humanoidchaos

Did they shut down due to a lack of business, or was it the government stepping in and imposing its mandate that everyone else has to follow no matter what?

If it's the former, good. If it's the latter, then it's very bad.

I fucking hate corporate use of emojis.

Just feels like some businesspeople were convinced it drives up "engagement", so that's what their underlings to do.

It makes me sick. I support any and all efforts to remove these ideas and the people who perpetuate them from the free software space.

Sorry you hate it. Thanks for being honest.

I avoid all of those kinds of devices because the price in no way reflects the mediocre hardware that we'll be getting.

When we can get 4070 Lenovo laptops at Walmart for $1,000, it just doesn't make sense to be spending a comparable price on something without a fucking GPU.

We're lining the pockets of businessmen at that point. And don't be fooled: it's all business at the end of the day.

I agree with you.

Everyone who is saying that windows isn't profitable or no longer an important part of microsoft's business strategy is just a parrot succumbing to the snowball effect.

I'd wager they have enough resources to stave it off for as long as possible, and when they can't do that anymore they will have a strategy for making money off of their "services" in the linux space.

Microsoft is part of the cabal at this point. Businesses give it money because they're expected to.

Who is the guy and how did he get that position?

I'm guessing he's just a businessman that was hired based on connections or "credentials"? Does he have any connection with the free software space at all?

We need to keep scumbags like that as far away from the ecosystem as possible. They are leeches and will take advantage of our ignorance if we let them.

I have practically no respect for the gnome project at this point, so it wouldn't surprise me if this guy was brought in because the gnome foundation wants to emulate proprietary software companies.

Looking at his list of contributions, he didn't do much but probably sucked up a fat paycheck.

That makes a lot of sense.

I personally don't like any kind of big moves in the free software space at this point. Anything that stands the test of time does so because it has the community backing it.

Whenever we put our faith into a company to do the work for us, it always ends up being really expensive and mediocre.

Don't be fooled into thinking the rules of business stop applying when dealing with a Linux company. These people still care about profit above all else and will never do anything that would get in the way of maximizing it.

There's a point where we have too many options and the space becomes too fragmented and inconsistent because everyone is doing their own thing instead of improving what others made.

I don't think we reached that with DEs, but if they don't maintain this one then it's kind of going to just be a waste of time and resources that could've been spent improving a different one.

Time will tell. DEs are massive undertakings and they have a lot of catch up to do.

I love KDE.

They're not afraid to add settings, unlike the gnome team.

Yeah, newsweek.

Where's CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo? Radio silence because there's nothing good to say, or we get some kind of opinion piece trying to paint Ukraine's losses as wins and Zelensky as some hero.

The copium among you people is palpable. You're incapable of recognizing when you've been taken for a ride or believed something that isn't true.

Propaganda works both ways. If you have trouble accepting this, then it's probably because you've fallen for it without realizing it and can't admit it.

Do your own research.

If you're trying to say that it doesn't happen, then say it so we can all laugh at your willful ignorance.