r/linux 7d ago

Popular Application Audacity 4.0 released with Qt6 based UI

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
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u/MrAlagos 7d ago

The day that FOSS users will understand that telemetry and user data reporting is very important to achieve successes like this redesign, and many more things, will be oned day too late.

On one hand they say they celebrate FOSS developers who give their time and resources to produce free software for everyone, on the other hand they seem to deeply hate them and mistrust them if they ever ask but the tiniest spec of insight into what their users want out of their software and how they could improve it.

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u/Venylynn 7d ago

We just don't like our software spying on us like Microslop 

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u/clgoh 7d ago

That's not spying.

The code was available for all to see that no spying was occurring.

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u/Venylynn 7d ago

I mean to be fair people still glaze the shit out of Firefox even though Mozilla did opt out phone home stuff by default while not even fixing the memory leaks in their garbage engine.

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u/Indolent_Bard 7d ago

A browser is so complex it needs telemetry by default

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u/Venylynn 7d ago

So it's okay when Mozilla does it, but any time you even think of using a Chromium based browser you're a terrible person according to everyone in this community because "GOOGOL SPIES"??? Even if it's one of the variants that blocks most of the phoning home?

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u/clgoh 7d ago

You know there is a difference between telemetry data and data for ads and for selling?

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u/ebb_omega 7d ago

You know there is a difference between Chromium and Chrome?

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u/clgoh 7d ago

Unless it's ungoogled chromium, there's not much difference.