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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Now, for an actual sane take, unless we do the actual marketing work in order to gather interest from people, no, not even close to everyone will switch to Linux, specially considering Microsoft has literal millions of dollars to spend in marketing and will likely spin this in a way that non-techy people specially will buy in due to not knowing any choice.

This is a PSA begging people to contribute to their favorite distros not (only) with code but with marketing. Social media posts, videos, word of mouth recommendations, advocacy, events, etc. If your distro doesn't have a marketing team, create one, as most projects should already have done two decades ago. If your distro has one (like we do in Fedora), join it. There'll likely be something you can help with.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Okay, you've got a point ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch doesn't need a marketing department. If someone uses Arch they'll tell you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you have a minute to talk about our Lord and Savior, Patrick Volkerding?
Have you ever set up Arch with Secureboot, full disk encryption, Btrfs snapshots, NVidia drivers and multilib support and thought "man, I wish this was harder"? Then Slackware is the distro for you!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is suspiciously similar to the original pitch Torvalds made for Linux... I'm in!