32 - he/they - Alberta, Canada - Just a random retro gaming enthusiast, Linux user, and furry on the autism spectrum.
Don’t comply in advance, that’s what I say. Unfortunately, that’s what systemd is doing, and what archinstall, xdg-desktop-portal, and Freedesktop.org are on the verge of doing.
For the vast majority of people who don’t live in California, including myself, California law can go fly a kite.
You raise a very good point. systemd isn’t the only thing we should be bringing attention to. Everything in the Linux ecosystem that’s pushing for age verification/attestation should have attention brought to it.
The problem with btrfs subvolumes is that you have to use btrfs. I’m good with Ext4. It’s nice and reliable.
This is one of the beautiful things about open source. If the original devs do something stupid, the community can fork.
systemd
Dropped.
I’m planning to migrate my main desktop over to this distro. I was fairly happy with EndeavourOS for the last few years, but with systemd’s recent bullshit, I think it’s time I move on.
I’m pissed that systemd has made a change that paves the way for age verification, and is unwilling to go back on it. The change they added may not do much on its own, but I worry about future consequences.
Since it’s rare for large organizations and projects to go back on things like this, I’m considering moving my systems over to non-systemd distros. At the very least, I hope a fork without the userdb birthDate variable hits the AUR.
It had its place in 2015. It was my introduction to Arch-based distros. Nowadays, I use EndeavourOS.
I like Flatpaks. They integrate fairly well, they can be used on a variety of different distros, you can install them without root permissions, and they’ll often “just work”, even when the same apps installed through your system’s normal repos have issues.
However, if they have one significant drawback, it’s that they’re a pig on resources. They use a lot of storage, and when you’re on a resource-constrained system, they’ll use more RAM and generally run slower than apps installed from the normal repos. (inb4 anyone says “unused RAM is wasted RAM.”)
You have a point, but most normies aren’t even aware that an operating system is just a piece of software their computer runs that can be swapped out for a different piece of software. They see the OS as an integral, immutable part of the system… which of course is totally wrong, but that’s seriously how they see it.
The people you describe are a step higher on the food chain, so to speak. They definitely exist, and I think they make up the majority of people who are getting into Linux, but let’s not forget how little the average person knows or cares about technology works.
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