I know people who’ve driven drunk for more than a decade, and only crashed when they were sober. Does that mean drinking and driving is safe?

I literally had one of my devices fail to boot after an update pretty much every month, and another a few times a year. Sure, I was able to fix it with only arch-chroot, but when I switched to btrfs I didn’t need to carry around a flash drive with me when updating the system…

The last few years I’m on nixos, and while it sometimes fails to update, it has not once failed to boot.

I always imagine a newb OS called Nubian

You mean an African distro?

Alternatively, the first wave of malware stole the accounts of actual contributors. The same method was used in npm afaik.

Because the nature of FOSS makes it REALLY difficult to take away either.

RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu pro… FOSS and GPL have nothing to do with the price of the product

As I said, they tried it at the height of their power and failed. I find it far more likely that winblows becomes a Linux distro. It fits their EEE motto a lot better.

And what’s that going to accomplish? The steam client isn’t magically improving performance, their kernel patches are.

Some bullshit to do with vibe coding a copy, then make some important new feature and patent that.

You think Microslop can vibe code an OS that’s competitive with Linux?

How do you imagine they patent a fork of Linux?

They already tried patent trolling for over a decade before they gave up… (Look up “Microsoft Novell-Suse patent trolling”)

https://manjarno.pages.dev/

But it wasn’t updated for the expiry in 2026, 2025, 2024, etc.

Do you have any snaps installed? Each one slows down your boot time because every snap is virtually mounted on boot.

You think you don’t have any snaps? Ubuntu hijacks apt commands to install snaps.

You removed snaps completely from your system to avoid that? Ubuntu reinstalls it after an update.

And that’s besides the fact you’re trusting a closed source app store that’s managed by scum who sold user data to Amazon. They can literally add whatever spyware they want to FOSS and you won’t know it. And considering how many people accused them of illegally harvesting data through Azure Ubuntu images…

What am I doing wrong here?

Ubuntu on a desktop

So use an external PM like flatpak or nix

A distro that had such great ideas in the past like including Amazon ads inside the desktop or silently symlinking apt commands to snap have to do a better job to regain community trust, instead they reject efforts like Flatpak or AppImage and build partial closed-source.

Don’t forget outright selling user data to amazon, the fact that each snap slows down boot times, or the various claims that they’re illegally harvesting user data through Azure Ubuntu images to send promotional material.

The only community they care about are the micro soft execs…

Girl is her name, her gender is hacker, her pronouns are death to MATA

As far as I’m aware, fedora is a public project and not a org that is “owned” by anyone.

Yeah, RH only owns the fedora trademark, provides the infrastructure, pays for the salaries, and is the biggest funder of the org by far. It’s totally independent…

You’ve got to do a great bit of mental gymnastics to arrive at your conclusion just to try and make me feel stupid. Why?

If you feel stupid for not knowing basic information that’s your issue.

Also don’t act like there aren’t serious implications of imposing age checks in supposedly free libre software. Libre software should be a fundamental human right. You can believe in that and also that military interventionism is also bad.

Do remind me why you made this post? You can act virtue signal all you want, the fact is that you’re morally outraged about only one of those things. And since you’re this butthurt, I’m guessing my comment making fun of it really hit the spot.

I will not use a distribution that complies with this law because I believe it is morally compromised.

RH owning Fedora and funding it by making the American army more efficient at killing civilians - perfectly fine

Fedora will probably comply with the equivalent of a teen setting their age to 130 to watch porn - morally compromised

I’d be more worried about literally upstream bug testing for the DoD…

Do you exclusively use cp/mv instead of a gui/tui file manager?

Agent-shell…

You’re welcome!

Did you also know that arch is used for the popular gaming platform - the steamdeck?

On the other hand nixos is used in the corporate environment, and is too complex for children to set up.

Arch yes, nix no. It’s about the age of the user base, not the age of the distro. Arch is popular with gamer children, and completely unsuited for any professional use, while nixos is the complete opposite.

And you wouldn’t guess it, but both of those are older than ubuntu and fedora.