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Linux based distributions solve this by not being a monoculture, no?

Pandering to the masses would be in the form of specific desktop environment, and maybe specific distribution integrating it well with all kinds of desktop software.

Nothing would change for the existing users of obscure software, hackishly stitched together.

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Hey, you have a github or maybe just briefly expand on something for me, I'm interested in the luckfox pico bootloader you wrote and separately using it as USB via raw gadget which are things you've talked about last year, these are things I'm actually wanting to do with my otherwise untouched LF. (was planning on writing a poc for 2024-53197 (iirc that's the cve)

I may be looking in the wrong place but your comment was one of the few things I came across referencing LF + usb gadget.

Not at all. All Linux distributions essentially run the same software with different packages and configuration files. There are a few either/or choices they make, but it’s mostly overlap with very little disro specific software.

If Linux software starts widely adapting more dark patterns it will probably impact users across all distributions.

I share that concern, but again: if more people move to Linux, maybe (?) more people will become advanced Linux user and maybe (?) it will bring more activity into advanced distros.

Not that I believe it will necessarily be good, but I'm not sure it will necessarily be bad. Could go both ways, IMO.

> If Linux software starts widely adapting more dark patterns it will probably impact users across all distributions

What is preventing people from just creating a fork?

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