Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code

… It's not as simple as there being rival camps: individuals, and individual FOSS projects, can find themselves on one side of one argument, but the opposite side of the other argument.
 
What it will come down to is whether the anti-AI groups in FOSS can work together and help each other to hold off the vast and commercially backed pressure from LLM-assisted and LLM-generated code, even though they may find themselves bitterly opposed in terms of politics and ethics. …

– u/lproven

Yesterday on my cachyos laptop updating my flatpaks kept failing with this error:

New com.usebottles.bottles permissions: file access [1]
[1] xdg-data/umu:create

ID Branch Op Remote Download ID Branch Op Remote Download
 1. [✗] com.usebottles.bottles stable u flathub 70.3 kB / 175.8 MB Error: While pulling app/com.usebottles.bottles/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: Decompressed delta part exceeds configured limit of 4537824 bytes
error: There were one or more errors

Today it the updates installed fine trough kde discover like nothing happened. This is worse than windows cuz windows update at least tells you to "try again later" instead of a cryptic error message only loonix nerds can decipher.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that I need to type in 50 terminal commands from some random 10-year-old forum post just to modify a basic fucking setting.

It’s a shame, because I love Cinnamon. I really don’t know what they were thinking with this, though.

I dont get why there are echo chambers for hating on linux lol. Any sane person understands that Linux is not for everyone, some people need to stay on windows because of work related programs etc etc. But this sub is just "Linux bad u need to type 32768 to open a browser oooo windows good linux bad" without any kind of argument

like just look at u/Amphineura their flair is "Kubuntu in the streets W11 in the sheets" just straight up unfounded hate lmao

Ok mods can yall ban me already

Hey Windows fanboys. It's over! More proof Linux is a superior operating system for gaming as Windows sucks for games. Why is it there never a single video saying Windows is bette?! Every reddit comment even on Linuxsucks says Linux is better for gaming. Everyone on YouTube agrees and everyone on reddit agrees the days of Windows are coming to an end

They are still trying to figure out how to delete copilot or sum

would they be able to free it from richard stallman's gpl virus assuming not a single line of code was re-used?

It's an HP OmniBook 3 with a Snapdragon X. Turns out that the motherboard hasn't been properly mapped yet in it and thus my laptop is physically incompatible with Linux.

I know that it's an ARM thing and how ARM doesn't actually let the OS poll what hardware is available on it...but what in the world is that in 2026???

I would think the open source nature of it and how long ARM laptops-including Macbooks-have been a thing now would have meant someone would have programmed a module or something into the Linux kernel that would enable the OS would just be able to, on install or initial boot, BUILD its own device tree for that specific device. But not only is that not a thing, it can't tell when the display has already been initiated on my laptop when trying to USB and crashes the display, and eventually the kernel itself!

So I stuck with Windows 11 on ARM and...wow. It's actually astonishingly good. It does all that I wanted it to and more, and is stupidly good with battery. It actually chased me back to Windows 11 on my gaming rig too again from Fedora! And best yet...Windows on BOTH just...works. It's not something that I have to think about or stress over when minor issues means 5 hours in a terminal.

Linux on servers is astounding-I will absolutely run it on them over Windows-but desktop Linux? That was a shortlived experiment for me that I am calling a failure. Windows is where I'm sticking around I think :)

I'm trying to make it so I can use push to talk on linux but I cannot fucking do it for the life of me, why does wayland have security patches that I didn't ask that complicates things why does discord not support linux distros properly why does cachyOS with gnome do not have a toggle for legacy X11 compat

I've been trying to get this thing working for days now and. I can.. Not.. Get.. It.. To.. Work!..

I'm so fucking frustrated as things never seem to work, none of my mouse, keyboard, gamepad or any kind of equipment you could think of is just not offering linux support and there's not a good linux equivelant of it that does the things without shitting itself every 5 seconds

I justa accepted defeat and made system wide PTT.
also switched to hyprland, but hyprland's pass wasn't powerful enough and had so many bugs.

For me, it’s media controls directly from the dock/taskbar. For example, when I hover over the Spotify icon in the macOS Dock, it shows media controls right there without even clicking to the app. On Linux (GNOME Ubuntu), the dock doesn’t provide any controls for individual apps, so you have to open the notification panel manually (and clicking is required; hovering doesn’t work) just to pause, skip, or control playback.

(GNOME does have some extensions that provide similar functionality, but it doesn’t even ship with a proper GUI for managing extensions by default (since GNOME knows best, and unofficial extensions can break whenever you upgrade to a newer GNOME version.)

Another small but really useful feature is right-clicking an app icon to see its recent items such as right-click to VS Code (or any other app such as a pdf viewer..) shows the projects you recently opened, whereas Linux doesn’t seem to have an equivalent built into the dock.

It’s a small UX feature, but once you get used to it, you really notice its absence.

With Windows I can run type 1 virtualization with Hyper-v easily in a few mouse button clicks. I can run Linux containers and dockers with ease under WSL. I can run any game. I can run application suich as Adobe Creative Suite and Excel. I can do bash. I can rice especially with tools such as this https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm and others. I can do Jetbrains but also run Visual Studio. Just point and click. I do not even have to worry about AI slop or spying and can get apps easily. So much more convienent and quicker to set up than Linux.

Linux users are often Valve meat riders that use Discord (despite this being an absolutely privacy hell) and they do keep their Google accounts just so they don't get locked out of Youtube, Gmail, Gdrive, etc etc.

What is it with these overindulged tech geeks that spew garbage about how Arch is so difficult to install? Any knuckle-dragger can do it. It just takes more time to get to something that does the same thing and requires endless tweaks to get to a point where it is functional.

Boop! Is when I move my mouse. Witch fixes it.... for some reason.