I don’t know. Maybe you’re thinking of something different than I am, because didn’t most Linux distributions have that as well? Some definitely more than others. Especially arch. Even more user-friendly distributions of arch still allow some insane customization. I installed catchy the other day and was blown away to see them offer system d-boot among others right there in the installer. Even garuda and others just assume system d by default.
Ah my bad. Though still, at valid point, Free BSD is one of many BSD distributions. Therefore not “distro less”. I’ve done the distro less thing once and only once just for the experience. I am 100% with you that in general I think any sane person would want a decent distribution.
Which one? Open, Net, Free? Ports and AUR etc are awesome. But not new or great for everyone.
Yeah for me at least it’s kind of sad how GIMP has been on the back burner forever. I was compiling pre 1.0 versions on Debian back in the 90s as it wasn’t in anyone’s repo yet. It’s been a go to software forever regardless of my DE. But at least these days there’s krita for many of those use cases, and it’s QT.
Yeah, for my hobbyist needs I was looking at qt myself. They’ve both been around since 98. But you’re right about gtk being focused on their use only. It’s in the name. Gimp tool kit. Though these days I guess its more GNOME?
Fair point. Also an issue with Wayland ATM too iirc. Hopefully something that sees increased attention now that it’s gone flagship.
Qt, GTK, they’re both solid. But yeah, it is an impressive development.
I’ve used Linux pretty consistently since about 1995-96. In the 90s, it was for the nerdiest of the nerdy computer science students. In the aughts canonical and others brought in a lot of attention, polish, and funding. That knocked off some of the biggest rough edges. Making it a perfectly valid daily driver for general computing for anyone. The 2010s was the decade of wine, proton, steam, and valve. Tearing a gaping hole in Microsoft’s platform lock in. The 2020s are shaping up to be the decade of OEM support. From Tuxedo, to System 76, to framework, to valve themselves.
The last big hurdle was hardware designed to work with and shipped with Linux. It’s been proven now. And there’s no taking it back. There can still be catches and pain points. Proprietary software requirements and bespoke hardware. DRM. But that’s becoming less and less acceptable. I’ve switched my 70 year old parents. Once they’re up and running it’s been less constant support than windows.
Reagan absolutely fucked everything yes. But Clinton and his 3rd way Democrats did significant damage in this instance all on their own.
Or the Democratic leadership and specifically Bill Clinton who enabled this.
Geforce soon, just not geforce now. Nvidia always late to the party.
Yep. Even NT was doing it for decades. Though it was pretty discouraged on the Microsoft side.
If industrialization raises up a population, financialization plunges them.
Exactly, that’s why China’s economy is slowing.
Corporations in the US are seeing the highest profits they’ve ever seen in history. Wage theft has never been worse. Income disparity is widening more and more every year without any prospect of redistribution in sight.
Definitely, similar is happening in China as well. It’s why larger chunks of their youth aren’t participating and feel they have no place.
Corporations in China, however, are folded into the state as soon as they get too large. Corporate profits are collected by the state and redistributed to the population. China has many more protections to prevent it from choosing greed and sacrificing the working people than the US.
Which is largely meaningless as they exploit workers as hard or harder.
I want what’s happening in China to happen to us in America.
It did and is. The good bits happened over 60 years ago in the US. But we’re rapidly approaching the lack of press freedom and social surveillance China pioneered. Even as they’re approaching our inequality.
In tank space sure. But not in any non-hypocrical space. Again everything you implied about China could be said about the US.
However, it was industrialization brought up living standards. Not any particular party or ideology. In every different government and economic system industrialization has been pushed, it has benefited the population. And industrialization doesn’t make up for the oppression and abuses that said parties or ideologies commit while industrializing.
The fact that industrialization raised the standard of living in the US doesn’t justify their theft of my ancestors land or culture. Or the enslavement of blacks. It certainly doesn’t excuse or justify China’s oppression or cultural erasure of the uhygers. Tibetans or Hong Kongers as well. If you think it does or deny their abuse you’re just a hypocrite. 🤷
It will be interesting to see what the licensing situation will be. Nothing is impossible, though I don’t think it would work too well as a tightly controlled/licensed ISA. And for more open or looser license ISA like Arm or RiscV. It’s s bit late to the party or has significantly less buzz. However competition and choice is always good, so it will be fun to see how it all shakes out.
Nearly everything you mentioned there could be said about China as well though. So, how? In what way does it make China look better? Serious question. And not a defense of the west out the US.
Well, assuming that you are on windows, it’s a whole extra step.
There’s no real way Mozilla could compete. Google has nothing to fear on that front like the browser front. It’s far more likely Mozilla’s ultimate intention. Is to integrate Gemini or similar further into the browser than they already have. Mozilla is years late to the circle jerk, and everyone else has partnered up.
¿Why not both?
You can install nix on most distro and mix and match packages. Things like docker flatpak etc can get you close to being technically distro less at the cost of some storage space for the distro bases.
True distrolessness is a thing almost no one would want. Build once install everywhere OTOH.