What do you mean by poor long term stability? It’s a rolling release. I run the same installation for basically forever, while fixed releases’ life-time is measured in just a few years before you lose support and need to do a full distro upgrade… which rarely seems to work without problems.
PS: I just looked it up. The first date in my pacman log in from 2014…
But why is this thing wasting so much electricity on my side with black text on bright white background?
That’s not wrong but a seperate problem mainly caused by lock-in strategies that are not exactly the same as marketshare or industry standards and are explicitly distinct from the actual OS’s capabilties.
I know enough people who have the exact same problem but with Apple as their employer forces them to use software only available there. Yet their marketshare for desktops is just a tiny fraction of what we see for Windows (~15% if we are optimsitic).
So will we pretend that Linux with a 10 or 15% marketshare (not that far off for an OS with already 5+%) is suddenly a valid alternative. Or are we honest and acknowledge that this is indeed NOT about Linux’ capability to be a valid Windows replacement but purely about the fact that there isn’t (an never will be…) a massive corporation spending billions in marketing and lobbying to create perceived standards simply by throwing money at the problem for even higher future gains?
But what will I do if marketshare of Linux does not increase properly? Oh, wait… who cares? I just use Linux for my daily work but are not a shareholder that needs constant massive growth of imaginary numbers.
by factor of 3 obviously…
Nazis are only pro-power. Everything else is just a means to an end.
They don’t actually care who they are advocating against. There is only one constant: They are the ones at the top, destined to rule, and the masses need to be controlled by pitting them against some “enemy”. That enemy is always replaceable because it needs to be replaced every time they accidently “solve” a problem or need a change of narrative.
Did an AI write these bullshit ramblings just parroting PR fluff texts provided by those distros?
This is just a theory but maybe worth a thought:
Could it be possible that acceptance in a certain community up to the point where it’s just a non-issue that is totally separated from what the community does, bring a lot of people to the public view that exist everywhere else, too, just not that openly?
There was in fact some minor friction on IT events some years ago where people objected to stuff partly looking more like a pride event. Yet the majority didn’t care and there was barely any active pushback. And so it normalised very quickly and now it is just how it is. In my personal view at least for the benefit of all involved.
Apparently this is about neither DRM
It’s not about the DRM people think about… but the Direct Rendering Manager
UEFI standard requires support for FAT and then can implement other file systems for the EFI System Partition.
But no vendor actually implements any with the exception of those forced to include APFS by Apple. So FAT is the de facto standard for all ESPs for years.
Sounds like every perfectly normal load-bearing wall I have ever seen…
Yet sometimes the only reasonable guess is that they coded in undocumented brainfuck.
Yes, I read the article (that’s were my “number of lines” come from…). But does including this in the article make a shitty article any better?
It’s basically “Linux kernel hits record low” (also the title) followed by “but by other metrics it looks different” and then… nothing. No actual analysis, no context. Just randomly presenting numbers (and even admitting their headline metric isn’t worth much) and pretending that’s an article.
That’s stupidly lazy…
Because “number of commits” is such a relevant metric (for reference 85% of the commits resulted in 110% of added lines compared to 2023).
Are people too lazy to talk about actual features and stuff added, so they compare some arbitrary number because that’s a stat easily pulled from the data?
PS: Nice to see the comments talking about “woke” developers… Guess the culture war brain rot really spreads everywhere 🤮
But then developers refuse to support that. With missing kernel-level stuff just being an excuse for being intentionally Linux-hostile…
Which are barely more than a first step as they are just the bare minimum with everything else being proprietary and pushed to userspace.
That’s a build-in sudo feature, set by Defaults insults in your sudoers file.
Don’t we all know that guy, who is rather stupid and useless but at least has proper standards?
Removed by mod
You forgot the one that is still compiling…