If you try to look ANYTHING linux related on youtube, you probably will stumble on some right-winger. Some of them do have some helpful guides and they can expose unaware people to linux, but when you watch their takes on anything including linux, they are usually the most libertarian guys imaginable??
I have few thoughts why it might be the case, but I'm curious about what are you thinking.
My thoughts are:
- it's free, so they personally don't have to pay for it, meaning more money for them?
- linux has better privacy and better access to dark web and they like privacy because they hate government because taxes and dark web because unlicensed guns i guess
- it's appealing to them because it's some sort of niche that makes them fill smarter and better than anyone else, like some sort of subculture?
- it's not just linux it's everywhere, and i'm just too focused on this
In any case it's weird for me, linux and it's open source nature feels like it would be much more appealing to left rather than to right, right?
It might be better to post this in c/technology but I wasn't sure so i think it's alright if I ask it here..
Also it's my first post here! I was just reading here for a while and finally got courage to ask this question that was sitting in my head for a while!
Linux is generally used by techies, and techies IMO aren't usually good at actually understanding politics and geopolitics, and thus very much exploitable by the right.
I wouldn't judge Linux by the quality of its most visible users though. Linux and the FOSS ecosystem are an important factor for establishing digital sovereignty and thus independence from imperialist tech and influence. PRC, Russia and DPRK and even the EU are known to have at some point used FOSS to create alternative tech solutions to lessen their dependence om foreign tech and thus FOSS is still of more use to the left rather than to the right.
P.S. Welcome to Lemmygrad! Hope you enjoy it here!
Sorry, I didn't meant it to sounds like I'm trying to disregard Linux and FOSS community!! I'm well aware of FOSS being useful for digital sovereignty! Also I really like FOSS myself!!! I was just curious about the most visible guys in western sphere..
Thank you for welcome!!