The software in the screenshot doesn’t require you to use Discord, but that’s not good enough there.

It was true before the internet too, there was just less opportunities to witness it because you didn’t interact with thousands of strangers at once.

Why stop there? Do the open source apps you’re advocating run on Windows or Nvidia drivers? You could get upset about them too, because they’re also one step removed from something closed source.

Then it sounds like all that’s left to do is get 150 million people to use them.

Read the damn article before commenting.

You, 46 minutes ago. I guess wanting people to make a token effort instead of demanding to be spoon fed is only a problem when I do it.

Okay, so you’re not upset, but still didn’t bother to find the answers for him.

Let’s just say you did decide to answer him though, what would be the very first thing you step you’d take? Would it be “type those questions into a search engine”?

I understand asking questions when answers might be complex or you’re actively involved in a conversation with someone knowledgeable, but I’m tired of this deliberate helplessness on social media.

You also could have done that, but you chose to get upset about me not doing it instead.

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I think there’s a baseline that Linux developers need to take more seriously. The PopOS people are good reference, especially their upcoming DE.

Imagine you had a basic desktop; top bar, dock and desktop widgets.

Each of those is a different app and each app comes in 4 different flavors: “Fast but ugly”, “Pretty”, “Tinkerer’s dream” and “Well designed but under developed”.

Sounds great right? Just pick whichever ones you like best. But along the way, things that would be considered “requirements so basic we don’t even need to state them” are not met.

So you value pretty and get the pretty versions. But each of them was developed by a different team, each with different opinions about what “pretty” is. Your desktop doesn’t have a cohesive look with colours and fonts mismatched in a way that no monolithic project would ever tolerate.

So you grab one pretty app, and two tinkerer’s dream apps. You can make them match yourself! That’s the power of Linux. You put a week of work into bringing your desktop up to this default standard, fighting a mountain of faff along the way. Each app uses a different language for their code and configs. Each app supports different features. You find yourself wishing they followed the “well designed but underdeveloped” app, but it hasn’t had an update for years.

Finally, your desktop is ready for unixporn… as long as you don’t open your file browser.

While I broadly agree, I feel like the focus of these fragments is just scratching their own personal itch, rather than building an improvement. I quickly lose interest in “software that only values X” vs “software that only values Y”. I just want software that’s good.

I’m not sure if this is a hypothesis with any level of acceptance

Unless an actual record is found describing what they were used for, it’s all just guesses anyway.

Seems like plenty of context to me. The CSIRO invented something that changed the world, back before neoliberals cut their funding.

Having guns is just like having encryption or any software.

People aren’t mutilating school children beyond recognition or executing their ex-girlfriends with RSA encryption.

However, we shouldn’t let issues like guns get in the way of basic freedoms like the right not to be searched without a warrant

They can shoot it better then, like they promised.

Yes, but there are countries with ranked choice voting that still ultimately come down to “red neoliberals vs blue neoliberals”. They’ve built a machine that is extremely difficult to stop.

Don’t worry, every school shooting the 2A types bleat about how their guns keep us safe from tyranny (when they’re not busy voting for tyrants).

Learn to practice good mental hygiene.

Which is functionally identical to the last one you posted. Are you just doing the same joke in every format you can? Fuck the internet sucks now.