Haven’t had much need for it here.

On Reddit, I use it on those things that actively take away from the conversation. Trolling, pushing obviously wrong information, blatant racism/sexism/other-ism.

But, as little as I do use it, I find it supremely important to have. Trolls get downvoted out of the conversation. It’s a way to fight brigading. It’s the only easy/consistent way to give input as to what content doesn’t fit into a particular sub. Downvoting can be problematic, but it’s less problematic than those sites that try to be all warm/fuzzy and only allow positive input.

Pretty sure FB can handle losing 10% of part of their business.

It really bugs me that one of the first things he brings up is “zomg, you don’t have to compile your own kernel!”. I’ve been dailying Linux for a decade and I used it intermittently for probably a decade prior. I’ve had to compile my own kernel exactly zero times. I’ve chosen to once or twice, and that was 15+ years ago.

Has Linus installed Linux at all in the past ten years? It’s plug in a USB stick and go. The most technical thing is drive partitioning (which admittedly is pretty technical in the grand scale of $UtterNoob–>$UnixGuru), but that’s also not required. There’s no chasing down drivers or repos or anything. It’s easier than a Windows install, if for no other reason than not having to punch in a 25-digit product key.

Sure you can build Linux from various levels of scratch, but that’s an option, and you’d think he’d celebrate it as such.

Harrumph.

I agree that Facebook being the gatekeepers is bad. However, you’re going to need more than just “Facebook bad” to get people to use something else. The bulk of the population just doesn’t run the same calculus in regards to privacy vs convenience.