Distro-hopping is a valid hobby, but it’s not for everyone. If you aren’t specifically interested in distros and fiddling with packages, hopping around on your “daily driver” can be disruptive. If you just want something that works, there’s nothing wrong with figuring out which distros do what you need and using one of those for work and play. If something catastrophic happens to a distro to make it literally unusable, you can worry about that when it happens. There is usually something else which is almost the same. Few people will get much value from hopping between distros which are basically the same, just because the distros are put out by different companies or install different packages by default.

The post volume is still much lower, but that isn’t all bad, since the toxicity and quality isn’t as bad and unlimited scroll time isn’t healthy.

It sounds like SUSE is announcing that it is happy to eat the cost of providing a free distro that is RHEL-compatible, and to offer paid support to customers who want to use a RHEL-compatible distro, all as an add-on to their core business with SUSE. Can anyone correct my understanding?

If I signed up to a mag on one instance, that doesn’t mean I want to sign up to it on a different instance.

Nobody is talking about banning users “the moment they mention anything more eastern than Norway.”

It stands for Marxism-Leninism, which other people would call Communism.

The issue is not whether there is some individual occasion where some individual person posts “conspiracy shit.”

The issue is whether admins act on user reports of blatant anti-semitism.

“There are no Linux gamers. It’s useless”

“Wow, look at all the Steam Deck users!!”

what you see as ads, they see as content.

Who is “they” in phrases like “they control the narrative” and “they’re coming for the platforms”?

Do you have any concrete criticism of the Orkney council? If their fundamental complaint is neglect (evidenced by low per-capita funding relative to other island governments) then it hardly makes sense to blame that on Orkney.

The mob boss who wants $8/mo for a lame service but won’t harm you if you don’t want it?

You’re doing the right thing. They’re just trying to juice their own numbers by pressuring you to say something effusive.

that sentence is not only valid for gender, it’s for anything other cultural label (like genders are).

How about race? Can white people elect to be Black?

Execs aren’t suffering…

Flatpak has always been the Red Hat controlled play in containerized app packaging. Red Hat floods Flathub with auto-generated Flatpaks based on their RPMs. Flathub is becoming an app store with an obvious intention of becoming “the” Linux app store, displacing distro packages. Centralization is the whole idea. No significant number of people will ever use Flatpaks from anywhere except Flathub - unless Red Hat makes its own Flathub.

Ah, the “programmers are all buttplugs” hypothesis

Matrix’s Code of Conduct says that they will not act on CoC violations that they find ideologically congenial. That’s a blank check for harassment, and it applies to every forum which might be used for technical coordination around Matrix.