Reality check - eviltoast
    • Emerald@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      s/librebooted/canoebooted/

      it’s honestly quite strange. The Libreboot term has been known for years to refer to the fully free bios project. Then they merged osboot and Libreboot so now libreboot contains proprietary blobs. Then they decided to make a new project canoeboot, which is basically the new libreboot.

      so they went from having:

      • osboot
      • libreboot

      to having:

      • canoeboot
      • libreboot

      All they seemed to have done is confuse.

  • NationProtons@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 months ago

    Man, I wish there were more people around me who cared about discussing Linux and open source software. Only one person I know actually understands it, but he’s still running windows for games and programming.

  • TIMMAY@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    6 months ago

    Every day this sub is in the active feed and I could not be more removed from the intended audience lol

    • summerof69@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      21
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      This will continue until you’re part of the intended audience.

      spoiler

      Okay, it won’t stop even then.

    • NationProtons@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 months ago

      I’m running NixOs as a daily driver for a while now. It’s the first time I want to actively convince people to try out a distro. But then I realise most people around me would not want to bother learning how to configure it.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        Same. It’s very elegant. But yeah: the lacking documentation makes the learning curve way too steep for most people.

            • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              6 months ago

              Yeha, mistakes have been made but I guess those are understandable for the biggest distro. But that’s the past. We can always switch between distros when needed. Atm Ubuntu is fine.

        • foggy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 months ago

          Idk did you stan for 24.06 or are you still a reasonable person like “why that OS so big?”

          • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            6 months ago

            I honestly just want to enjoy Linux. If I’m concerned about what happens in every update, I won’t enjoy it.

            So I leave the worrying to other people. If something really bad happens that I need to know about, I’ll probably hear about it on these communities.

            “Ubuntu did this crazy thing!!!”

            Google -> how to disable this crazy thing?

            disables the crazy thing

            So far I haven’t been hacked (almost 7 years using it) or murdered by the phantom of the bloat. Everything works fine. The only issues I’ve had are Nvidia related. Fuck Nvidia.

            Ubuntu literally delivers the promise of a user friendly experience, which is what I want. I don’t want to obsess about the libraries or Init system my distro uses. I just want it to work. I’ll let other amazing minds to worry about the philosophy and technical aspects while I just cruise.

            I know I can relax thanks to other people who really worry and want everything to be perfect. I’m really grateful with them, I just don’t want to be them.

            • foggy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              6 months ago

              My concern when I see bloat is “what are you hiding?”

              And to me it represents the possibility that Ubuntu with Firefox is trying to make a marketable OS, which is just Windows with extra steps.

              But overall I hear you. I daily drive Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu Server 22.04, Debian 12.5 and Windows 11 (sigh)

              • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                6 months ago

                That’s exactly what Canonical is trying to do. They are trying to create a system with all the batteries included so people don’t need to worry about installing extra stuff, which means that of course they’ll have a bunch of bloat if you don’t use everything they offer, which is probably the case.

                Their end goal is to be able to push this to the masses and maybe one day be able to get compensation for their effort.

                I wouldn’t mind if Ubuntu becomes a Microsoft Windows-like product. If that’s what it takes to steal people from the claws of Microsoft, I’m OK with that. That would mean that hardware manufacturers will start developing specialized drivers for their hardware in Linux. To this day, in freaking 2024, I need to have a Windows image in order to configure my headset and mouse because developing the interfaces for Linux is pointless for these companies.

                We still have like 50 other distros we can use. Let Ubuntu be that bridge to bring more users to Linux.

                • foggy@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  6 months ago

                  I know it. Anyone who was alive in the 90s knows it.

                  But I usually get downvotes to hell because Firefox is the current best popular browser so fanboys gonna stan.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    6 months ago

    Wait, there’s someone here aware of hardened gentoo? Well I’ll be damned! Come out of the shadows, fellas!

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        6 months ago

        Excuse me, sir, it’s the Gentoo bits that are supposed to be hard, not yours.

        On an unrelated note - I’m building a binhost. Currently stuck on trying to figure out a way of building packages without instaling them and not using quickpkg>

  • Norgur@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    6 months ago

    Nah, that way, I can be the Alpha-Nerd in my circle, getting all the clout when I help them out with a command-line-command that contains awk.