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Originally posted by jo-erlend View Post
You probably think that Linux is mostly volunteer work. It isn't. It's mostly commercial and that's a good thing. Neither GNU or Linux has ever been a communist project. In fact GNU and the FSF recommends against giving away software free of charge. Because developers need money. Linux has always been intended to be free of charge, but has never been anti-commercial.
"It's mostly commercial and that's a good thing.": Well, what is commercial? Many companies sell services, but services rely on the O.S. they use. Controlling the O.S. (e.g. Google control Android which is free [in the meaning of "no cost"]) means controlling the services they offer. It's a fact that Windows 10 is almost free, because Microsoft has almost no control over portable and wearable devices. The traditional PC will die shortly. For me free means freedom, but there is no freedom if the community has no control at all. I know it is very hard or impossible to have such community so a compromise is necessary. But never let commercial companies to decide for us. Wayland is been developing since 2007. Too long time. That's because they don't know how to force people to abandon the old way. 13 years are much more than enough for a Xserver rewriting. Compositing is the same as lights for moths.Last edited by Guest; 07 February 2020, 10:17 AM.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View Posthttps isn't a VPN, the only traffic that is encrypted is the important parts (communication to/from the server). Most of the actual page content is still sent over http.
Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostMaybe you forget all those companies that invested billions of dollars over decades to make Linux world great with all their paid developers work.
I don't care. I need a tool that works well, and these people alone are insufficient to deliver it.Last edited by Guest; 07 February 2020, 10:20 AM.
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Originally posted by andyprough View PostI'm watching the video. This all seems Microsoft-ish in the extreme.
Just because Windows/macOS can do something, doesn't mean that Linux shouldn't do it.
How Windows handles things like roaming profiles is still far beyond what we can do on Linux.
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Originally posted by frank007 View PostYes, because cockies and other infos send back by the browsers must be read only by the web page owner and by the developers.
Is that the price they pay to get the control, for you?
Eating more today means eating less tomorrow.
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Originally posted by Britoid View PostJust because Windows/macOS can do something, doesn't mean that Linux shouldn't do it.
Why having good things when you can hack together shit with shell scripts.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostNo dumbass, when you write text in fields and press buttons on a webpage the information must be transmitted back to the server. How do you think it works when you press "post reply" button on this very forum for example? Does your PC shoot out a pidgeon or something?
What does this even mean?
If it wasn't for their involvement we would all be using Windows and Linux would still be a hobby OS like Redox or Haiku, now stop posting bs.
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Originally posted by Britoid View Post
So?
Just because Windows/macOS can do something, doesn't mean that Linux shouldn't do it.
How Windows handles things like roaming profiles is still far beyond what we can do on Linux.
Seems that systemd is an attempt to move whole-hog in that same direction.
Sit down sometime and try to enjoy Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, or RHEL Desktop. It's completely stifling and painful to the end user. That seems to be the end goal here. And yet, there's really no reason for it. We already have Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop and RHEL Desktop. If this type of consistent, easy to administer, miserable desktop experience is what you want, it already exists. It seems that the way Lennart describes his vision, that systemd is a solution looking for a problem.
I have a bad feeling that 5-10 years from now, we're going to be looking back at this entire systemd experiment as a complete waste of time and effort.
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