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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2024
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Any problems with installing Linux? Try openSUSE if you don't like Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian, which are the most often recommended ones. It's the distribution most polished for that abstract "average user" that I've seen. And it's one of the traditional mainstream ones and doesn't seem to be going anywhere. (Btw all those Arch-based schoolboy distributions are trash and I don't use them, I also don't use Arch btw. I use Void.)
BQ is nice. It is a major manufacturer though.
These are good suggestions for tech people IMO. I was thinking more general population that just wants to buy a product and use it as is. My mom isn't going to get a laptop and then install linux. I'd have to. ๐
I've never heard of BQ before, so that was an interesting mention. I didn't look hard enough to find out if it was available in the US.
I think the overall sentiment I'm conveying is that as a consumer, I'd like to just stop doing business with entities I deem bad faith (which is easy to say until you need a new TV and the 'good' company TV is twice as expensive). There's not a lot of choices for average people in this category (big tech). You'll be exposed to them almost out of necessity. I suppose appropriate regulation for those giant companies, and the US wont, but at least the EU will.
I also wonder if MS/Google/Apple were EU based corps, if they would take the same actions? I can't say how much of an average EU country's economy a company like Microsoft would be, but just the thought of how much that would be makes me think they'd get preferential treatment in which ever country that would be. I'd have to look at brands like BMW and see how they did doing that MPG scandal, things like that.
Then let's hope for regulators. I'm in the second world anyway, so don't know how much of an effect those would be.