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I use Kubuntu. It is defintly not the best Distro. I am just used to it and too lazy to get used to another distro. My days as a distro jumper lie 15 years back…

Tbh though, I might switch to Debian stable whenever Trixie comes out.

My guess would be that in some countries the petition was just not well distributed. People won’t sign, if they never heard about it…

Also the title, maybe? I read ot and almost scrolled on, because i thought this would be some incel shit.

Kubuntu is just really well polished. It works really well and stable nowadays. Only downside is snap.

Also have a look at Linux MX. Also very well polished and some really good tools.

On a notebook it still can be troublesome. I know from very recent Asus TUF experience…

Fedora or Ubuntu. But I’d say the important part is that they probably provide all necessary drivers.

Ubuntu. But I think that will be almost everyones answer who started with Linux in the late-mid 2000s.

Edit: Oh wait. Might have been Knoppix to resuce some data from a broken windows installation.

Also darktable, rawtherapee, DigiKam and Krita. Not sure if those are suited to professional work, but for amateurs they are more than enough.

I remember when the steam machines where first announced and how excited I was. I am still excited. :)

Anything interesting in it? RT is blocked in Germany.

I work in public infrastructure, so at least I can comfort myself that I am trying to improve the lifes of everyone in my area. Still exhausting.

Lol to thinking that it was better. Capitalism was always terrible for normal people.

But many people just don’t have a lot of hobbies. Change is also scary for many people.

Yeah, I also have 5 hobbies and many more interests. I am only scared that I don’t have enough energy left in me once I retire.

Many things are possible with both products. But Kritas focus is on drawing/paiting and animation, meanwhile GIMPs focus is photo edititing.

Just try them out. I really love both.

20 years ago was 2005, not 1975… Cloud services started before that year. AWS started in 2002 and they weren’t the first.

But digital autonomy is not only about cloud services. EU countries were depending on US products with backdoor way before 2005.

Linux was mature at 2005. It is coincidentally even the exact year I started using Linux and also the year I personally first said, that we in the EU have to get independent from US owned operating systems. And I am not a genius.

2005 is funnily enough also the exact year Turkey started its project to get independent from US owned OSs, a project called Pardus. Sadly it pretty much failed, but the EU would have had different resources than Turkey on its own.

The tools are and were there to build the development on. The EU parliament should have started this 20 years ago. They rather took the sweet deals and we got to deal with corrupt software developed by corrupt developers (I don’t mean you, but your employer).

Lol, that you think that this is just laziness. Some people got some very sweet deals. Just have a look at the LiMux project. Microsoft is really good at this; goole and co. won’t be that much worse at it. They know how to influence the right people.

I am sooo xxxx pissed. The EU had all the time in the world and all incentive imaginable to develop an “EU-OS” and an “EU-Office”. Linux and other FOSS software was always there to build upon. And with EU founding it could have been an easy solution, making the world a better place in the process.

But instead so many xxx politicians rather made some nice deals…

Now we reap what the EU parliament did.

But if they were doing Asahi Linux for fun as a hobby, and if it isn’t fun anymore for a variety of reasons, then you really can’t blame them.

I have 0 knowledge about this project, so my statement here is just a general statement.

But if a developer collects donations for promising something, then this is not just “for fun”, but they do have a moral obligation to try doing a good job.

It seems they overfullfilled their obligations (but all I know about it, are the words of the developer). So, as said above, this is a general statement.

edit: lol you guys are funny, but maybe read my comment. I talked about “doing his best” and about “things they promised”. You really think it is okay to say “I will try project A, I need donations” and then go on a holiday with the donated money and do nothing else? Do you thing this attitude will get people to donate anything?

I mean, I don’t like Abunimah and clashed with him on twitter before (I think it was on Syria). But calling him an “islamist” is just pure bigotry. Bullshit vilifying over-generalisation is why islamophobe fascists are on the rise in Europe. The term “islamist” has become utterly meaningless. “Oh, he is brown and I don’t like him? He is an ISLAMIST!”

Used to do that when I was working in science. I also kinda loved it. Just interesting to intimately experience how people thought back in the 80s. There are surprisingly many Fortran 77 libraries still in use today (they can be called from modern Fortran code).