A few days ago I saw a post on c/opensource@lemmy.ml about “an alternarive to KDE Connect”, and the rationale to wanting “an alternative to KDE Connect” was that it “makes you download a lot of other software that you don’t really need”. Which it’s just the required Qt stuff. imho that’s plain ridiculous.

Given the high upvote count you can guess people just think about GTK as the default and every other toolkit as “software you don’t really need”.

Uhm, what?

Wayland has been in the works for more than a decade. Granted, there’s some people having issues with it, with propietary hardware (nVidia) and not-so-common setups like two monitors, but it happens that they are the most noisy. For the rest of us it’s been great, stable, and feels snappier than X.

If you want to talk about shoehorning stuff into Debian, talk about systemd.

I don’t even use Arch btw but feel like OpenBSD fanboys would relate more to this

Slim, stripped of unneeded documentation and files (including National Language Support; CRUX only supports the native language the programs were written in, which is english in most cases)

I’m positive about cutting unnecessary stuff, but imho that’s a bit too much (I mean for us non native english speakers, or at least those not learning english)

I have absolutely no idea how “Linux” is supposed to be pronounced. True story.

I thought for a sec this was calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world, anyone knows what happened to it? It’s been a week since the bot posted something there

How rich of you to think us Linux users have someone to talk to.

Why is Tux flipped, is this some sort of subliminal message? Is BigTech behind of this meme?

The maintainer of X11Libre, Enrico Weigelt, is an anti-vaxer who already got scolded by Torvalds for writing bullshit on the kernel mailing list

Oh, so it’s him. Dude got absolutely lucky Linus is on mild mode nowadays. On his prime the scold would’ve been of such epic proportions all the viruses he could have on his body would’ve leave him out of pure cringe.

Because choices, freedom… that kind of stuff. And I say this as a now long time KDE user who used to use GNOME in the beginning.

That being said, what made me flee to KDE was realizing that its devs somehow think they know their users better than their users know themselves so they decided to develop a software metaphor with a utterly specific way to do things. Not that it’s a bad thing per se, they can do whatever they want if they don’t hurt anything or anyone else - but I wish people coming into the Linux and FOSS world could have that as a kind of warning when the distro they choose to begin their journey happens to ship GNOME as default.