RoyaltyInTraining
No criminal charges for him or his partner, who started blasting too. The first one resigned after the sheriff’s internal affairs investigation told him that he did an oopsie.
I spent hours the other day uninstalling adware from my laptop after reinstalling windows on it. It's ridiculous.
I love documentation like this. No need to be formal when a simple analogy works too
I don't get how you go from "Desktop distros aren't mature enough to have every feature under the sun" to "Linux distros are shit"
I always hated mixed fractions as a kid. Thought the teacher just pulled that concept out of their ass.
Yeah people are gonna argue about everything, and the only way you can get them to stop is to take the choice away from them. Doesn't sound like it fits into the principles of open source software, right?
Multionitor scaling and HDR are luxuries. Some distros are working to fix them, others aren't. The good thing is though that once the code is upstream, everyone benefits from it. Even small distros that choose to run Gnome or KDE can just change a few config files to enable all the fancy things these projects provide.
Of course that doesn't mean smaller distros are necessarily going to do that, they have the right to be different.
And people don't believe me when I explain to them that megacorps are run by sociopaths...
We have standards like pipewire, xdg portals and wayland in active development that try to cover anything a desktop OS might need. Lately there has been a huge push towards them, as the standards they replaced weren't future proof at all.
But I take it that you are more concerned about fragmentation of these standards. I can almost guarantee that a lot if it will just whither away with time. Noone wants to maintain ancient protocols like X11 anymore. We might have another turbulent few years in this transition, but the end result will be worth it.
And I don't get what you mean with compatibility exactly. There are lots of ways to define that, and the Linux desktop is excellent in many of them. We have xwayland for legacy applications, loads of translation layers to bring together older graphics APIs under the main vulkan drivers, WINE to run windows software, etc. You're gonna have to be more specific there.
And why are they so shit in your opinion?
Linux runs people's cars, phones, routers, sometimes even fridges. And don't even get me started on servers. Linux is the most useful OS on the planet. The desktop is just another thing for it to conquer.
If you want strikes, you gotta talk about it more. The people on the other side pump out as much propaganda as they can.