Just a dude on the internet, looking for content and fun! I love Linux, gaming, writing, reading, music, anime, walks, and occasionally movies too. Chronically ill and anxious too, that makes life quite interesting...At times.
Yeah, tribalism does happen in a lot of tech related spaces in addition to anywhere else in life. I think that GNOME devs and System76 will remain separate FOSS tribes that can never know peace between them. In a lot of cases, I feel that System76 started the hostility. However, GNOME seems fairly entrenched in their own ideas. I don't find GNOME bad by any means, it's just a REALLY opinionated DE that I can tolerate in little doses. I much prefer KDE for the flexibility it grants without installing a lot of extensions.
Sure, buddy, all the love for CCP, Vladimir Putin, Mao Zedong is slander...HexBear is basically lemmy.ml with a mask on. That has a similar issue of somewhat sane topic based communities with all the Authoritarian bootlicking in different places. The second you slander any of these revered authoritarian bully in their subs (usually in relevant places like news), you're reported and face banning.
When the people are pissed to the point of no return, I'm mad and ready to break a computer that has AI installed on it. The billionaires couldn't hope to stop millions upon millions of angry people from breaking their resource hogging and slop making tools.
I'd rather know that someone has a gun on them, I'd rather them ban concealed carry. Guns generally give me the heebie-jeebies, I prefer to know who to avoid in public situations and make sure to keep out of my life.
LMAO Welp, you better stop making AI Slop then...As AI Slop is the most relevant and fitting term for the products of plagiarism engines known as "AI". That reduces real art into garbage that says nothing more than, "I didn't care enough to create a work of art, so don't look at this bullshit I post online or display in person.".
The fact this came from hexbear.net immediately raises some mental alarms in my head. So, before forming an opinion on this matter...I read the GNOME blog post and processed the presented information before deciding: hexshitpost or no. I found the blog post to ultimately be built on a strong foundation of knowledge/sources; written in a neutral and non-combative tone that calls out System76 without being incendiary or unnecessarily cruel. The case being lain out about System76's many incidents of spreading harmful misinformation about GNOME makes me understand why GNOME is somewhat hated these days by some Linux users...
It's curious that instead of polishing COSMIC before pushing it out in the world, they released a broken version of what should've been something cool! I agree, perhaps working with GNOME and KDE would've been better if System76 wasn't going to meaningfully invest in COSMIC's stability before release. I'm sure they'll fix it in post launch updates. From my brief experience with COSMIC, it did have the bones for a good DE, however, the polish was lacking. It made me sad and switch to Bazzite.
I've been reading about the problems that Windows 11 has had for years, from the safety of being on Linux for good after Recall was announced (and floundered like a fish out of water). I missed how just about any Linux Distro got out of my way and let me work in general peace. It let me know when updates were needed and waited until I decided to install them. Occasional donation asks (probably once or twice a year) to KDE, which I do not mind because they are open source and awesome, I donate due to their work in the Linux space! Sure, I've had occasional problems, but, there's been a solution for every issue I faced!
Windows 11 problems are directly caused by Microsoft insane desire to push AI into everything ( insane because it's dangerous and has no safety rails). Until Microsoft shift their OS and mentality in the right direction, those fundamental issues will never be solved (not that I would ever willingly use anything Microsoft made again after this fiasco).
Mmm, Bazzite is certainly user-friendlier, kinda like SteamOS is (the only Arch based thing I feel is user-friendlier).
Bazzite is nice, I'm running it at the moment. The gaming customizations are nice and having the latest kernel stable+NVIDIA open drivers is swell. You can even use Distroshelf (to emulate a distro) and App pass through to install apps that don't have a Flatpak version. Or package layering, which is needed for VPNs like Mullvad to work properly; that's also pretty easy to manage, so I never feel like I don't have access to software. Too bad stock Fedora cannot be arsed to make NVIDIA drivers brain dead easy at the time of installation.
ROFL This money milking project that Sam Altman prioritized after suffering his twink death isn't going too well. Bully for him, I'm glad the race to the bottom is starting to accelerate! That's what happens when you try to monetize garbage and pretend it's treasure. May OpenAI eventually rest in piss, also get a scathing and pithy postmortem by a very clever tech writer!
Yeah, it does depend on the user, like I replied to another person. You have to figure out the needs of the user and adapt accordingly. For some, their needs are far less complex and all of their software would be on Flathub. So package layering is a situation problem, I just got unlucky with 3 out of the several programs that I use. Which is why I'd mention it, as edge cases are always a thing.
Eh, could, but I like the layering. Realistically, it's just three apps and everything else has a Flatpak version. I might experiment with using DistroShelf for the apps that don't actually need to be layered. Mullvad VPN is the only app I use that needs to be layered.
Edit: I did it, installed Ubuntu into a box in DistroShelf, and installed Bibisco and Filen in that Ubuntu Box. It was easy, and I removed those layered apps from Bazzite. Eh, I might still be a lazy bastard, at least I can do that little amount of work. LMAO
Yeah, it is understanding the user and trying to give them recommends that would suit their technical ability and desire to learn. As using Linux (any distro) requires varying degrees of knowledge, I often ask people what they do with their computer and if they are fairly comfortable with technical things before making a recommend. I also firmly remind them they need to learn the basics, as it will often save them a lot of trouble!
Atomic distros have a set-back of having to deal with Package Layering in the case of those that aren't found on Flathub. That's a bit outside of the wheelhouse of a non-tech savvy person. You or I could easily deal with package layering, as it's important to remove them before a major system update...We'd remember to do that before applying such an upgrade. They might not, leading to frustration. I think Linux Mint, ZorinOS, or even just Ubuntu would be better.
Still, I do use Bazzite, as I am comfortable with the package layering and understand mostly how atomic distros work.
It's certainly a surprising addition to the circle of distros...Reminds me TOO much of Windows and that's a big negative for me. However, for someone else this would be a pathway towards escaping Microsoft that has gotten lobotomized by their lust for AI.
I don't preorder as a rule because unlike in the past when there was a limited amount of physical copies at any given time...The Digital Age has rendered preordering a pointless endeavor that major companies use as metric to decide success (which is honestly not the best play). However, it has helped influence the major corps when it came to pricing issues, The Outer Worlds 2 for example got a price drop because people cancelled their preorders. Another reason why I don't preorder is because quality and getting a feature complete game is not guaranteed even with a 1.0 release. Cyberpunk 2077 really burned me as it was one of the messiest launches that I've seen (aside from No Man's Sky); the Cyberpunk 2077 launch experience cemented my rabid disdain for the practice of even once in a great while preordering. I will only buy games after reading reviews from trusted sources, if there are too many launch day issues...Then it won't be purchased at the time or at all later on if those issues aren't resolved permanently.
In short: Early Access is a risk, that can often make a game that would've never released, become a feature complete game. However, you must always understand it's a risk. Evaluate the odds, ask yourself if you are willing to burn money in the hopes of getting something good.
At Length: My feelings on Early Access are slightly different. As users can actively shift the quality, priorities, and overall vibe of a game that is in progress. I only buy Early Access games that I believe will succeed and be influenced into excellent games; it's like taking a gamble a Kickstarter, the project, despite such monetary support may never leave early access and becoming fucking shit. While 7 Days to Die is in a redemption arc, it mutated wildly from Alpha to Alpha, and was rushed into a 1.0 state without addressing fundamental gameplay issues. Wholesale removing and changing fundamental elements that make a survival game, well...A survival game. Later getting readded in a weird and not properly balanced way, much to the chagrin of the fans of the game. If you plan on buying Early Access, assess risk first. Then purchase!
Yes, I feel we need a rule against AI Slop in Just Post, as it's becoming far too common to see Slop on the Fediverse! They need to be contained in their highly specific communities that I can block, filtered out of other communities with rules against it's presence.
It is a noble goal to transition vulnerable code into memory safe language code...However, using AI to reach this goal is beyond incompetent and will lead to constant issues. However, Microsoft is the embodiment of audacity and incompetence, so that doesn't surprise me at all. Taking the piss by making so many engineers who would do a better job, jobless (though they will eventual be hired by sensible companies when they catch a bubble). Microsoft Execs are absolute wankers, the lot of them. They are speedrunning another Brain Drain event into existence.
LMAO What a wretched thing to have been allowed to exist...This is why I laugh at AIBros that think AI can create art.
Definitely some, I over-exaggerate, I've seen some concentrated hate in certain places for GNOME.