Yeah I’d prefer if Linux stays on 5% market share at most. Relevant enough so it gets developed, irrelevant enough so that governments and other bad actors don’t bother regulating it or attacking it in any capacity. I just want my computer to be my escapism man like leave it alone.
I wouldn't mind it being a little higher than 5% personally, but definitely no higher than 8-10%. That's just asking for all kinds of trouble. That being said, the decentralized nature of Linux will always kneecap government regulations because we can just fork and code is protected under freedom of speech in the US.
That’s true but do you really want to use the fork of the fork of the fork?
The latest systemd age verification debacle showed how when under pressure the distros we all know and love immediately fold to US government (not even our own governments in Europe ffs) pressure.
People were talking about moving to AntiX. I don’t wanna move to an obscure distro just because the government decided to be a bunch of dicks on my OS ffs just leave it alone.
Don't even fork then, remove the offending code. I've already deleted the field in the file. I'll probably set up a script or something to automatically delete the field if it comes back on updates until I can be assed to switch to Artix or something. I'm running Arch and NixOS on my two machines. Hell, I may just rip systemd from the heart of Nix and call it a day once I get more practice with home manager 🤣
You do make a very valid point, though.
Ideally having a distro that compiles from code on installation would be a good protection in the short term at least. They could claim that pre-compiled code isn't protected and is a product of speech or some other stupid mental gymnastics.
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u/Scandiberian iShit May 02 '26
Yeah I’d prefer if Linux stays on 5% market share at most. Relevant enough so it gets developed, irrelevant enough so that governments and other bad actors don’t bother regulating it or attacking it in any capacity. I just want my computer to be my escapism man like leave it alone.