That is NOT what you said, not at all how you characterised that exchange with your friend. Really. Go back and read what you wrote. If he came to you wanting it, cool. But again, that’s not at all what you said. As for who you are, I’ve learned enough, and would prefer not to get to know you further. Now, other than your friend supposedly asking you, leave people alone about what OS they’re running.

After a lot of convincing… dude. That is totally shoving it down their throat like a religion. YOU and your zealotry are the far bigger barrier to entry.

Leave the poor guy alone. If he wants an OS, he will seek it out on his own.

Nothing. Nothing at all.

1. It’s not a barrier to entry. 2. Who says there is a goal to get as many users to adopt Linux?

Linux survives with or without an influx of new users. This isn’t a religion. The need or desire to go convert people to using Linux is misguided. Those that want or need it will find it. Please don’t adopt one of religion’s worst traits and apply it to Linux, that being the need to spread the message like a cancer.

Nobody needs more videos to skip over.

No. It shouldn’t be part of the OS at all. It should be a third party package that one can choose to then add the repo or download the package, and manually install. And then click that you agree you want age tracking before it actually installs. It’s should be very manual and opt in only, and never installed by default. That way those that wish to can have it, and no one else need comply in advance to fascism. Opt out is an awful plan. You know that. You’re just trolling or are for a deeper police state.

He didn’t comply, he collaborated. It won’t deter anyone but pro fascist programmers from developing for Linux. Your defence of the indefensible says a lot about you, too.

The option is not supposed to be there at all. Don’t comply with ANY part of it, especially in advance.

Well, I’m not in a lynch mob. So there’s that.

That is not the point and you know it.

Not true. Because the stated purpose of the laws at play is to enable that to be queried so that sites can decide what is appropriate for you to see.

THIS! Those that do obey in advance, especially trying to help impose it on the rest of us, are collaborators!!! Treat them as such!

Collaborator

I wanna new distro
One that won’t make me sick
One that won’t make me crash my PC
Or make me feel like a d**k
I want a new distro
One that won’t hurt my head
One that won’t make run CPU too high
Or make my NAS disks RED

One that won’t make me defrag
Watching squares of blue
One that makes me feel like I feel when I use UNIX too…
When I get to boooot you.