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The systems and progression used for monetization always detracts from the final result

This, this, this! When is a company ever going to sell something and not encourage people to buy it? "Oh hey, if you wanna skip the grind you can just gimme $5 ;) " yeah sure, that grind is an important part of the game (being sarcastic here) that I'm skipping by bribing the company in charge of it.

wanders off mumbling instead of spouting more sarcasm at other forms

There's still code work going in that's not going to get any extra money but the art work has to get extra money? I think that's worth talking about. Is (visual, audio, etc.) art less necessary? Should it be seen that way?

Of course, some companies sell patches (DLCs that fix long-standing bugs certainly exist). Maybe there's a kind of equality to come, code-work and art-work both getting exploited equally hard and wrung for every last cent.

So much this! As a user of both Arch and Gentoo I say, don't use Arch as Gentoo! It's not Gentoo! AUR is not a standard repository and there's a reason they make you jump through hoops just to use the thing.

Also, it's a total pain when normal package management is quick and easy. The building alone is weird in Arch and somehow like 60% of the crap I try to build from AUR fails hard and I just can't be bothered to spend more than like twenty minutes tweaking on it. Gr. 😅

(Aaalllsooo, apparently lots of people break their Arch installs using the AUR like it's a normal repo and then wonder why Arch is so crap and leave.)

Not a fan of how the OP's written but whatever.

Like any distro, it's for who it's for and if you don't like it then feel free to distro hop until you find one you do. Why is the "average user" trying to use a "hard distro" anyway? Seems like the "average user" is increasingly "some rando who just wants to use their computer" so yeah, I'd say it's pretty useless for someone who has no use for it. I suppose it's more of an "if you don't know why you want it then it's probably not going to help you" sort of thing. I like that it lets me set things up my way then mostly just goes away until I want it for something. Other people like software that holds their hand or handles a bunch of things for them. It's fine, not everything must be for everyone.

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But also grumblegrumble tease-based marketing :P

Amusing to see a link to "Dev Interrupted" that gets interrupted partway through the development of its title :D

How is "if you're filthy rich" better than "never?" Two things can be bad at the same time.

I feel like federated-not-Reddit-thingle has gotten to a point where it's really nasty sometimes :- People look for the worst possible interpretation (even in ND spaces like this??) and get by with just generally crappy "sit down and shut up" type behaviour, among other things. Idunno if the caring types just got bored and left, or maybe the novelty wore off and they're just less active than the ones who wanna be hateful and cruel, or maybe they've all skittered off to beehaw or someplace that doesn't even federate with instances I'm seeing some of this behaviour on (or maybe most/all? I haven't really been paying attention to that)

Am really thinking I should join them; the content (and ability to downvote the awful, which makes me feel a little better even when I don't have the time or energy to fully call out the problem) probably isn't worth the awful.

Suddenly I'm curious about how many of these are the same people who laugh at warnings on coffee cups and power tools.
"WARNING: don't put your hand here or this will saw your fingers off!" "haha lol who would do that"
"WARNING: don't flip this switch or this will break your computer" "omfg why puter not work!!"
Like, damn, if you're straight-up warned then maybe the real problem's in the chair :- Seems there's kinda no solution for that but for the user to get smarter. Can't put all of the intelligence into the software.

Also, what's the story with the immutable distro hype? peeks out from under her rock I've heard of NixOS and various critters seem to love it but I never imagined that sort of thing would become a thing (kinda thought it was just a neat little niche) let alone a big thing for 'inexperienced' sorts.

Meanwhile, Windows changes its whole-ass UI (possibly a slight exaggeration but it's enough that they complain every time) every time a new version's out yet somehow "something new" doesn't apply, all of the software people would actually be using is just the same anyway, and the removed/forced "features" don't count as "good reasons." Bleh.

| If your Windows 7 or newer computer blue screens, it's very likely a bad piece of hardware, occasionally a bad driver. The OS itself is quite solid.

Okay, really, though? Windows is solid and good because it doesn't kernel panic much? Who's getting kernel panics out of Linux without faulty hardware or doing something risky? I think you've equivocated a bit here: either we're comparing kernel to kernel or we're comparing userland to userland. You're comparing Windows itself to Linux userland or using some kernel even freakier than the weird patched-up stuff I like to play with.

I feel like discussion of this topic is plagued by double standards and shifting goalposts :- Apples to oranges comparisons, refusals to even consider things just because they're 'foreign,' blaming "Linux" for things that really aren't its fault (neither in the OS sense nor in the broader sense) ... including of course (sometimes) turning the discussion into an "us versus them" thing. Software on Linux has iffy documentation! ... But the same software exists on Windows, or the equivalent(s) is(/are) just as bad. Linux kernel documentation is scary or weird! ... But no one relevant is touching it anyway and wasn't touching Windows kernel anything either. The UI is different! Yeah, so's the new one on every version of Windows you get forced into. Casual Windowsers all hate it every time but somehow "Linux" is unusable because they won't learn a new UI unless Microsoft tells them to.

You can buy (a licence to, if MS likes you lots, borrow) a copy of Windows and apparently buy support for it too... yeah okay, but that's business, not a software issue. There are enterprise distros and software packages with all' that business-type support, unless they've all vanished? That's how that stuff works, no?

I'm not demanding anyone switch and distro hop over the course of months to find a distro they love but I'd really prefer to see some more fairness discussing the matter. "Linux" is never going to be "usable on desktop" if it's always just the enemy to be spurned and derided.

(Also, sorry this got so wordy. It's not meant as a diatribe, just I feel like there's a lot to say and I'm not saying much of it 🤷‍♀)
TLDR: It's unfair or outright dishonest to blame an apple for not being tart enough and hide that your actual standard is "is it an orange."

Wow this thing is a huge mess of text @.@ That's in there, though. (10) under the "whereas" at the top of the proposal bit. Not mentioned in the "scope" part, where I'd expected. Maybe others expected it there too, and not mixed in with seventy other things up top? I'm just guessing here; presumably someone familiar with these sorts of documents would know to look there or would just bust out the Ctrl+F magicks and find this :-

Pretty sure that's the point: no one's got any time or energy to do anything but serve

Hey!

We're people who are masochists! :D
(That said, I use Arch now .... by the way 🤣Will probably switch back eventually. May try Funtoo? Hm. 🤷‍♀)

sigh I'm having a shitty, rough time lately. Turns out it was all neatly hidden behind some scripts that hadn't loaded and I didn't notice some reasonably subtle signs of "we can't display images or text without scripts" so I assumed it was all buried somewhere or just wasn't actually presented (in favour of "trust us, we found lots of DANGER in all dark chocolate").

Ugh, what a crap article. I don't want the history of chocolate and children and blah blah blah; where's the info?

Comments here seem to suggest it's just all lead and cadmium everywhere. Cool. Unfortunate, considering I love dark chocolate. Just another reason to say FML I guess. Presumably this won't actually change anything, either. That's great; we can't have any corporate profits affected by having to provide even remotely clean and safe snacks/foods/candies/whatever.

I hate this world so much.

This reminds me that I'm never gonna understand furfash. Like, here we are in a furpile or watching cartoons or just like, wiggling or some crap and some bellend's gotta be all, "Hitler is cool actually" and that's part of their whole 'sona while the whole rest of us are doing a thing that kinda naturally implies a lack of restrictions (on personal physical form, especially!) and having a nice time. What part of any of this fits well with "you have to exist my way" O.o rantrantrant!

Hahah, lemme know when they actually do fuck off. Sure, they deserve that response but it's not gonna get rid of them any more than it has anywhere else on the capitalist web.

Yeah that bit was weird. Like, I'm gonna die to spare a copy of Mein Kampf? I'm sure there are others.

Now, maybe there's an argument to be had that I don't own a copy of that book and must have taken it from someone else, possibly intending to use it as kindling... But like, was I gonna burn something of more interest and possible use, or the damn Hitler book only the edgiest "history" fans and a few weird history nerds seem to actually like.

What were we talking about? Oh yeah. LegalAction wants us all to die to save copies of Mein Kampf, which will then be destroyed anyway without anyone to protect them. Kinda goofy opinion, that.

Works for me on kbin (at https://kbin.social/u/@elonjet@mastodon.social (note the initial @, which may be a kbin thing))
Lemmy does the Mastodon thing too? Some critter(s) said that was only a kbin thing. Yay confusion! :3