XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-13 5:11 a.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:06:57 +0000, Xavier Jones wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:26:21 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I wonder how they’re going to do that. Buy up and shut down all   
   >>> competing projects? Drive them out of the market by forcing users away   
   >>> from them? Deny them rights to use Free software? How?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> How?  You really should bone up on the technical aspects of GNU/Linux.   
   >   
   > Back atcha. Linux is all about choice. Learn that. Memorize it. Tattoo it   
   > on your knuckles, or something.   
      
   The choice between Wayland and X11 (oh wait, they just made that choice   
   for us by killing off X11, didn't they?), the choice between Flatpak and   
   Snap, the choice between deb and rpm, the choice between C and Rust, the   
   choice between Q and GTK, etc..   
      
   In the end, the only thing that should matter to the user is the choice   
   between usability and compromise. Windows offers you usability,   
   stability and a wealth of security whereas Linux offers you a generous   
   dish of compromise. Want to use OPAL hardware encryption? Linux will do   
   that, if you don't mind sacrificing wake from suspend. Want to play your   
   games? Linux will run them for you if you don't mind constantly tweaking   
   Steam in the hope of getting 2/3 the FPS you get in Windows. Want to   
   ensure that you can switch from the discrete GPU to the integrated one?   
   Linux will do that for you if you don't mind logging off every time you   
   switch. It's a set of compromises to use an operating system that has   
   now been overtaken by demon-possessed social justice clowns like Joel   
   Crump who will gladly defame developers as Nazis because they didn't toe   
   the tline.   
      
   >> By providing only Wayland the popular distros will essentially prohibit   
   >> all the dozens of legacy window managers, some of which date back to the   
   >> 1990s.   
   >   
   > Linux is all about choice. Who says a distro has to be “popular”? Nobody   
   > can force users to use a particular distro.   
      
   There is definitely choice. Windows and MacOS offer you a standard   
   three-course meal whereas Linux gives you a choice of rotting fruits,   
   vegetables and nuts and sour milk.   
      
   --   
   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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