I think people who think of Linux as an easy alternative think so because they grew up computer literate (with early Windows OS's mostly) when you not only could but had to actively choose you operating system and other software you ran on your own computer, and know how to. You had to make decisions, buy (or download or sail the high seas for) that software and install it and troubleshoot it and do file management and sometimes look under the hood a bit to get it to do what you wanted.
I am not especially tech-savvy for a millenial, I am just a casual gamer and have a computer with Linux on it as well. It is easy for me. I know computer basics because *granpa voice* back in my day that was the only way.
Imagine you live in the BigCorporateCity, a utopia of the future where all your needs are covered by the BigCorporateCityLtd, and among other essentials they provide you a Mealá”áŽč three times a day. Mealá”áŽč is an optimised way to eat, super healthy, super nutritious and super tasty - not that you know how anything else tastes. Of course it's optimised for masses and not you personally, so some people get too many calories and some practically starve and get deficensies, but BigCorporateCityLtd guarantees adequate nutrition to 97% of the population, which is pretty good!
You go for a holiday to the Outside, where people still live in the old ways, like you know your parents lived when they were young. They have told stories but didn't bring many customs with them. You see people live simple and poor lives in their non-smart houses, and every day you actually need to order your food at a restaurant, make a decision on what you want to eat. You are not used to it, it is a bit bothersome. The food is strange but fine, but the nutritional information would make BigCotporateCityLtd excecs faint oit of health and safety concerns. They serve red meat and it comes charred on a grill, don't they know that causes cancer? You can see the chef handling open fire with no safety equipment, pure skill to not burn himself, and you have to admit it is kind of impressive.
A friendly local invites you for dinner in their house for a change. You have a welcoming experience but above all you eat foods you have never even seen, and some of them are the most delicious thing you ever tasted! Who provides it, you ask. They made it themselves? No way, you can do that? You ask how, and they give you the recepy. But the recepy has weird abbreviations, like wtf is is a tbs, or a ml, or a ts? What is the difference betweed stirring, folding and whisking? Where do you get these ingredients? Where would you even find an oven (that your host had to show you) in BigCorporateCity? Well how the hell you are supposed to know! You ask your friend, and they look at you like you are an alien being. "It's easy", they say and then, graciously teach you. You have some difficilty but overall a lovely time, learn a skill and make a friend.
You try to bring some food home to BigCorporateCity but the customs say it is a biohazard and takes it away. Well, no matter, you think, it's gonna be easy to make more. Mealá”áŽč is fine but sometimes you literally want to spice it up a bit.
Asking around for resources you get funny looks. "Why would you want to do such a boring, menial task?" "Do you know what people Outside would do to not have to cook every day?" You say it's actually quite a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.
The BigCorporateSearchEngineAI tells you that home cooking is a hygiene risk. Outside of clean factory conditions the bacteria grows wildly and unpredictably and home cooking is a sure way towards a severe food poisoning! You could get salmonella or botulism or any nasty thing! Also BigCorporateLtd does not allow heating appliances at homes, it is a fire hazard. All for your own protection of course! to protect! Also those flavours you keep gushing about? Fats, so tasty but hugely detrimental for cardiovascular health in excess! Salt, practically poison if you don't calculate the dosage well enough! Real sugar instead of the calorie-free SweetieTreatieEssenceá”áŽč, here we come diabetes! It's a real problem in the undeveloped areas of the world!
All this you knew already but somehow forgot Outside. You got swept up in the idyllic used-to-be.
You weren't going to home-cook every day, you argue. Just every now and then. Just a little treat, a little variety.
BigCorporationCityLtd now provides extra variety and customisation for your Mealá”áŽč subscription, for a fee, the SearchEngineAI informs you. You take a moment to think and upgrade, seeing no other way out of you monotone diet.
Soon enough, you hope, you will forget the taste of home-cooked dessert with real sugar and grow used to the taste of SweetieTreatieEssenceá”áŽč again.
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