Holy moly. I went through the ENTIRE article, and just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, it just kept on getting worse, and worse, and worse, and worse.

It seems like it. But for me, it’s also about the fact that it was offered by RedHat engineers, almost as if saying “Let’s not forget we have some control over Fedora, whether you like it or not”. And there’s other small issues such as the (in my opinion) terrible Anaconda installer still being used over Calamares, among other issues. The BEST thing that Fedora has done and that ALL self-respecting user-friendly distros MUST do is offer their version of the Fedora USB Tool (I think it was called Fedora USB Writer or something like that).

I understand, but maybe I’m not. And opt-out telemetry, while I understand their arguments, is not something I agree with.

Yeah, there’s this very obscure match-3 game I wanted to play because of nostalgia. The series peaked with 3 and 4 (and those are the ones we played on the family computer circa 2015) and worked perfectly on Windows. Now 3 works perfectly (in terms of compatibility) but 4 was better (in terms of gameplay). 4 is marked as borked, last I checked. For anyone wondering, it’s The Treasures of Montezuma series.

I mean, if you’re a distrohopper, you might be changing stickers every few days or weeks.

Good call on the Fedora KDE devs, but if the Telemetry proposal is approved, I will never even consider any Fedora spin again.

While I wouldn’t switch to it (I’m not the target audience, I have very specific needs and workflow, currently only truly accomplished on NixOS), this is one of the worthwhile projects, it seems. A lot of distros are just Debian, Ubuntu or something else with a DE slapped on top, some customisations and Calamares, but this has something more to offer, and I respect that. OpenRC, focus on AppImage, and to a lesser extent immutability, are very rare, so it’s good to have a system that offers these. I think this has some compelling selling points, for example it’s the only non-systemd immutable distro I know of, and it’s also the only distro I know of that’s pushing AppImages. We need such uniqueness, and it should be mentioned more often, and should be celebrated.

like better manpages

I want them now! I want the better manpages! Has someone decided to create inproved manpages for Linux? I think this could be a great idea for a project or an organisation. Manprove, the organisation to improve Unix manual pages.

if you’re traveling, use a VPN

Is there a way to circumvent that? VPNs usually come with a speed decrease