Nice article! Are you the author? If so, I’d like to give you a suggestion: the part about the deepin Linux story and technical background is interesting enough to be its own article. That way, it would be more findable on web searchers and probably help a lot of people who look for information on it, which is a bit scarce in english.

5 years already? Shit, I’m old.

Gnu can be used to describe the gnu project, the gnu license or the gnu coreutils. In this context, they mean that Linux by itself isn’t enough to be the a free desktop, and needs the gnu software to be the system they care about. (There can be controversies on whether gnu is needed or not, since it’s possible to create a distro without the coreutils, but let’s not get you confused right now)

But still good reasons, anyway.

That’s amazing.

Here in Brazil, we had the government encouraging free software in the 2000s, but the projects and policies were all abandoned.

And to think we could have a similar adoption to yours today… sigh…

Back then, people didn’t understand how such projects give benefits in a long timeframe, and wanted immediate results, something impossible.

Even more important is to see the windows downtrend. We need competition, keep it going!

I feel the same. I can’t recommend it to anyone anymore.

The thing with grapheneos is that it’s not available to anyone. For example, pixel devices are extremely overpriced here in brazil. So, the best we can do is something like lineageos or /e/.

Such definitions are becoming more and more complicated. I think we should standardize a name for the family of systems we use, or it will become uglier and uglier.

Recently, I had to write an academic work in the area, and an entire section was dedicated to explaining this controversy and defining what kind of system I was talking about, so that the work is reproducible.

Everything adds a little. Another thing happening are the newer Windows versions requiring stupidly high minimum requirements, pushing people with older machines into alternatives.

I joined the community before the 1% mark. It has been such a nice journey.

I agree. Perhaps I got confused when reading the other comment.

Small distros aren’t good ones for beginners, because support plays a great role into they first experiences.

But how are new and small distros going to grow if no one uses them?

My advice is to experiment with distros you find interesting, but not on your main devices.

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Ouch.

I agree, just like debian package statistics

They’re discussing adding it, with a opt-out option.

Historically, copyright laws were created as means to protect publishers, and not authors. There was a shift towards protecting the authors, but the entire structure is still biased.

In other words, we never really had a system that protects author’s interests and incentives them to create more.

Having more people access content IS in the best interest of authors, because it makes them more renowned. So, if a system is based on restricting reproduction, it’s protecting publishers.

But what alternative dobwe have? We never actually developed a consistent alternative, and, in a way, people are still experimenting. It’s not likely that we will find a solution that fits all forms of creative works.

The confusion element.10/10 well done meme.

When I started using the internet, it was a shock, because I got in contact with people from different places and realized how poor I am :(

Even today, I get cultural shocks here and there. Just this week, someone mentioned what they consider the bare minimum specs for a phone they consider to be viable for simple usage, and guess what? My phone doesn’t have half of these specs.

K-9 on android and the provider’s web client on desktop, through Ferdium.