Note that DistroWatch is not the only one affected by ban on FOSS related article links on FB.
Further read: https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/
They’re trying to kill counterculture. Pixelfed is also banned at meta’s servers.
I have a suspicion that this isn’t even about culture or revenue anymore. It’s about control.
They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro
As someone who originally fell for that trick, bless them. I’ve since learned how to do it right and became a dirty distrohopper.
Either that or some Linux wizard cast the “every time you get your distro perfectly set up and stable you get bored and install another one” curse on me.
I take the approach of settling into a distro then getting bored and messing with stuff I shouldn’t (at least on a daily driver) and reinstalling out of necessity, sometimes changing distros as well.
Smashing something with a club and and sifting through the pieces to find out why it broke is the best way to learn. Its literally primal human instinct.
