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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 20:42:53 JST Aral Balkan

   I’m sorry folks but I’m going to remove Windows support from Kitten¹.

   It’s been a long time coming (read what’s in the Windows tab of the current installation section – https://kitten.small-web.org/#get-started – if you want a longer rant) and I simply refuse to even test under that horribly hostile operating system. I don’t want anything to do with it and nor will I pay Microsoft a single Euro cent for the pleasure of having its AI and surveillance shoved down my throat so I can support that shitty platform with my work.

   Windows has absolutely nothing going for it. Want a proper proprietary OS that isn’t shit? Use macOS. Want a proper free and open OS? Use some modern flavour of Linux. There’s no reason to use a proprietary OS that exploits you while having all the usability of a Linux desktop from ten years ago.

   (The only valid use case I can see for Windows is if you’re forced to use it by your employer. And that’s why I’ve supported it so far – and then only under WSL, which has its own issues, making the Windows experience sub-par to the macOS and Linux experience anyway.)

   I’m only one dev and this move will simplify the codebase further (always a good thing) and free up cycles that can be used to better test/support Kitten on a wider range of Linux distributions.

   :kitten:💕

   ¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #Microsoft #Windows #BigTech #surveillanceCapitalism

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 20:44:17 JST Rich Felker

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     @aral This is the way. You can still run it on Windows if you really want using WSL1, WSL2, cygwin, or midipix. No need to include explicit support for the intentionally broken MSVC ecosystem.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:48:31 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Parrot33113

     @Parrot33113 Not a problem. Use Linux then. No one is forcing you to use it :)

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     Parrot33113 (parrot33113@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:48:32 JST Parrot33113

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     @aral
     I am not very sure that macOS is not also a complete shit with a nice look.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 00:07:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Parrot33113

     @Parrot33113 👍

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     Parrot33113 (parrot33113@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 00:07:15 JST Parrot33113

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     @aral
     That's exactly what I do :)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 01:57:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     Right, I just removed Windows support from Kitten.

     https://kitten.small-web.org

     I swept the WSL 2 installation instructions to the end of the reference section (since they already exist and if someone does want to run it under WSL, I don’t want to make their life any harder than it already is) but if something doesn’t work under Windows/WSL 2, please don’t open an issue as Windows is not supported.

     (Kitten is supported on Linux and macOS.)

     #Kitten #Windows #SmallTech #SmallWeb #web #dev

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 02:39:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • thethuthinnang ⁂

     @photovotary *takes a bow* :)

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     thethuthinnang ⁂ (photovotary@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 02:39:17 JST thethuthinnang ⁂

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     @aral I thoroughly enjoyed the FAQs. 😂