Article discussing the phenomenon of atomic distributions and numerous associated risks and perils for the Linux desktop, including lack of productizatiom, market share, problems with package management, software distribution and would-be software stores, commercial versus community model, trust and security, Google model, major usability regressions over the past decade, fresh fragmentation, monetary factors, bad timing and missing bigger picture, repetition of effort, battle of egos, and still more

Alas, just as we’ve reached some small level of stability, some small level of progress, there’s a good chance all of this effort will have been in vain. What do I mean by this? Well, the Linux world is fragmenting once more, on several levels.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    A similar theme here from 2022 slagging off fedora

    Some up his own arse wanker: Dedoimedo is owned and run by Igor Ljubuncic: former physicist, contemporary IT nerd, fantasy & sci-fi book author, and persona extraordinaire.

    and of course clickbait, bullshitter extraordinaire.

    https://redlib.privacyredirect.com/r/Fedora/comments/jtbkv1/fedora_33_review_by_dedoimedo_i_dont_know_about/

    a few opinions

    I’m of the same opinion when it comes to Dedoimedo.

    I used to enjoy his stuff but it sounds like he’s soured on Linux distros in general over the years. Most of his complaints boil down to typical Windows users complaints about Linux. Which is fine, because I suppose that’s the audience whose views he’s trying to reflect (people who want their systems to “just work”), but it places unfair expectations on Linux distros to be something they’re no

    I, too stopped trusting Dedoimedo’s reviews quite some time ago. The issues he has always seem to be the same and often are things I can’t reproduce. Also often, like in this review, his qualms are more with the chosen DE not the actual distro. Why would review a GNOME distro if you hate GNOME? Just so you can then complain about it?

    The irony is, that his review on KDE was glowing and with KDE he seems to be more than willing to ignore all the little niggles or they magically disappear on his usually fickle machine.