So let me get this straight, you are telling people that in order to deal with developer shortcomings they need to become micro-developers themselves. Fuck even spending time on the projects they were trying to get done or progress in the first place, get the fuck out lmao!!
> On some distros, eventually using Xorg will require compiling a Xorg DE from source, but that really isn't that hard.
The fact that you don't consider that this is batshit insane is commendable. This is peak Stockholm syndrome and 100% validates all my points in this thread...
Armstrong is still around lol? Yeah he's weird, I put him in the Jeff Cliff category of unique fedi personalities. Nobody will ever top Bot or Book (Eris) and the jewish guy that burnt down a girls dorm in NYC, Peter Wayland iirc, they win the unhinged fedi users awards 200x over.
TL:DR I don't hate Linux, I use it daily in some form or fashion I just don't like the direction and design choices its taking. We can only use Kernel 5.15 and a glacier distro for so long before we experience the pivot.
Hey I'm open to returning to Linux, I just have some issues detailed in the thread. Primarily being the inevitable massive time sink of getting the setup just right and functional only to have it get wrecked by updates and constant changes. I guess most if not all computer users experience this on some level.
My biggest thing with Windows is that it chooses maintenance during times I'm working and thats annoying. Like why are you doing a random malware check or update while I'm rendering or doing something important. If W11 has the ability to fine tune that I'm all ears on upgrading.
Also I caught it corrupting a disk that has important backups. I forced it to fix its own error but no lie, the drive was only connected to Windows for months and hasn't been unmounted often.
They keep wanting to reinvent the wheel, meanwhile software devs that might make Linux ports are going to be pushed away because Linux will never land on any standard it will always be a moving target.
Meanwhile Windows and Apple stay pretty consistent...
Also I was more ranting on the future of Linux (which I am worried about), Linux at one point was amazing and useful 100%. It's these modern design decisions like forced adoption of wayland and the pushing out of Russian, cis white men devs that I think is causing the OS to go backwards.
So the crux of the convo is desktop Linux and what are you accomplishing with it. So I'm coming more from a content creator perspective. Not gamer/webdev which is usually the haunting ground of Linux diehards. Remove wine and the web browser and what do you really have??