Distributions of corporate origin such as Ubuntu, Leap, Fedora, etc., i.e. distributions that exist because there is a company supporting the development community. More specifically, is it more advisable to use a distribution supported by a company that contributes a large part of the system's development?
I use Lollypop and I love it. I would like it to have more information about the track being played. Which audio player do you recommend for Gnome that is in GTK4? Thanks
If you want technical support, of course you do. Just because a code is open source does not mean it should be free. Developers need to eat too.
Another issue is that there are distributions such as ZorinOS that charge money for the right to use a pro version, when in reality it is the same version that you can configure yourself and that ZorinOS belongs to a company, not a user community.
Indeed, I believe that the Fediverse is a paradise island where one can escape the noise created mainly by AI bots on centralised, proprietary social networks, but many users get a dopamine rush from eliciting an emotional response on the network, and that rush is provided by Reddit's algorithms.
I completely agree. To attract more users, you not only have to create higher quality content, but also content that elicits an emotional response from users, as they well know at Reddit.
On Reddit, it is bots that are constantly posting controversial topics. On Lemmy, fortunately, it is humans who can participate in more controversial discussions to attract more humans. For me, as a Linux and Firefox user, controversial discussions include comparisons between Windows vs Linux, Firefox vs Chrome, etc.
It's great if you know how to configure important system elements such as security and quick and easy system restoration in case of failure. If you don't know how or don't want to configure the system, it's better to use distributions such as Manjaro if you want to use an Arch derivative, as it's a distribution that has control over its repositories. I don't recommend using a distribution that doesn't have control over its repositories.
I believe that the main reason for recommending Linux, in my opinion, is because it is open source code that can be audited.
And the second reason is so that the EU can have greater digital and technological sovereignty.
Manjaro is a great distribution that has had its share of controversies in the past, but in my opinion, it has something essential: control over its own repositories.
I would not use any derivative distribution that does not have control over its own repositories, nor would I ever use a rolling distribution that does not have a system recovery system configured by default in case of failure. Manjaro has control over its repositories and Timeshift configured and ready to use as soon as the system is installed.
If Tumbleweed did not exist, I would probably be using Manjaro.
In my opinion, the best way to get started with Linux is still through Ubuntu, because I would never recommend distributions that do not have their own repositories, as is the case with many easy-to-use Debian derivatives.
My message does not say that FOSS project leaders are MAGA, but rather that there are increasingly more FOSS projects with MAGA leaders, such as Brave.
I’m gonna re iterate what I said about the FOSS community the first time I came across this.
As a whole FOSS has a nazi bar problem and it needs to be addressed.
That's what I think. Fascism and MAGA ideas are increasingly being introduced into FOSS projects through the leaders of those projects. The biggest example is Brave Software with Brendan Eich and Peter Thiel contributing money to Brave Software. Peter Thiel is a character who believes in a single world government using AI outside of any democracy.
It's great news that allows users to get SLE enterprise level code through Leap and with 2 years of community support. It also comes with the new modern Agama installer. No wonder more and more people are using openSUSE with the amount of new distributions the community is offering under the openSUSE project.
Distributions of corporate origin such as Ubuntu, Leap, Fedora, etc., i.e. distributions that exist because there is a company supporting the development community. More specifically, is it more advisable to use a distribution supported by a company that contributes a large part of the system's development?