which exists in our society.

Because the free software isn't superior

Superior for who?

What you value is not what everyone values.

Also, I'd argue that the monopolizing forces are not so much hidden as targeted.

Then why is it that every person I know or even heard about who switched to Linux never went back to OSX or Windows?

The only thing which made them use OSX or Windows in the first place was their ignorance of alternatives. Clearly you've never used any consumer-grade Linux distro like Ubuntu.

Linux only just gained support for things like HDR, a decade after macOS or Windows, and the main desktop shipped by the main distributions doesn't even natively support tray icons.

I'm not sure it's superior. Although GNOMEs workspace implementation imho is vastly superior to both Windows and macOS

OSX hasn't existed for five years and hasn't been publicly advertised as that for much longer, so your sampling may be biased.

> The only thing which made them use OSX or Windows in the first place was their ignorance of alternatives.

No, it's the availability of daily software that people use, like Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.

> Clearly you've never used any consumer-grade Linux distro like Ubuntu.

I daily drive a Linux distro. I don't pretend it's better for the average human than MacOS or Windows. The market reflects that. Clearly, you've never worked in an office where the only thing available is a Windows or Mac laptop because those are what IT provides and that's where your customers/users are.

Are you kidding? By the time you get through the first half of the requirements document of most windows customers, OSX and Linux alternatives have already been thoroughly ruled out.

I honestly cannot tell if this is brilliant sarcasm or digital veganism. I hope the former, because it's perfect lol

When it starts with the phrase “FIP-S compliant”, hardly anyone is wants to do that on Linux.

> and the main desktop shipped by the main distributions doesn't even natively support tray icons.

…while perhaps there's a distribution out there that I'm unaware of not having tray icons … I've had tray icons since the first time I used Linux, and I still do?

You could say we've been "duped".

> Then why is it that every person I know or even heard about who switched to Linux never went back to OSX or Windows?

I used Linux on my main desktop for about 10 years, then went back to Windows. There, you've heard of one.

Fedora.

You live in a parallel universe where wolfssl doesn't exist?

Oh I know about this, but tell what’s simpler: Embed wolfssl per app / make it work with openssl as a module (for system wide usage) or turn a registry key to true?

It seems that both RHEL [1] and Ubuntu Pro have docs on FIPS, so it looks like the distribution vendors have thought about this problem, at least for paying customers. Might you be able to sketch out what the problem with FIPS compliance on Linux is?

[1] https://access.redhat.com/compliance/fips [2] https://ubuntu.com/security/fips