There are two possible futures: one where those chosen for governance due to infinite free time are replaced by those with better ideas or one where I need to learn chinese
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@RustyCrab Patiently waiting for some idiot in Gentoo core team to mask new versions.
@RustyCrab If that happens, I'm unironically switching to BSDs and buying a mac later.
@phnt @RustyCrab
I'm already two steps ahead of you and it's hard to recommend. I've spent a lot of time since the beginning of the year weighing my options for de-itoddlerization, actually.
I'm already two steps ahead of you and it's hard to recommend. I've spent a lot of time since the beginning of the year weighing my options for de-itoddlerization, actually.
@idiot @RustyCrab The mindset is that I won't mind how rotten the base when I can't change it anyway on Windows or macOS. Just like I can mostly tolerate Windows when it is LTSC and a few convenience programs like Powertoys and Autohotkey.
@phnt @RustyCrab That was my thought too when I first got mine. If GNU/Linux died tomorrow I could live with macshit, but there are a lot of nice creature comforts (accidental and on-purpose) that make it hard to move (for good.) Least of all being able to just $ wine somegame.exe, these days that has minimal hoop-jumping. Meanwhile Whiskey is dead, and Crossover is VERY expensive for what it actually is, and there's no way to tell what the next macOS mandating arm64 apps ONLY is going to actually shape up like until the thing comes out.
What comes to be shall be. Maybe consider a MBA or Neo with a desktop. It's hard to recommend blowing a few grand on a well-specced Macbook Pro.
What comes to be shall be. Maybe consider a MBA or Neo with a desktop. It's hard to recommend blowing a few grand on a well-specced Macbook Pro.
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@idiot @phnt @RustyCrab
>I could live with macshit
Macshit is tolerable only because "it doesn't change". The moment they have a greater use base, you'll stop being useful and they'll just become the new Microslop. Just like hardware manufacturers right now. They do not care about userbase need. They'll only care about their needs and will do all it takes for you to change your opinion and eat whatever they're selling. And they have reached such a point that they don't even need you, they just print IOUs between SaaSS companies and economy goes brrrr even tho nothing is produced.
>I could live with macshit
Macshit is tolerable only because "it doesn't change". The moment they have a greater use base, you'll stop being useful and they'll just become the new Microslop. Just like hardware manufacturers right now. They do not care about userbase need. They'll only care about their needs and will do all it takes for you to change your opinion and eat whatever they're selling. And they have reached such a point that they don't even need you, they just print IOUs between SaaSS companies and economy goes brrrr even tho nothing is produced.
@mangeurdenuage @RustyCrab @phnt I agree!
But almost every facet of the GNU/Linux usage experience is WORSE than it was 10 years ago. All of the development is going into little fiefdoms for retards to lord over on the "community" side, while the corporate side is insulating themselves against responsibility by dumping all dev time into atomicslopped flatpakshit. Unless you intend on using the usual suspects, Bazzite, Kinoite, rawdogging SteamOS, I'm not seeing the open-arms welcome. And the worst part is nobody wants to wake up to the realization that things are getting worse under their watch, so everything is fine and if you complain you must be a aislop techbro microsoft plant.
Macshit is a temporary solution to the permanent problems free software is facing right now.
But almost every facet of the GNU/Linux usage experience is WORSE than it was 10 years ago. All of the development is going into little fiefdoms for retards to lord over on the "community" side, while the corporate side is insulating themselves against responsibility by dumping all dev time into atomicslopped flatpakshit. Unless you intend on using the usual suspects, Bazzite, Kinoite, rawdogging SteamOS, I'm not seeing the open-arms welcome. And the worst part is nobody wants to wake up to the realization that things are getting worse under their watch, so everything is fine and if you complain you must be a aislop techbro microsoft plant.
Macshit is a temporary solution to the permanent problems free software is facing right now.
@idiot @RustyCrab @mangeurdenuage Most of the good developers are now gone, haunted away indefinitely, because the bases of their work slowly rotted away. In a weird twist, most of them went to the Apple walled garden.
And they got all replaced by "user friendliness" maniacs that hate anything power users need, because none of it is user friendly, simplistic and elegant. Look at gnome, it used to be good and now every dev an user is a perfect
clone.
And they got all replaced by "user friendliness" maniacs that hate anything power users need, because none of it is user friendly, simplistic and elegant. Look at gnome, it used to be good and now every dev an user is a perfect
clone.
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@phnt @RustyCrab @mangeurdenuage I don't know how Apple got the reputation of being the free software retirement home, all I know is it's true.
@idiot @phnt @mangeurdenuage eventually they have to make money and where else are they going to go? Microsoft? Do they speak Hindi?
@phnt @RustyCrab @idiot @mangeurdenuage a good chunk of the custom rom dev scene (the original one from like 2010-2015) went to iOS due to 🇮🇳