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as it should be, nobody likes proprietary vendor-locked formats that get shoved down your throat

It will stop being free the second a corporation gets it’s hands on it, makes improvements and put’s those under a proprietary license

I’ve taken up saying “temporarily free/libre” and “permanently free/libre” instead of the permissive/copyleft, since imo “permissive” has a suggestive positive connotation. Especially to ppl who do not know much about the free software movement

surprise surprise: terminally online risers with 4chan lvl takes export their toxicity to everything they touch. thus get rightly hammered

https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

there is an emacs command for that

I feel this, Gnome and it’s opinionated workflow just “gets out of the way” in my experience

I plan on switching to Slowroll once it’s matured, but I think I’ll stay with Gnome :p

This is very similar to my experience tho I have skipped most of my ricing/customization phase with Gnome bc I just didn’t feel the need to do much about it bar a few extensions

I’m glad Fedora comes with the most usable no-bs/out-of-the-way (in my subjective experience) DE by default. Yes I do run it with Tweaks and a few extensions, but otherwise I have no need for extensive customization for customization’s sake (which seems so many ppls problem with GNOME, smth that I couldn’t find more irrelevant), since everything about its UI/UX is so intuitive. I understand if people don’t like its opinionated workflow, but it’s just right for me personally…

I don’t get the proposal either way bc Fedora has always been the spearhead of vanilla GNOME and there is an official KDE spin iirc

no you didn’t, you can install flatpak using the terminal but iirc flatpak are mostly made with GUI applications in mind, while snaps support installing command line utils quite well

…no?

The backend is proprietary and you or other orgs cannot run their own server. It’s harcoded to use Canonical’s servers for obtaining snaps and their metadata…

seething Ubuntu fans are funny af lol.
Your leash being longer than average doesn’t remedy the fact that you’re still tied to a pole…

snaps are a proprietary vendor-locked format, the only redeeming quality is being able to run them in cli (once Flatpak get that too, there is no valid reason for snaps to exist).

I just find it midly infuriating (if that even is a thing, meaning I hate it but it’s not that significant for me to distro hop on my work laptop) to have two “universal” package formats on my system with Canonical shoving the objectively worse one (from a free/libre pov) down my throat…

the average brain on Windows…

“wdym a different OS doesn’t behave exactly like Winsows? That just means it’s bad!”

“It’s Linux’ fault that my proprietary software/configurator for overpriced hardware gimmicks isn’t working and definitely not just the vendor not giving enough of a shit to provide support (or at least help with community drivers) on other platforms as well!!1!”

we making it into techo-feudalism with that pattern 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Just ameliorate it after running the Github scripts

That’s usually the point at which I remove every software by those devs from my machines…

using Discord as a wanna be wiki/forum or Matrix chatroom replacement speaks volumes imo

luckily not many free/libre projects tread down that path. It’s more of an open source thing (since they don’t rly care about the 4 freedoms anyway)

I just switched to Fedora and been happy with it for ~2 yrs

Arch moment

(no I will never forget that one time they borked the grub package and there was no notification of it in the newsfeed)

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I will always choose Windows over Mac, if I have to. Using MacOS is infuriating on so many levels, I’d rather give myself the bullet (which doesn’t mean much tbh). At least I can ameliorate Windows for my VMs (in case of apps not working on Wine) which makes it ok to use

I know that this is irrational and I try to not let it influence my perception of people, but my brain is usually wired to “Mac user detected: technical opinion discarded”