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It's core development culture was just taken over by marxists.
Merit-based contribution and free use philosophy is a thing of the past.
You're just using an old, problematic build. Linux itself, as a concept, is likely dead.
The user base will be more fragmented than ever, and this disunity will forever block uptake by normies.
You gotta remember that gamers are most families go-to "computer guy". If they use an OS, that's the one they'll install on their family's machines because they're familiar with it. Steam OS had the potential to bring millions of gamers onto the Linux platform and into it's (original) culture. Promoting uptake in the normie population, spurring the development of Linux as a serious Win/Mac competitor in the market place. Potentially even killing Windows and it's increasing user-experience gimping.
But no probs. You sound sound all set for the future. I hear old 1980s Commodore 64s still work too.
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I've been using Linux for 15 years and have a few dozen patches in the git history. This CoC nonsense certainly isn't a good thing, but most of what you've said here is overblown until proven otherwise. Linus' recent update seems reasonably sane -- he hasn't gone full SJW yet.
I hate commies with a burning passion, but some of the reaction and autistic screeching in response has been nearly as bad. It's not that they don't have some good points, it's that some of them are straight up lying and mud slinging instead of actually having any useful insights or solutions.
Much like systemd haters, most of the people complaining haven't written a single line of code in their lives. They'd be much easier to take seriously if they actually had some well reasoned ideas instead of just "the sky is falling, we're all fucked".
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I'm running Linux now. Doesn't seem destroyed to me.
[–] Gorillion 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's core development culture was just taken over by marxists.
Merit-based contribution and free use philosophy is a thing of the past.
You're just using an old, problematic build. Linux itself, as a concept, is likely dead.
The user base will be more fragmented than ever, and this disunity will forever block uptake by normies.
You gotta remember that gamers are most families go-to "computer guy". If they use an OS, that's the one they'll install on their family's machines because they're familiar with it. Steam OS had the potential to bring millions of gamers onto the Linux platform and into it's (original) culture. Promoting uptake in the normie population, spurring the development of Linux as a serious Win/Mac competitor in the market place. Potentially even killing Windows and it's increasing user-experience gimping.
But no probs. You sound sound all set for the future. I hear old 1980s Commodore 64s still work too.
[–] 14207056? 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
I've been using Linux for 15 years and have a few dozen patches in the git history. This CoC nonsense certainly isn't a good thing, but most of what you've said here is overblown until proven otherwise. Linus' recent update seems reasonably sane -- he hasn't gone full SJW yet.
I hate commies with a burning passion, but some of the reaction and autistic screeching in response has been nearly as bad. It's not that they don't have some good points, it's that some of them are straight up lying and mud slinging instead of actually having any useful insights or solutions.
Much like systemd haters, most of the people complaining haven't written a single line of code in their lives. They'd be much easier to take seriously if they actually had some well reasoned ideas instead of just "the sky is falling, we're all fucked".