@BrodieOnLinux we.... We did it... I can smell the year of the Linux Desktop already

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online congratulations

@BrodieOnLinux #nice

@BrodieOnLinux :catJAM:

@BrodieOnLinux Then it seems like some Wayland folks should want to be on the board. And maybe they could work on a rebrand

@BrodieOnLinux maybe they should rebrand to the freedesktop foundation. Or does that exist already?

@BrodieOnLinux I'm on Linux 6.2.0-26.

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*American patriotic crab noises*

@BrodieOnLinux I mean I can understand the "if your good at something never do it for free" sentiment. But like come on, a DE is not a strong selling point. And there is so much more that's wrong with that post I wouldn't be able to fit it all here.

And what a weird thing to say on a Linux news forum or all places.

@BrodieOnLinux don't tell them about Cinnamon... Or Budgie... Their brain would probably have kernel panic, knowing COSMIC is not the first "in house" built DE, that is being shared with whole Linux community...

@BrodieOnLinux I can only hope this was sarcasm - what has the world come to 🗿?

@BrodieOnLinux I'm working on an immutable Gentoo distro known as Xenia Linux if you are interested!

@BrodieOnLinux I strongly disagree with the fact that Fedi should become mainstream.

Remember that twitter users came to it, and the overall quality of it plumetted until most of them returned to twitter.

Fedi should remain a niche, and should remain entirely community driven without any profit motivation. Any company-backed platform trying to get into it should be blocked on sight on principle alone.

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Not an instance admin but moved to an instance that blocks threads.net. You don't mention my personal reason. I am not willing to contribute with my content to metas commercial app.
Funny that threads makes federation opt-in but mastodon doesn't. At least pixelfeed offers opt-in now.

@BrodieOnLinux I agree with your take in this video, brodie :neofox_amogus:​

@BrodieOnLinux Good for those whose cards it supports 😁

@BrodieOnLinux too little, too late. nvidia will never get my money again.

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I'm definitely someone who will benefit from this, as someone using an nvidia gpu.

In the future I can imagine people alternating which drivers they using depending on the game. Projects like supergfxctl could be helpful in such a use case. Already today most game launchers have a lot of tweaks you can do on a per game basis.

@BrodieOnLinux Its sad, I was really hopeful about it being an actually good Chromium browser to use as a backup when a site doesn't like Firefox. Chrome and Edge are obviously bad choices, Chromium has no DRM or security patches, Ungoogled Chromium is somehow worse security wise (not to mention the risks with their community built binaries), Brave is covered in controversy, Vivaldi isn't actually open source, etc etc etc.

Not a single good option, which is why I hoped Thorium would grow

@BrodieOnLinux something always felt sketchy about thorium and its developer

@BrodieOnLinux People really out here going through a 30 paragraph essay about how to use steamcmd to not go to windows 10 but then say that they wont move to Linux because "i dont want to use the terminal".

@BrodieOnLinux After couple minutes of browsing the subreddits for windows 7 I still wonder why people want to use out of date and unsupported software as a daily driver.

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online forget Windows 7, the local bakery here uses MS-DOS as a POS system ​:mario_flop:​
(although as a bonus the old lady who runs the cashier looks like a seasoned hackerman now she types at like 200 wpm now)

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online and both are right.

@BrodieOnLinux I've literally been in meetings where a project manager or client described *required* features.

@BrodieOnLinux this new stories encapsulates a few bad things in open source

1. phone software sucks - not many good options for apps/OS
2. open source projects need good business models
3. donate to software you love until #2 is fixed

@BrodieOnLinux I do not know why the maintainer saw the need to sell. Maybe the money was direly needed and those were the terms of the contract that was offered?

Yes, this could have been handled better in an ideal world, but not knowing the situation the person is in: I do not feel comfortable to judge.

maybe we would see less of this if we had a financially viable support model for maintainers? Not that I have any idea how that would look like.

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Wait, what apps?