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  • Yeah, their branding makes it harder to recover.

    I don't know how they'll change their versioning in the future, so I just went with that.

    If they don't make an obvious split to when the extension system is stable, they may never get that new beloved version like KDE managed

  • If you just mean recently, one of the YouTubers with the most subscribers recently released a video about why he switched to Linux, and in it, he says he uses hyprland

    May be affecting its popularity

  • GNOME 2 was different and easy to customize

    GNOME is still in their KDE 4.x days where it needs time to mature.

    KDE 3 was loved, KDE 4 made a ton of breaking changes, and was reviled. KDE 5/6 are now butter smooth and fixed all the issues from the 3 -> 4 transition

    GNOME 4/5 will probably come back into the loved category if they start stabilizing the extension system some more

  • I think you agreed with me?

    I said the people who say Linux is so hard are the people that have learned so much about Windows that it's ingrained in them. So when they try to switch, they get frustrated that it isn't exactly the same

  • The vocal people saying it's harder have a lot of experience with Windows, and know how to work around all of its deficiencies after being a power user dealing with it for 15+ years

    With that mindset and not wanting to start over, Windows is easier

    For casual users or someone who's willing to learn, Linux is easier

  • Their statement is that Alpine is designed such that it is friendlier to corporations who want to lock down their devices and prevent you from modifying them.

    You cannot use coreutils and have a DRM locked down device.

    You can use Alpine w/ musl + busybox and make a DRM locked down device

    Alpine's licensing favors large corporation's rights in preventing the user from modifying their device

    Operating systems using coreutils favor the end user's rights

  • If they can take my unlocked device by force, they can probably also break my fingers to coerce me to unlock it See also: https://xkcd.com/538/

    Randall is right in pointing out you need to consider your attack vectors, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't take reasonable precautions

    Most people are more likely to run into the type of attack OP references than someone who can break LUKS encryption stealing their device

  • My naive reading is the difference here is HP slapped a discount sticker on it without changing the price.

    Where Kohls, et. al. set the price extremely high and then always have it "on sale."

    Now, how companies get away with doing the same thing for Black Friday, no idea

  • Wasn't France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180426180007/https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/

    It's great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time