Ew. Get away from me.

Ok this is now a stupid conversation. Really? Humanity?

Yeah, humanity. The fact you think it’s ‘stupid’ really just proves my point that you’re too far gone.

or type boltctl -list

Really? You have every command memorized? You never need to look any of them up? No copy-pasting!

Come on, at least try to make a decent argument to avoid looking like a troll.

I’m glad rational people have won out and your rhetoric is falling further and further by the wayside. The command line is great for development and developers. It’s awful for regular users which is why regular users never touch it.

You lost sight of your humanity, which is why you don’t even think about how asinine it is to say “just type this command!” as though people are supposed to know it intuitively.

Gonna block ya now. Arguing with people like you is tiresome and a waste of time.

Have fun writing commands. Make sure you don’t use a GUI to look them up, or else you’d be proving me right.

Yeah. I don’t support making software worse just to pressure people into paying for it.

Maybe if I was the one making money off of it, sure. But I’m just a user so it doesn’t make sense for me to go to bat for the businessman.

It’s also really creepy and borderline pedophilic.

I’d recommend avoiding all of these companies.

They will charge you a premium for inferior hardware and an OS they don’t have to pay licensing fees on.

You can buy a Lenovo gaming laptop with a 4070 for $900 from Walmart that will run Linux without issues. Don’t give these scumbags your money. They’re banking on you being stupid.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-LOQ-15-6-FHD-144Hz-Gaming-Notebook-Ryzen-7-7435HS-16GB-RAM-512GB-SSD-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4070-Luna-Grey-Octa-Core-Display-Ram/13376108763

Good choice.

Framework always seemed like a meme.

Check out https://old.reddit.com/r/LaptopDeals/ daily until you find something that suits you needs and budget.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-LOQ-15-6-FHD-144Hz-Gaming-Notebook-Ryzen-7-7435HS-16GB-RAM-512GB-SSD-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4070-Luna-Grey-Octa-Core-Display-Ram/13376108763

Here’s a gaming laptop from Walmart with a 4070 for only $900.

Maybe the solution is for browsers to include POW functionality natively.

We see dumb shit like “you need to enable DRM yadayada.” We could have a similar thing for “you need to enable POW.”

Oh god, is that that software with the annoying/creepy nekogirl?

Why can’t devs be normal.

If the people criticizing him could roll up their sleeves and make better software, then I’d take their criticisms seriously.

Otherwise they’re “just a critic.”

That’s a fair disagreement to have, and a sign that you’re fighting bigger battles than just getting software to work.

Static linking really is only an issue for proprietary software. Free software will always give users the option to fix programs that break due to updated dependencies.

Static linking is a good thing and should be respected as such for programs we don’t expect to be updated constantly.

Chicken and egg.

Fuckin hate having to go through config files to change settings…

It’s always great when settings are easily accessible in a GUI, though! Mad props to the great developers that include them!

It’s always the best way to get across what needs to be done and have the person execute it.

Sigh. If you want to use the command line, great. Nobody is stopping you.

For those of us who don’t want to use the command line (most regular users) there should be an option not to, even in Linux.

Its sad people see it as a negative when it is really useful.

It’s even sadder seeing people lose sight of their humanity when praising the command line while ignoring all of its negatives.

I try to avoid using the command line as much as possible, but it still crops up from time to time.

Back when I used windows, I would legitimately never touch the command line. I wouldn’t even know how to interact with it.

We’re not quite there with Linux, but we’re getting closer!

I mean, we already know the solution to gnome’s crappy design decisions is to use something else.

This comment chain is specifically about criticizing gnome.

I also wouldn’t have as much of an issue with gnome for removing features if they also made the right design decision in place of those features.

They want to remove features to make things easier on them, not users.

Personally, I’m disgusted by the “matter of fact” tone GNOME devs take to criticism only to be wrong in the end.

It’s like, they dig their heels in so deep on dumb shit like “the dock should be on the side because vertical space is at a premium!” and then renege after years of users telling them they’re wrong. Literally whoever is floating ideas like that on their team needs to be fired and blacklisted, but unfortunately they’re probably promoted.

They also can’t be arsed to include proper settings, so it’s up to everyone else to pick up their slack.

At some point, it starts to feel like weaponized incompetence. I genuinely do not want GNOME’s culture to pervade more parts of the free software ecosystem.

Agreed. I used to be a diehard XFCE fan and hated KDE. Then I saw their resource usage came pretty close to each other but KDE had way more development behind it so they could add Wayland support (which I actually don’t even use.)

KDE used to be buggy and bloated. They’ve been improving stability for years and their efforts really show. I used to think it was bloated, but it really isn’t if you only use the parts you need. I use it pretty similarly to XFCE, it just has more dev support.

Until they need gnome to do something it doesn’t do…