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If that makes my thunderbird respect the startup position, I’ll be so happy…

“Hmmm… testing branch. Sounds like the branch for me.”

Flutter

BSOD: the Blue Slurpee of Death

Fedora?

Yah, you’ll want a thick skin around this group and don’t get herded into groupthink, but you seem to have that covered already.

There are places to look for help if you need it (I’m happy to take DMs) but unfortunately I’d have to recommend reddit/r/linuxquestions as probably the most welcoming. While the ArchWiki is a great source of information, stay far away from the Arch forums unless you’re wearing blast armor. Format a question the wrong way and you’ll get fragged. I’d say the Debian forums are probably the easiest to get along with, it seems populated with adults.

Finally, someone that actually RTFA.

The systemd fiasco really tore the heart out of my respect for the Linux community, especially the one right here. One asshole out there pretty much doxxing an opensource developer for putting a field in the same PII area as address and phone number, and the rest of the assholes were looking to crucify the guy instead of shaming the doxxer for it. And nobody (well, few people) saw what was wrong with that.

And then, yes, the init wars, and shitting on devs for their choices about packaging, and shitting on them for not liking how they run their project, for using AI, and and and.

The downvotes on this comment garnered tells me it hit a nerve, and that’s why I posted it. I don’t expect anyone to actually take it to heart and change, but when I was pushing back here against the pitchfork mob over the age verification thing, I hoped for a better response. Typical, as the linux community likes to shoot the messenger.

In the end, driving people away from desktop Linux works in our favor, because it puts off the day that Linux enshittifies. So I can’t be too upset.

I thought it was quite eloquent. The downvotes tell me it hit a nerve, and as another commenter says, the recent “field added in systemd so let’s hang someone” fiasco lines up.

You would figure that most developers would just work on the platform that gives them the tools to do what they do most easily. Yet the amount that won’t use Linux and instead seemingly cripple themselves by developing on Mac or Windows frankly astounds me. But I’m also very used to Linux’ pain points, having used it since the 90s. If I only every got my software with an .exe or .dmg download, I’d probably shy away as well.

I couldn’t imagine working with Docker Desktop or WSL, or depending on Brew to have everything I need, but that’s the reality for many, because it’s familiar and simple. The underlying operating system is abstracted away so they don’t have to deal with it, and sticking their nose in Linux is scary and confusing, especially if you’re expected to deal with the panoply of installation methods available to your software. When I dealt with Windows in the long-long ago, you built a MSinstaller package and went on your merry way.

And if you look at new developers today, do you think they’d put up with RBBS for a minute if that’s how they got their software out?

A: It’s not my blog

B: The author’s point was that Flatpak solves a lot of pain points for developers on Linux with distribution that Appimage doesn’t, and package managers certainly don’t, and that if there’s going to be companies like Valve and Redhat that are going all-in on that method, it would benefit the Linux ecosystem that’s currently driving away developers in droves with fragmentation to consider that.

Personally I like Appimage for just being able to grab a file and run it, and I integrate Gear Lever updates by building my own repackaging infra to keep projects that use it updating via Gear Lever’s Update All button. But I can completely commiserate with the idea that it isn’t very useful for most users to have to come up with things like that themselves when Flatpak is easily integrated with Discover and other packagekit software updaters.

Who was Lesb?

And if you’re in a larger company, you’re the guy or team that gets blamed for every. goddamn. network. problem. that happens after the transition.

Fuck that.

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If this is maintained in 90 days I’ll eat a bug.

“They’re doing activism.”

Holy lolling fuck. That’s activism now.

There’s a bunch of idiots looking to crucify someone over this. This fucking witchhunt bullshit is really shaking my faith in the basic goodness of the Linux community. Trying to make some dev that put a line of code in systemd into a pariah isn’t a good look for opensource.

Edit: 4 fuckwits and counting that don’t have the courage to show their usernames by telling me why I’m wrong to despise pitchfork mobs.

This is doxxing of a guy that submitted a completely benign, if pointless, PR.

Delete this.

That’s the point.

now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI

Ok, Kent.