QuadDamage

Agreed, it’s a bit of shame because I like the idea of GNOME but the execution and project priorities are just terrible.

LXQT is also good for people who want a Qt based enviroment but don’t like kwin.

*BSD is looking better and better.

Agreed in the long term, linux is becoming a mess imo.

Honestly not surprised, GNOME has been tying itself to systemD for years and this was inevtiable. Won’t be surprised if Void and other non-systemD distros take the same path.

Unfortunately Thiel’s ideas do have a solid chance at manifesting into reality, but in his case he wants to build entirely new cities rather than co-opt old ones (keep an eye on Trump’s “freedom cities” btw).

End result is probably going to turn coastal cities on the west coast into “autonomous republics” that are politically detached to the rest of the country.

IMO balkanization is inevitable but a clean cut “national divorce” is wishful thinking, it’s going to get messy but I could be wrong.

It would be faster, but note that eMMC is the worst kind of solid state drive out there and you should replace it as soon as possible, or at least don’t store anything critical on it.

Too little, too late.

Good point.

Just mentioned SystemD in another post of mine.

In the case of GNOME they take their whole toolkit with them. Obviously you can switch DEs but it’s still sad and annoying to see. From 5 years ago but still holds up: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/horrible-gtk3-gnome-ui-design-is-leaking-into-ubuntu-mate-applications-in-20-04/22028/58.

Obviously not blatant money/data harvesting like with big tech companies, but corporate strong-arming has been done on Linux (systemD) and can be done again. Granted it’s much harder on Linux (in the case of my SystemD example there are distros like Void or Artix) but there is still a risk imo.

Take with a grain of salt because the steam hardware survey has historically had sample size issues.

Very nice to see, only worry is that Linux will get enshittified (primarily by the GNOME people).

Raspberry Pis these days are overpriced, a cheaper mini PC/old Optiplex will do fine.