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I'm not convinced these efforts to put everyone's ideas in one place and one software are good. Often, design disagreements arise which are incompatible. Under this model of "everybody love everybody" lameshit, if you can't get the group to accept your idea, it doesn't happen.
You don't run into this problem when you write alone.
That other something might be led by a dickhead that you can't get along with, or a community that's not receptive to your suggestions or patches.
Social processes and blockages can lead to losing motivation to contribute. Not everyone is cut out to be this happy-go-lucky team player that has no personality.
As for myself, I'd rather start from scratch because 1) I'll control every variable, 2) I don't have to mess around with some existing social and tech infra, 3) I don't have to talk to anyone and convince them my ideas are good, 4) who wants to spend more time arguing or discussing than writing code?
The solodev experience is just better. You're not hamstrung by politics and social process. Being a team player has only led to misery for me.
What would you use instead of malloc and free?
Video games are some of the most complex and most difficult pieces of software both to build and to get right. Modern games are coded so poorly that driver makers have to release patches for specific games.
It's the gamedev world that can't get its shit together. Valve settled on an Arch-based distro for the Deck. The specific distro doesn't matter since Steam already establishes its system requirements and comes with a runtime.
Beyond that, I really don't see the issues you're talking about. Generally, any issues you have are fixed by symlinking the correct .so files. This is a side effect of targeting a specific version of software instead of keeping to its more base features. That's on the dev, not the user or distro.
You act like Windows has never had ABI breakage or versioning problems. I'd like to see the specific issues you ran into; maybe there's an easy fix like a symlink.
Things like Electron are good for devs but bad for users. We have more computation power than ever and yet programs still run slow.
There's glibc, musl libc, etc. Also consider you may be using the functions incorrectly.
Too much work to navigate.
Let's couple those unemployment statistics to income and see which jobs are growing. Hint, it won't be any good jobs. Which is the actual problem: too many jobs in America are "not meant for you to live on" and most economic opportunity is insufficient for significant economic improvement at the ground level of society.
What are you building with it that would be harder in bash or another shell? I'm not seeing the value of passing around opaque objects instead of text.
That's a key problem with the developer story on Windows, especially coming from GNU/Linux. Where are my standard compilers and libraries? What use do I have for a terminal on Windows? In bash, I get powerful commands and a simple text-based pipeline hooked up to coreutils and literally anything else that runs on the command line, which is a metric ton of software in that ecosystem.
Back to Windows. What would I want PowerShell to do? What would I use PowerShell for that I wouldn't want to just use Bash instead? Windows doesn't have coreutils or nice command line software to do fun or powerful things with.
I see PowerShell as a "look we have a terminal!" from Windows, but nothing that I want to do in said terminal to motivate me to learn.
Personally I find that suspicious behavior in an allegedly open ecosystem.
I totally love it when liars frontmanning the project say it's a project and an init system and a system layer that will replace everything. But it won't! Pay no attention to the inconsistent messaging, the "gentle pushes" to get other distros to use it, etc. Also, let's not mention he basically hoodwinked the entire community by switching teams to Microsoft. And people like you eat his work up! Are you sure you like free software?
Maybe Git...? I thought that was pretty cool back in 2006.
I did, I left Arch Linux and went to Gentoo where I could have control.
Arch is a shadow of what it was under Judd. phrakture was the worst thing to happen to that distro's culture.
OpenID was supposed to fix a lot of problems and doesn't appear to have, at all.
Anyway, there are lots of people who are not only knowledgeable enough but also skilled enough to triage bugs, but don't want to go through the rigamarole of a new account, e-mail, clicking a verification link, reading the bug report guidelines, etc.
Putting walls up to contribution is indeed a good way to get fewer people contributing. There's no guarantee the ones stubborn enough to still report bugs are reporting any better, though.
Git is free software and always has been. All these forges being split between community and enterprise are just so clearly people trying to make money on the popularity of other technology.
There don't appear to be any one-time purchase options, either. So, a subscription so you can collaborate with other people... Yeah, no.
cgit and Mantis and bugzilla all still work and are actual libre software.
An AV is a waste of system resources unless you're a fool that's easily convinced into opening things you shouldn't.
That's weird, cars get by just fine on having mechanics in every town.
We did not protest and revolt enough over money being sent to the Middle East. America has done every wrong move in handling this, and yet I can guarantee you there are people in this country that wanted America to fuel a war.
There is some responsibility that citizens have for the outcomes of their elections.
Given Israel's misleading and lying stances as other nations inspect the conditions of the conflict, and their regarding of Palestinians as less than human, I am not convinced they are interested or even capable of providing other cultures a better quality of life. Apparently invading other lands and engaging in colonialism is cool in 2023.
Money sent to Israel could have gone to Ukraine. Instead, Americans sponsored the massacre of innocent Gazans. I didn't vote for that, most of us didn't vote for that. Why should we accept it, or approve of Israel's genocidal war? The least they could do is be honest about how much they hate people showing the world the truth.
I truly have no respect or love in my heart for human beings who are comfortable killing to cover up their war crimes. As an American I'm sick of my tax dollars going to a bunch of desert conflicts that won't improve life for anyone.
You'd have to be blind to consider Red Hat not influential in its sphere.
It's not a conscious, calculated decision being made. It's social engineering in action. Most people don't read the Terms and Conditions. Most people don't understand how to inspect their computers for malware or misbehaving processes. They aren't qualified to determine the trustworthiness of their software. So we're supposed to pretend people chose to have details of how to fix their shit hidden from them? No, it was actions from industry to socially manipulate and normalize practices. Average people are being taken advantage of by industry, and the people who say something about it get blown off because "it just doesn't matter".
Yeah, sure, until it does. And they'll be too fucked to do anything about it, because human nature can never overcome this delusional positivity that life is fine and nobody is bad and businesses never mislead people. People with this outlook are poor at evaluating risk.