Have you tried asking OpenClaw to get it to compile for you? /s

That sounds funny on paper but honestly I haven’t had either of those qualities in many desktops.

Gnome is my go to “get a solid desktop” quick choice. Whenever whatever experimental DE/WM I’m messing with can’t paint a window because it didn’t expect something, Gnome is always there.

Fedora was the first to get my NVidia Card and proprietary wifi card working out of the box without intervening. It also updates my Dell firmware out of the box. Debian, last time I checked, does not. I haven’t tried since before Bullseye.

Similar to Debian but tangentally, I run Guix which falls under the same GNU umbrella of what “free software” is and I have to break that with non-free channels to get the same laptop running.

Debian takes work, especially if you have tricky, proprietary hardware that requires firmware support. It comes with that magical “free software only” mentality that makes it harder to adopt and hence why Ubuntu and Mint exist. It’s a great minimalist distro

I sometimes forget that I’m not the only kind of user who may run a Linux box. I’m not immune to compromise, but I’m not an “average” user like say… Peggy from accounting.

Why is this a requirement? Commercial support?

You may run Fedora in WSL2. This is what I do. My work is largely command line based. Use Wezterm. If you must, launch GUI apps from there. I’m running graphical Emacs daily just fine this way. My coworkers don’t have half the gas for our kubernetes pods that I do and that’s by in large the fact that I refuse to lose my Linux chops

Just ask them why they want to waste the money on licensing. Money is the language managers understand

Yeah I don’t toxicity either it helps nobody. But if you would allow me to be a little vulgar, here’s a quick attempt to aggregate why the legal side of GPL has been important:

https://claude.ai/share/ad5124a7-ddad-4ec8-8b4f-d270242dcf56

Search engines take a bunch of time and I gotta keep parenting.

Also* it took decades for GNU/Linux to accrue enough momentum to get to a point where it is today: a commercially viable cloud powerhouse. It didn’t get here by letting anybody/everybody just do what they want with the software. These small flights accumulate to protect an entire ecosystem of beloved software, which is why many of us feel the need to use the only voice we have. I don’t think for sure that anybody wants to replace Linux with a permission version but the benefits for greedy corporations to see that happen is pretty clear. Especially when people are willing to start doing that for free

I think the biggest point you may be missing here is if you start re-writing GNU/Linux (which is what uutils is the first step in doing) with an MIT license, you start making reasons for commercial entities that contribute back out of obligation to stop supporting upstream free software. This is a no brainer to me. As to whether or not anybody should stop writing uutils, the answer is **obviously not. ** The license, however, is free game for scrutiny

I wrote this before I realized that you don’t actually care about the answer, you just want people to shut up about it, so sorry. If you want somebody to do the work you’ll have to do it yourself now. You’ve been given plenty of examples in this thread already

It’s not about any of us enjoying the license*, it’s about preserving the integrity of free software. It’s both flattering and disturbing that core utils is popular enough that people have decided to give them away to anyone who would want to take them without ever contributing back. If those people are found out there will be no legal recourse. Those Rust rewrites would inevitably be made proprietary without any credit for the authors.

It is a point of contention if the spirit of writing an anonymous report while saying any gosh dang thing you want about somebody is in the spirit of ending their career or whatever. DeVault decided it was necessary to shit things up as much as he could /after/ the FSF had made their decision because he and whoever decided that it wasn’t good enough for them.

Nope. I already don’t listen to Drew and moved my code and donations from Sourcehut to Codeberg. You can do the work of cross referencing his claims, if you’d like.

Its Drew DeVault. After his agressive and frankly unnecessary smear campaign of RMS where he took as much out of context as he could, and not being that much better himself (https://dmpwn.info/), I feel like any hot take the guy has needs to be taken with a grain of salt. If he doesn’t like something, he crusades.

You could also just use a USB drive or even a CDRW drive 🤓 Imagine a CD with dotfiles sharpied onto it like its 2001

Its doing the job of a code review alongside putting the program together. The parts the AI cannot get right need to be written yourself. AI really speeds up tedium for me but every line of code has to be read carefully. If the “vibe” is having to do the work anyway, then it’s vibe coding. I do like the speed boost I get for my 7 cents per query. It’s like I’m in my 30s without a kid again

This is why I’d just call it programming with AI tools and not “vibe coding”

Rust cannot help you if you disable the safety features, go figure.