Freedom to fork things that work instead of improving them.Freedom to rewrite things that work instead of improving them.Freedom to have things not working because the developers have to account for a billion different configurations.Freedom to incorrectly configure your machine and cause obscure cryptic issues that seem unrelated and impossible for other people to replicate without taking the same steps.Freedom to have inferior software because the developers can't assert the user environment.Basically, freedom to fuck it up in every step of the way.MacOS "just works" because they control the hardware and the software.Windows "just works" because the user has no control over the entire OS stack.Linux "works in your machine" because you happened to have a similar environment as a specific developer.After using Linux for so long I treat so many things as minor inconveniences (like different display/audio protocols supporting different features, how enabling the compositor fucks specific games, and so on) that would never happen on any other OS.I just don't feel like Linux will ever go anywhere as long as things keep fracturing whenever they reach past a certain size. Having a BDFL in your project seems to work well but I don't know if that's a good solution, it won't stop people from forking your shit instead of contributing to a single effort.Maybe I should take a look into the *BSD systems or just buy a Mac for the first time in my life.
my balls hurt
He fell for the arch meme
>>108505189I like that Linux filters retards.That's a feature, not a bug.
>>108505334I've been using Linux since the times you could ask for a free Ubuntu CD. That's probably longer than you've been alive.Also, that's also one of the points, there's no "fell for the macos meme", there's no "fell for the windows meme", but theres a trillion "fell for (distro|de|protocol|software) " in linux. Either way, thanks for reinforcing my point.
>>108505346>there's no "fell for the windows meme"Yes but it's not because Windows is amazing, everyone complains about it all the time. It's because it's the most used OS and what everyone and every prebuilt PC defaults to. You don't fall for the Windows meme because if you don't make a choice you are using Windows.
>>108505346>there's no "fell for the macos meme"There are tons of people falling for the Apple ecosystem meme many of whom get burned when they want to leave and find that everything they own digitally is tied to Apple, or that they need to repair or replace something and find out it's not so easy without outright buying a whole new thing or paying out of the ass to an Apple store. Windows doesn't have this to the same extent but most people on Windows are tied to specific proprietary software and Google. There's whole legions of, "I would like to use other thing but I have to use shitty corporate thing at my job/to make music/to make videos/make art so I have no freedom" people out there. Notice I didn't specifically mention any particular OS or service out there.
>>108505345That's fine, and works well for that purpose considering how no one can read a manual nowadays, the issue arises when people start trying to push for mainstream adoption when half the things are broken and the solution is hard to pinpoint if you don't already know where to look.Like I said in my post, the minor inconvenience that made me write this down was how a game showed 200+FPS but felt like shit. After a few minutes my brain just zapped and I remembered that "maybe it's the compositor" as if this reaction was supposed to be a natural answer to a game not working well. (it was the XFCE compositor)If any of my non technical colleagues had the same issue they'd spend hours and hours trying to fix the GAME because they simply are unaware that a compositor is even a thing.>>108505367Now notice how the issues an OS with 90% of marketshare has can be mostly fixed with simple (and rather self explanatory) registry edits. The fact is that with popularity you inevitably bring some people that you'd hardly be able to call human. If someone in 2026 is still talking about how "windows forces reboots after an update" I just don't think they should be using computers at all.I am not here to defend Windows though, I personally don't use it and you shouldn't have to use registry edits, but I hope that you can understand what I'm trying to say. The "problems" Windows has are not as fundamental as the ones Linux has.>>108505386I have no experience with it so I can't tell whether I'd be able to steer away from the perils of a walled garden while still reaping the benefits of a concise and well planned OS. Since I use Linux I already use plenty of open multi platform alternatives (syncthing, jellyfin, keepass, local backups, local music, etc) and I think most of them would still be available there.Also, I mentioned MacOS mainly because it's the best example of a good (as in single-vision, coherent) ecosystem but of course I'd try the *BSD family first.
>>108505189I have met anti-Linux and anti-FOSS people. They are always failed it guys that have big ego, but are actually non-tech-savvy. The hate starts when school or work forces them to learn Linux and other people laugh at them when they can't even use it. This starts life long hate because they finally figured out that they are not tech-savvy or "power user". There is many consumers, e-celebs and reviewers who actually thought they are tech-savvy. Linus or some other non-tech-savvy consumer just buying a new phone or GPU or installing a driver doesn't make them anything else than butthurt non-tech-savvy consumer.Also WinTroon and macTroon have worse DEI code of conduct, worse cuck license, npc sheep slave propriterary code and everything else is worse. Doesn't matter if you dislike LGBT or SystemD/Wayland, those WinTroon and macTroon have it 1000 times worse and also without any alternatives or solutions for anything.
Steve Jobs was a BDFLSo was Bill GatesLet's not wally about and limit who this term applies to
>settings are stored in the most obtuse confusing ways, literally in file and directory names (see: in the file name, not in the file)>try to change mouse scroll speed>have to download a third party terminal program and create files in random folders using an unusable terminal text editor that uses it's own special snowflake hotkeys for everything, and those files are then formatted in the most cryptic way imaginable>try to do literally anything>"just copypaste this unreadable braille into your terminal bro">HURR DURR WHY ARE YOU CONFIGURING THINGS WRONGBecause your OS is a fucking unusable piece of shit.
>>108505189i just do pacman -Syu every week or two and it works
>>108506456> I'm a retarded subhuman Yes, we know.
>>108506379Your point being?
