Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

I don’t have any problem job hunting on a Linux box. Why would that matter?

Your edge case is not indicative of a larger trend.

Which part didn’t make sense?

I didn’t interpret the original post as “What would a generic user consider necessary installs?” I interpreted it as “Could you suggest some software that you consider absolutely essential so that I could discover some that I might’ve overlooked?”

Brilliant.

This is like somebody asking you what you want for breakfast, and you say “Food”.

Manipulated, you say? With propaganda?

Well, clearly this is a bridge too far! The Trump administration can never get away with this!

I love this, because it’s exactly the opposite of the received “wisdom” you’d get from many corners of the Internet. As long as you aren’t mucking around the internals of a Linux install, it’s going to be stable, and it will be adequate for common computing tasks. Arguably, even better than adequate.

Well, if they want to intimidate everybody who says anything anti-Trump…they’re going to be very busy. What I’m worried about are leaders of movements.

You don’t know what either of those words mean, do you.

It’s funny how they’re saying “You need to use Linux” and not “You need to get off Facebook”. How’s Linux going to save you from Facebook spying on you?

If you think this is new, you’re very naive. They just have better tools to spy on you now.

Yeah, the government and corporations would never spy on us. What a ridiculous idea!

Mandrake! It was a fucking disaster! Fortunately, I came back later using Kubuntu and had a much better experience.

He lives in your head rent-free

What a freeloader! He should pay up.

And yet, if enough people did that, you would start to question your own eyes.

Most companies aren’t peddling a toxic product like cigarettes (or social media).

How is it more harmful?

So, you have friends who are as stupid as an AI. Got it. What’s your point?

Well, you know what they say: you can’t buy enough penguins to hide your grandma’s house.

How is it not? Showerheads and refrigerators are technology.