@Gaywallet@beehaw.org is always lovely to have around~
No source in the linked post, so here’s the article and an archive which bypasses the paywall.
I’m not saying it’s difficult, but it’s a relatively shaky experience not meant for regular usage. They’re called “Testing” and “Unstable” for a reason. Sid requires you to watch your updates and be sure nothing fucky is happening…that’s a notable extra step to just using your system that not everyone wants to deal with.
I love Debian and all but use Fedora on most of my machines simply because for my use case of high spec gaming, up to date packages are all but required and using a system designed to be used that way is a much smoother experience than using the development version of a system not trying at all to cater to my needs.
Because Fedora tries harder than Debian to be an approachable and polished system out of the box. That, and if you need newer packages than what’s in Debian Stable then the experience is better on a distro like Fedora than making Testing or Sid work. Not to say that those options are bad, but depending on what you value Fedora might be closer to what you previously got out of Ubuntu than Debian.
What makes the “rules of the community” relevant here? Would you have no problem if the rules specifically disallowed your opinions?
Rules are guidelines and should always be loose, left up to human judgement and enforcement. If everything must be outlined with a specific rule, then you’re just inviting constant rules lawyering for the rest of time instead of effectively taking care of people who make your community worse.
I suggest reading On a technicality.
I find that conversation flourishes when you limit it to a certain degree. In spaces which are completely open and have a massive range of opinion, what you’ll find is mostly yelling at each other over broad talking points that everyone is already familiar with. After a while, nothing of interest comes out of the far left clashing with the far right all the time. But when you limit it, time can be spent doing other things than yelling at the dickhead on the other side who you have little to no overlap with and see as a dire enemy. You can talk about nuances in principles, differences in organizing, etc. It makes for richer, more interesting conversation.
That link’s blanket dismissal of the claim of whataboutism is short-sighted and bad, but this isn’t even a case of whataboutism. @Julianus literally said the US engaging in regime change is good in response to a challenge to the source of the article. Responding with atrocities committed by the US is as relevant as it gets.
They’ve been working to do just that with the checkboxes, but it’s still kind of half-assed and if you want a full normal experience you’re better off just enabling RPMfusion the normal way.
Re:MATE, I’m actually not sure why the changes haven’t been pushed upstream as the Ubuntu MATE developers have a ton of overlap with the core MATE team. I do know there have been efforts by the Ubuntu MATE devs to nudge other distributions to adopt relevant packages like the Ayatana indicators which were made for Unity and now are used in Ubuntu MATE which have gone ignored.
Regardless, for the end user who prefers MATE, the choice is kinda obvious.
I agree that Fedora or a proper rolling release would be a better choice, but re: using Ubuntu at all as a desktop user, there’s a few reasons. First of all, its install and setup process is absolutely painless. Fedora for example requires quite a bit of extra things out of the box. dnf isn’t configured very well, additional repositories aren’t enabled, it’s missing a ton of codecs, it won’t handle nvidia drivers automatically (though they’ve made that easier lately), etc. mostly as a result of its free software policy. Ubuntu has no qualms with delivering proprietary software and otherwise putting principles to the side if it makes the process smoother.
In addition to that huge one, the vast majority of answers you’re going to find when looking things up will be catered toward Ubuntu, it’s still common for projects to only provide .debs (though this has been made MUCH better since flatpak and appimage came around), or they might be familiar with it from work.
Depending on your preferred desktop environment they may have the best implementation of it. Ubuntu MATE is to MATE what Fedora is to GNOME, you’re not going to find a MATE experience half as good anywhere else. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same was true for lxqt or something.
I don’t think Ubuntu is one of the better distros and am more likely to nudge people toward Fedora, Debian, or Arch, but there’s definitely valid reasons to use Ubuntu.
I like it a lot. While in principle Matrix may have some important benefits, in practice it’s a dogshit experience and I have a hard time ever seeing it getting mass adoption even with the many refinements that have been coming down the line.
The way discord groups and manages channels is essential for the kind of community building that it allows, and Revolt copies it directly. Try to mimic that on Matrix or something similar and you’ll end up with a loosely connected mess.
4chan is still plenty popular and even somewhat tolerable depending on the board. It’s much much worse than it was before the 2016 American election cycle, but if you’re like me and attached to imageboards, you can do worse. Can also do better though, Lainchan has its problems but is much better in general.
Seems unlikely. This poster is certainly not gonna last since they’re clearly just trolling, but anti-vax posting isn’t going to be moderated and nutomic in particular has some personal stake in that. Not to equate that position with full on anti-vax shit, but they clearly want room for skepticism over vaccines even when it’s essentially baseless.
Glad to see another convert to Flatpaks, the turn toward 'em has done so much to make distro choice more than just “Debian / Ubuntu and if you want to use anything else, fuck you build everything yourself”. Even for projects that are large enough to be packaged basically everywhere, it’s nice having them lead the charge.
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It’s contextual. “Females” is often a slightly nicer way of saying “removed,” but it’s also often just a neutral term. I’d say the top comment from /u/frankaiden02 in that thread gets it right.