Message from @Nimesprowler
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@Stefan Payne I recently just got into Linux. I’ve been doing some research to figure out the relationship between big tech and the Linux foundation. I’m trying to figure out what platforms we can access where we can stop giving big tech power within our lives. If you have any other information regarding this please share.
Well, on the one side you have Apple and Microsoft, on the other side you have Commies. Chose your poison..
@Stefan Payne Yeah the thing that made me less optimistic about Linux was guys like Richard Stallman and his connections to Richard Epstein. I feel like there are some libertarians that use Linux, not sure if you can say they’re all commies. With Microsoft and Apple these companies are directly in lockstep with the industry funding this cultural degeneracy while with Linux at least in theory it’s community driven development. I think we are giving our enemies less money using Linux than the alternatives but show I’m wrong if otherwise.
Well, its not. Linux is a commercial thing and the biggest Companies involved are for example Red Hat, they pay for the development.
And bookmark that, if its fixed, it tells a lot about Linux:
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7547-libusb_maintainer_fail
Richard Stallman (RMS) has little ties to linux really. He merely set the legal framework with the GPL and provided GNU tools through his free software foundation. RMS has always made a point to declare that Linux was seperate from his attempts of an GNU Operating System (which has it's own kernel called HURD). Often referring to linux disto's who use GNU as GNU/Linux, to keep his project separate from Linux.
Linux has eclipsed anything that RMS has ever attempted, and most of the popularity of his little autistic project GNU, has come straight from the success of other peoples projects, and efforts, like Linux. RMS has been irrelevant for decades.
@Stefan Payne Sadly the link does not work
that's why I said, "if its fixed" 😉
@Stefan Payne I mean there is RHEL for enterprise but most of the community from what I’m observing is driven by the free stuff. Linux powers lots of servers so having a solid code is the incentive to fund the Linux Foundation. As a result more development occurs to the Linux Kernel. I was just hoping the relationship was solely business and not this SJW nonsense but this week I was proven wrong.
What do you use out of curiosity?
Windows
I regularly try Linux from time to time but it always pisses me off with some stupid shit that either doesn't work or isn't implemented, that I always give up
it starts with such things like watching a video on Youtube
@Stefan Payne Currently there isn’t hardware accelerated video playback on any of the major browsers for Linux. There’s a patched version of chromium I think it only works with AMD drivers. Past some of the quirks I prefer the rest of the OS. At least in my use it’s more stable and requires less reboots than Windows. It also helps that the UI doesn’t look like it’s from the 90’s at least the setting menus.
The less reboots is bullshit
someone tested that.
after a patch you need to unload the patched libary and reload it.
Windows invented something insanely ingenious: the device manager.
Yeah the hardware accelerated video playback isn’t the move, and I never said that’s a solution. Just a workaround
just look at it and think about how AMAZING that is.
The argument for Linux is to implement it in the kernel
But I’m not an expert on this
The thing is: Linux is awesome for (headless) Server WOrkloads. And its strenth is the modularity and configurability....
but its weakpoint is usability, especially for end user and power user.
the Desktop Enviroments are just shit
For example when I place a dark theme on the system all the apps respond to it and don’t dick me around. Everything including the PDF reader responds to that. Also the system monitor in GNOME looks much more modern than task manager in windows. These are little things that annoyed me with windows that I find more consistent in windows. But I will agree for a non-tech savvy user it’s not the move under any circumstance. Requires a big time investment for a debatable return
Just think about the daskbar. WIndows 7 was released in 2009. It introduced the ability of starting a programm with Windows + Number. z.B. win + 3.
How many Desktop Enviroments support that? and how many are still on Windows 95 with IE4/98 Level?
get him Styx!!!
> Kids from ‘right-wing’ families must be re-educated: German govt.-backed brochure
where i live if you made this brochure, you would be beaten in public with rocks, stabbed, tied to a tree and burned
but hey optics amirite?
