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   Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:41:42 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm
   I HATE SYSTEMD I HATE SYSTEMD
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:41:40 JST Pawslut420

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     @maid at this point what is the reason to not buy a macbook if the same linux people who were like "WE'RE GONNA KICK MICROSOFTS ASS" and "FREE ASSANGE" and "AARON SWARTZ DID NOTHING WRONG" will roll over under pressure?

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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:41:41 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     I wish Lennart Poettering a very go-drink-bleach-immediately.
     
     I don't want you shoehorning your disregard for the Unix philosophy into every major distro as an excuse to shove your bloated ass flatpaks up my unlubed asshole.
     
     @claude review
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:42:54 JST prettygood

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     @sendpaws @maid never bet against x86
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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:42:55 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     @sendpaws any remaining sense of personal dignity
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:42:55 JST Pawslut420

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     @maid idk man, all the unix boomers back in the day who wanked off to the idea that a RISC/UNIX box would finally be mainstream were busting hot loads when the M1 hit.

     SGI, Sun, IBM, HP, and DEC couldn't do it...

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:43:16 JST djsumdog

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     I can modify my Linux distro (for now anyway) ... also the UI isn't fucking garbage, the storage is upgradable and any number of other reasons.
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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 07:45:50 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     The ideal solution to age verification is to make consumer devices hyperretarded with VTech-esque toy UIs and dedicate "real computers" to autists who can passionately explain the history of DEC of Maynard, MA and 7 hours straight.
     
     (Alternatively, I'll accept anyone who can even vaguely get the answer right when asked "what is a PDP-11?" without Google/Kagi.)
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     KaiserKitty (kaiserkitty@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:32:07 JST KaiserKitty

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     @sendpaws @maid every Unix boomer I know has a Mac and a BSD thinkpad lol
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:32:18 JST Pawslut420

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     @prettygood @maid ARM is still kosher

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:32:18 JST prettygood

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     @sendpaws @maid I wanna be clear I'm actively rooting against ARM here, the company not the architecture. Apple's chips are alright though.
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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:47:06 JST Thomas Magnum

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     Given the nature of modern battery-driven computing, ARM makes sense for most non-intensive cases and even many of those. But the company is still gay
     
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:47:39 JST prettygood

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     @Leyonhjelm @sendpaws @maid agreed on both accounts. That's why I want the company to eat shit.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:57:13 JST Hoss Delgado

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     This is why you should be allowed to tell people to kill themselves on shithub.
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     vic (vic@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:58:37 JST vic

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     oh nice I might actually make the switch to Gentoo or Devuan now

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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:59:13 JST Hoss Delgado

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     >People are angry, lock the replies!
     :marseysoycry:
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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:59:14 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     @vic I gotta stop reading this shit or I'm just gonna get heated again. These "people" are pathetic and disgusting.
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     vic (vic@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:59:15 JST vic

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     Look at this discussion: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

     These people are soulless robots.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 20:07:59 JST 翠星石

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     @maid Don't use systemd then.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:45:46 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @newt @phnt @sendpaws @maid
     > I very much doubt Linux will ever have a way to verify the date
     
     -Computer have hardware level DRM, ME/PSP/TrustZones etc...
     -Computer won't start if the OS isn't signed by a trust party you don't control.
     -Computer requires mandatory internet connection to boot.
     -No more local accounts, online only.
     -Your account is linked to your irl ID.
     -You can't browser common websites/.gov site as web DRM will check if your OS is signed.
     
     This is already planned as it's progressively enforced more and more.
     -Hardware is already full of DRM
     -MS has mandatory online account
     -Computer phones furthered this behavior via "stores"/repositories.
     -Web DRM is slowly being used, youtube tries so often to push it on various part of the population, yandex too, various websites in general
     -Current laws are being pushed and code is being integrated for ID/age check.
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:45:48 JST :suya:

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     @phnt @sendpaws @maid if most user apps are gonna interface with a kind of desktop portal, then there's still just one place.
     
     Then again, I very much doubt Linux will ever have a way to verify the date I enter, so I can just put whatever I want there.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:45:49 JST Phantasm

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     @newt @sendpaws @maid
     >because in linux you can patch this shit out.
     Watch this get integrated deep down in GNOME/KDE so you can't easily patch it out in two places (systemd and one place in the DE).
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:45:50 JST :suya:

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     @sendpaws @maid because in linux you can patch this shit out.
     
     Then again, so can you with windows. It just would be harder.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:46:07 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @newt @phnt @sendpaws @maid
     Yes. But again as I stated in another post, a few hundred people doing X negative thing isn't an issue for a nation, have 50%+ of a population doing X negative thing creates instability for a nation.
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:46:09 JST :suya:

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     @mangeurdenuage @phnt @sendpaws @maid
     >MS has mandatory online account
     
     literally skill issue
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:47:43 JST 翠星石

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     @mangeurdenuage @phnt @sendpaws @maid @newt Even just a few dozen people doing a terrible thing can have a massive impact on the world.
     
     Popular proprietary programs written by only a few dozen people have done a lot of damage.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:49:58 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @sendpaws @phnt @maid @newt
     >not even Apple does this yet.
     You can't install software on IOS without jailbreaking it, you need to create an apple account.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:49:58 JST 翠星石

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     @mangeurdenuage @phnt @sendpaws @maid @newt You can't even install software on iOS by default with an apple account, as their shitty software is so broken that the cr...app store seriously crashes on installing software if you don't click on an option menu in 1 second and of course it automatically reloads without printing an error too.
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 00:49:59 JST Pawslut420

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     @newt @phnt @maid @mangeurdenuage they keep blocking bypasses and want to make it impossible, not even Apple does this yet.

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 04:26:53 JST Phantasm

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     >This clearly got linked somewhere, so let's lock it
     Lol, literally the same reaction and justification when he got mad that people were voicing their frustration in the home wiping issue.
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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 04:26:53 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     @phnt @vic we don't express personal outrage in germany

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     Regular 🇩🇪 (silas@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:43:08 JST Regular 🇩🇪

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     @maid better being master race than a fucking retard.

     Although I am for just calmly and normally responding to bullshit from shitposter world

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:43:08 JST Phantasm

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     @silas @maid
     >master race
     60-minutes-german-free-speech.mp4
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     Regular 🇩🇪 (silas@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:43:09 JST Regular 🇩🇪

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     @maid yea because you definitely look at the source code of every package you install and determine if it has had any ai assistance or vibecoding done to it. I’m sure.

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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:43:09 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     @silas you're german lmao
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     Regular 🇩🇪 (silas@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:43:10 JST Regular 🇩🇪

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     @maid understandable but you are also an idiot. Unix philosophy is not a good design paradigm for 2026. Running ai generated apps or apps that regularly get injected with some malware virus shit, without sandboxing and permissions system is pretty shitty.
     It also helps with lazy or mediocre devs unable to ship things that work with several versions of dependencies. Everything needs that one specific chrome and one specific nodejs version to run or whatever it is.

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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 06:43:10 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     @silas
     >apps
     >ai generated anything
     lmao you're a joke of a human being aintcha
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 06:09:35 JST 

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     @sendpaws @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt @phnt Also apparently this is that "advanced flow" jewgle was talking about. I swear even chinkphones have less complicated restrictions on bootloader unlocks.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 06:09:36 JST 

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     @sendpaws @phnt @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt Which apparently doesn't work without gapps and as far as I know doesn't even get the benefit of blue bubble for itoddlers.
     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: repeated this.
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 06:09:37 JST Pawslut420

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     @phnt @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt even SMS around here is being replaced with RCS.

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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 06:09:38 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @sendpaws @phnt @maid @newt He could have bought a 30$ brick for phone that instead.
     Normies and money management is fascinating.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 06:09:38 JST Phantasm

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     @mangeurdenuage @sendpaws @maid @newt Buy a brick phone that can only do calls and sms, the most insecure ways of communications...

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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 06:09:39 JST Pawslut420

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     @mangeurdenuage @phnt @maid @newt My cousin who is normie literally used his iPhone for a while without making an account even though he couldn't do facetime, at least calling and texting and browsing the web worked. Never underestimate the craftiness of a normie.

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:04:22 JST Phantasm

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     @dps910 @bonkmaykr @sendpaws @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt KDE also had some takes, but nobody cared. Well, except Lunduke himself.
     lunduke-sailor-spinach-woke.png
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     david (dps910@social.freedombits.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:04:23 JST david

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     @phnt @bonkmaykr @sendpaws @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt gnome could make a good desktop if they stop caring about drama. I havnt seen KDE making any rant blog posts about Lunduke or xlibre lol
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:04:24 JST Phantasm

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     @dps910 @bonkmaykr @sendpaws @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt Gnome has cult mentality. Whatever :ebussy: thinks, everybody must think.
     
     https://archive.md/zie0l
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:04:26 JST Phantasm

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     @bonkmaykr @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt @sendpaws
     
     >And those people are at the whims of Wayland devs. Any time some lunatic can decide to delete X11 support from mesa and it's not like anyone from the small community will be able to maintain that. Any time GNOME devs can decide that the next GTK version will be Wayland only and you aren't maintaining that heap of garbage either.
     
     Looks like that is exactly what is happening: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/8060
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     david (dps910@social.freedombits.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:04:26 JST david

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     @phnt @bonkmaykr @sendpaws @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt weird how they are obsessed with not using X11 and think anyone who uses X11 is a fascist, like XLibre
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:04:27 JST Phantasm

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     @bonkmaykr @sendpaws @maid @mangeurdenuage @newt
     
     >No, sorry. I agree that appealing to computer illiterate users is detrimental when taken too far, but I do not think this is an excuse to deny the general population encouragement to free themselves.
     
     We agree on this. My point wasn't that bringing more people will be bad, it was that if you bring more people in the current state, it will be bad.
     
     >When they enshittify it as they've already been doing, it will be harder for the RedHat/Microsoft cult to maintain an iron grip like what Windows allows.
     
     Red Hat is already almost the only reason why Linux desktop is currently even working, but also almost the only reason why it sucks. When you look at almost any major project, they are maintaining it or involved in it. GCC is maintained mostly by Red Hat, glibc's maintainer is from Red Hat, Red Hat is also involved in iconv and coreutils. And that's just GNU projects. You then look at FreeDesktop projects and it's even more Red Hat. Mesa is quite a lot of Red Hat along with GPU companies, NetworkManager is almost exclusively Red Hat, GNOME is heavily sponsored by Red Hat. Point is, IBM can decide to kill Linux at any moment, if they wish to via Red Hat as a proxy. They are already the only absolute foundation of the whole "ecosystem".
     
     But they are also by proxy the reason why Linux sucks. Wayland always was heavily pushed by Red Hat along with it's stupid sandboxing, portals and all that other crap that never works properly. Flatpak is heavily pushed by GNOME, ie. Red Hat.
     
     >Just look at what happened to XOrg. Still not dead, infact people are more vocally against Wayland's creeping now than ever.
     
     And those people are at the whims of Wayland devs. Any time some lunatic can decide to delete X11 support from mesa and it's not like anyone from the small community will be able to maintain that. Any time GNOME devs can decide that the next GTK version will be Wayland only and you aren't maintaining that heap of garbage either.
     
     >The correct response is to bring new users over but inform them of the better options they have, that individual choice does not have to be scary and user friendliness does not mean mimicking a cell phone.
     
     Do you know what the only correct way to convert someone to Linux is?
     
     

     1. Be a normie
     2. Only use a word processor and a web browser
     3. Have someone that can be tech support at all times
     4. Have someone deep into Linux install and configure Mint for you
     5. Never, ever, visit any Linux-related forum or ask for help online

     And I don't mean the last point lightly. The Linux community is one of the most annoying, smug and condescending communities you can find at all. The moment someone that is clueless about an issue asks for help online, it is over. GNU/Tards are especially bad, considering they've made it their life goal to be as annoying as possible to every possible and existing Linux user. They are the biggest blight in this community, which is why I think they need to go away as quickly as possible. One of the very long list of reasons why I react to their posts the way I do.
     
     Also on the point of user-friendliness and why things worked better 10-15 years ago. 10 years ago, a user had an operating system, one package manager, one theme, one way to install applications. Today a user has to think about Flatpaks, Snaps, AppImages, their OS package manager; whether they use PulseAudio or Pipewire (both break in different ways at random); whether they are using Wayland or not (Wayland is still broken in unique ways); whether they are running apps sandboxed without knowing, eg. Flatpaks/Snaps (apps randomly break, files the user wants to interact with aren't always visible due to sandboxing, apps don't usually respect system theme at all,...); what even is a portal and why doesn't it work,...
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:04:28 JST Phantasm

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     @bonkmaykr @newt @sendpaws @maid @mangeurdenuage And getting normies into the Linux world will be a disaster. Look already how in the name of "user friendliness", developers destroyed things that worked fine for years. Things literally worked better 10 years ago when almost nobody cares about "user friendliness".

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     @phnt@fluffytail.org @sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party @maid@shitposter.world @mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world @newt@stereophonic.space No, sorry. I agree that appealing to computer illiterate users is detrimental when taken too far, but I do not think this is an excuse to deny the general population encouragement to free themselves. They are better here than there. We have more control over the Linux experience as end users. When they enshittify it as they've already been doing, it will be harder for the RedHat/Microsoft cult to maintain an iron grip like what Windows allows. We still lose the ecosystem, but we make any "muh user friendly" numbing unenforceable and create a gateway for freedom to seep back in when people get tired again. Just look at what happened to XOrg. Still not dead, infact people are more vocally against Wayland's creeping now than ever.
     
     Plus, GNOME design elitists and similar are blind to their users regardless. It doesn't matter how many new users turn over or not because they are going to keep pretending they are at the forefront of "user friendly Linux" since it is a power fantasy for them. The correct response is to bring new users over but inform them of the better options they have, that individual choice does not have to be scary and user friendliness does not mean mimicking a cell phone. People who want to turn us back into passive consumers are not going to stop at "there are no users" because they're out of touch and see enthusiasts as potential conversion anyway (that or they call us all fascists, because when politics are involved that is considered a "win" in their book).
     
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     • Phantasm
     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     • Pawslut420
     You're still using Windows, you have not fixed the problem if you are still allowing a proprietary Microsoft program to control your computer. "Bypassing" the account requirement does not actually bypass jack shit and this is not an excuse.
     
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     • Phantasm
     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     • Pawslut420
     @sendpaws @phnt @maid @mangeurdenuage what do you mean "keep blocking"? Did Steve Ballmer steal your rig while wearing a sweaty thong and shouting "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!"? Because you can totally use an older working ISO for an enterprise Windows version and block it from ever accessing MS servers.