Precisely because of what is described in the post.

Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.

I think Lemmy is not at a scale sufficient enough to produce enough original content. I’m okay with tasteful reposting.

We’ll see brighter days indeed!

Well, might go hungry for a while if I need any clothes or whatnot. Trying to juggle side jobs to make it livable, and treat credit card with caution.

Microbiologist, Russia

Zero.

Copyright system barely ever benefits the authors themselves. Instead, it is one of the forces perpetuating the dominance of large businesses, and allowing monopolies and oligopolies to proliferate.

Particularly egregious are patents in the field of technology. We essentially agree to stifle the progress in the name of profits of patent holders - profits they’ll take from us - and it is not alright.

We must keep technology in the public domain for the benefit of society, and we must work on better forms of author compensation.

Honestly it’s not even worth ridiculing, just forget it already

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.

1. Assuming you do have a backup

One fun thing about Linux is that you always learn

Might be frontend-dependent, but it’s certainly an issue if comments are not filtered the same way.

Otherwise, alright, I see your point!

Honestly, that’s one thing I’ve never ever seen on the Fediverse, while having seen plenty in conventional social media.

It’s fair that some moderation action might be necessary going forward, but I don’t see this problem exist at a current scale.

Doesn’t take much normally. But still, I think Lemmy would surely benefit from adding custom filter lists that users can enable or disable at will.

Came here to say that!

I can’t comprehend why people would join instances in the list. If you don’t like a particular instance, just hop into the user settings and block it! Why let others set your blocklist?

Experimenting with blocklists is fine and how you find your comfort zone on Lemmy.

I once made an experiment in which I blocked lemmy.world - not out of spite, but to just see what the rest of Lemmy has to offer. Turns out, quite much!

Still, too many niche communities are hosted on .world, so here I am again.

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!

This person deeply hates all modern computing

KDE has trackpad gestures for 4 years now, but user configuration is still pretty much nonexistent. Don’t know how things are on GNOME’s end, but since you say it’s customizable there, I’ll give it a spin sometime!

To each their own indeed! I remember my ex specifically asked me to install GNOME as her first DE as she stepped into the Linux territory. Who was I to object? :)

Basic layout - maybe, but barely the experience.

• Can GNOME alter the system behavior beyond keybindings? Stock KDE can. You can make it not just look, but behave like GNOME to the point you won’t notice the difference.
• Can GNOME freely edit all buttons everywhere in any Adwaita app? KDE apps can, and KDE can always edit any top bar buttons of any apps and make them do whatever.
• Can GNOME easily spam as many elements as you want everywhere and edit the hell out of them to your heart’s content? Stock KDE can.
• Does GNOME offer graphical, WYSIWYG, zero-config, zero-code way to alter any look and feel element of the system? Stock KDE does.
• Can GNOME at least support some basic things like widgets without me having to reach for extensions? Stock KDE can.

KDE allows you to turn your system into anything you want without ever touching a single config, and this goes immeasurably beyond a basic layout. It all comes out of the box, too. I only faced GNOME after experiencing KDE, and it felt so heavily like walls and walls and walls everywhere.

Now, I’m not saying GNOME is bad, and this is not a fanboy contest. But customizability of all things is clearly a win on KDE’s side.

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.