I swear I’ve seen such headline for years now.
China committed to gradually shift from Windows to Linux on government computers. It will certainly take years, assuming it succeeds in the first place.
But still, good news they’re going for it. Hopefully we’ll see the year of Linux on Chinese PCs.
One fun thing about Linux is that you always learn
Linux folks be like: I don’t have a good enough tool for this niche thing. Guess how my next 1000 hours will be spent? 😄
Seriously though, nice work!
Fair point, and Void is cool in its own right, but there are good reasons it mostly falls under “obscure” distro category.
First is, of course, the systemd-free nature of it. Linux world absolutely needs systemd-free distros, but your average Linux user simply doesn’t know how to handle them properly, and the learning curve is somewhat steep. Besides, everyone and everything comes with an assumption you run systemd, so often times, you’ll be on your own figuring out the correct fix.
Second is a relatively small userbase. Void, while not being completely unknown, is not by any means a mainstream distro. We have those - some people still run Slackware, for example - but they quickly fall outside the scope of most users due to a relatively underdeveloped community, which is crucial for a Linux project.
This is why Void is often not even seen as an option.
Sure. But they are still more limited in scope in my experience, not to mention security concerns and other problems.
For me, it’s “use it the dev way or no way at all” mentality baked in.
If you like the GNOME way of doing things, you’ll feel great. If you don’t like any aspect of it, it will be very hard to rectify.
Interesting that you had similar experience with KDE, because mine is on the contrary. Whatever I could envision, it could be made with KDE - even the stock one. Essentially, you can even recreate much of GNOME experience within it, if you so prefer.
Favorite: KDE
Least favorite: GNOME (but Adwaita is sick)
First DE used: KDE
Honourable mention: Hyprland, Cosmic
Current DE: KDE
Longest used DE: KDE
DE you wanna use in the future: KDE
Current distro: Bazzite
Yeah…I made my pick :D
Damn, fuel is finite
Step 1. Get a lot of money
Step 2. Ignore the laws and get myself a super comfy RTG-powered hidden bunker with a Faraday cage
Step 3. Put my servers in there, take drives full of everything from the outside
Step 4. Live comfortably ever after
Not very clear why Linux foundation would give more funds to blockchain projects than to the Linux kernel itself.
Crypto projects have ways to fund themselves just fine. And as they are commonly negatively seen in the open-source community, this kind of funding from one of the largest bodies in the open-source world raises some eyebrows.
Ubuntu has large corporate interest and is managed by a private company earning dozens of millions of dollars annually. There is a financial interest to be made here.
Honestly it’s not even worth ridiculing, just forget it already