it does not invalidate my argument if I don’t waste effort on someone who clearly isn’t continuing in good faith.

Well, this comment of yours doesn’t look like a good faith argument.

Neither did your comment of

So who debates in good faith and how often?

Someone JAQing off is not having a good faith argument, and it does not invalidate my argument if I don’t waste effort on someone who isn’t continuing in good faith.

I see the argument you’re hinting at, and it doesn’t invalidate the argument either, but I’m not going to spend time debating an argument you haven’t bothered to actually make.

If you can’t see how your behavior isn’t a real discussion I don’t want to have one.

You literally said it’s impossible to have a real discussion online, and now you’re criticising someone for not engaging you in the way you want to have a “real discussion”?

Apparently not you.

If you’re debating in good faith you are bettering yourself by improving your understanding of a different view point, and letting your own views be challenged so you can reassess if you still hold them.

If your goal in an argument is to change the other person’s mind, then changing your mind (by taking in new information, learning, and understanding a different point of view) is seen as losing. That’s a terrible way to look at what is ultimately personal growth.

I waited to install Linux until I put in another drive to dual-boot, and proceeded to never go back to my windows install.
I was surprised at how easy it was to get things running, and any difficulties I had were mostly the result of me assuming things were more complicated than they are and not looking for simple solutions.

I’ve been shoving a ton of .exe files into steam

I wasn’t aware that was an option. Do you have a link on how to do that?

It’s not enough for a company to have a lot of money, they have to have all the money.

Remember: under capitalism companies are legally obligated to pursue every last dollar they can possibly get, regardless of the damage it will do to the product, company, customer, or bystanders.

I’m volunteering to install Linux on my machine instead of just bitching about Microsoft while continuing to use Windows.

I don’t see how pointing out the reality of “if you’re not going to stop using Windows then Microsoft doesn’t care what you think” somehow makes me responsible for every computer in the world.

Lemmy folk forgetting that not every person cares enough to switch OSes.

Right, so if they don’t care they’re not going to complain very much about it. If they are going to complain what are they going to do about it? If it’s “just complain and nothing else” then Microsoft doesn’t care.

I believe Mint is designed for ease of installation and use, and similarity to Windows.

Do those programs not work on WINE?

What Linux needs to get widely adopted is settle for one central distro

One central distro guarantees its eventual enshittification. I’m happy with the knowledge that if my distro enshittifies I can just move to a different one.

It is bullshit, and people will complain while continuing to use Windows so why should Microsoft care?

It’s even worse if you’re watching competition shows:
“Coming up: things you’re going to see in the next 5 minutes.”
“Welcome back: recap of what you’ve seen in the last 5 minutes.”

My wife and I recently started watching that. Skipping the first 6 minutes of episodes because we don’t need to meet all the drivers again, skipping at every commercial break because I don’t need to see what’s coming up or what we just watched…

Mint was painless for me and I’ve had no problems with my Steam library

First, needing to set things up does not mean the OS is actively fighting you. If you need to install something for your hardware to work Linux actively wants to aid you, where as Microsoft is actively fighting against you keeping your files and accounts local.

Second, I tried Linux last week and had minimal issues getting my hardware to work. The biggest problems I had were a result of me over-complicating things because I assumed it would be harder and assumed Linux was at fault. Turns out the specific software I was using was the problem and the fix was easy.

Please tell me what exactly you disagree with.

You sounding like an advertisement for OneDrive. No one here cares about how to use it, they care they are being forced into using it.