Six months ago I moved from the US to a country where BYD and other Chinese brands are available. In the past I owned GM cars. The former GM executive is correct. After trying Chinese cars I find it extremely difficult to justify paying 40-60% more for a car made by GM or anyone else. GM’s best selling cars here are made by its Chinese joint ventures and aren’t available for sale in the US, and they are the only GM cars I would buy.

None of what you listed is a viable alternative for a myriad of reasons. Only GNU+Linux can replace Windows.

• Android: a mobile OS first and foremost with very limited usability as a general purpose desktop operating system.
• MacOS: hardware from one vendor only.
• *BSD: more niche with even lesser support than GNU+Linux.

While the former seems to be the obvious trend and Europe has historically leaned towards it. I don’t see how one results in the other. Whether they stick with Microsoft or not is more economical than political.

Installing Arch might be a hassle, I tried it once and couldn’t figure it out so a kept on using Ubuntu and its derivatives. But when I got a Steam Deck I found Steam OS to be easy and the Arch documentation to be thorough and useful.

Hopefully this helps increase adoption. Maybe in a few years GNU+Linux will have 10% of the desktop operating systems market. Maybe even Wine won’t be necessary anymore except for legacy software.

[Some*] Europeans just can’t get over their Arab and Muslim-hate despite neither Qatar nor Saudi Arabia posing any threat to Europe and actually being good trading partners. No tariffs, no restrictions, no unfair competition. They adopt many European standards and are a huge market for European goods and services. Yet still the hate is constantly being peddled.

* hopefully a minority but the hate seems to be universal regardless of the political leaning.

The US embassy is not a trustworthy source. But Yemen gave the ship clear warnings before attacking it. The ship’s captain ignored them and should be held responsible. Obviously that’s not how the world works and Western powers once more will attack Yemen for the crime of exercising their sovereignty and standing with Palestine against the genocide.