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It's still awful. The only devices I own that would give me a reliable time, would then be my phone, laptop, desktop, and maybe my TV. My microwave, oven, thermostat, alarm clock, car, watch, grandfather clock, etc would all be wrong.

You would wreak unmeasurable havoc across the target country.

I went from an A52 5G to a S25+ (3 years between the two models). The S25 is infinitely nicer to use. The screen is usable in direct sunlight. OneUI is noticeably smoother. The camera is way better (like, way, way better, in both good and poor lighting conditions). Background apps don't close as frequently. Heavy social media apps perform more smoothly.

Industries cannot be "laissez-faire". Economies, or systems of governance, can be laissez-faire.

Governments around the world have let these industries do whatever they want with almost zero oversight and almost zero repercussions for anything. For decades. These companies and industries do whatever they want. Its only in the last few years that a couple of governments have finally start push back a teeny tiny bit.

Are you claiming that the tech industry wasn't bound by intellectual property laws until recently?

Okay that's not what ordinary people like GP's dad are envisioning. Normal people are envisioning either: "wow I can buy a Tesla and it can drive me around!!" or a macroview "wow in the future Elon Musk is going to make self-driving cars so good that nobody will have to drive!".

We are discussing "normal people thoughts", not market sentiment.

No, sorry. By and large, when people criticize RMS for his behavior, they aren't saying "RMS being deeply associated with Open Source makes it harder for me to convince my boss to get the company to switch to X FOSS software or donate to Y project". The Open Source side of things is way bigger than RMS now. He's inconsequential to their world.

No, just about everyone critiquing RMS's behavior is saying that it negatively affects his own movement. That it makes it more difficult to advocate for Free Software, that it diminishes the FSF.

Well, it is absolutely true, for their cause, not his.

You have it backwards. Open Source is so much bigger than Free Software, that it's not even funny. The Open Source people are not scared of RMS affecting a movement widely accepted in almost every major tech company.

Framework Laptop 16 11 months ago

That's close to double the repair cost. No warranty, since Aliexpress. Probably no options for non-US English keyboard replacements. And I would be very surprised if that keyboard replacement was still available for purchase on Aliexpress in 5 years.

That's the sort of statement that remains extremely rude even if you try and prefix it with "I don't mean to be rude".

Omarchy Is Out 11 months ago

Nix is not competition. Nix is not attracting thousands and thousands of new, young Linux users and potential future contributors like Arch+Hyprland are.

Omarchy Is Out 11 months ago

Yes. Hyprland has burnt bridges with many of the classic/pre-existing Linux dev communities. Amongst other things, the main developer was banned from freedesktop.

But they have a very, very large user base, which means lots of contributors - especially young, first-time-FOSS/Linux contributors. In a way, Hyprland has partially done what Linus was hoping to do by adding Rust to the kernel (attract the next-generation of young developers). And they have an active BDFL - no "led by committee" issues.

Omarchy Is Out 11 months ago

That's... surprising. GNOME and Nix has very contrasting philosophies.

Anyways, Hyprland is primarily driven by the Arch side of things, considering that:

* there are way more Arch users than Nix users

* Arch is much more trendy amongst non-developer/Linux users.

* Arch is easier to setup and use - less friction

* Arch is more popular in the unixporn reddit/YouTube world, which is where Hyprland gained much of its popularity

* the Hyprland developer uses Arch, and has recently started selling customized dot files, advertised as "supported on Arch- based and Fedora distributions."

Nix users are simply not a driving force in the Linux userland world.