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It's very fun sub but this is egregious

The future Redhat wants for us. Will GNU/Linux have it's savior, so I can make a lower panel?

It's disgusting consumer behavior while Gnu/Linux in it's roots is immaculate academic conception born in mind of Torvalds (who after all turned out to be a sellout to corporate) and Stallman, and not ment for brainless mass consumption.

It enables Redhat, XDG and other Big Linux Lobby cronies to continue their sick depravity of puting a next leash of corporot framework standards on mainstream distros. The general integration of systemd stack into linux fundamentals then makes it harder for anyone to not use it, to look for some alternative, and homogenises the ecosystem.

Unfortunetely developers likes to cater to this mindset for some reason, and that gave gnu/linux it's worst diseases so far like appimage, flatpak, snap, modern desktop environments that pull shitton of systemd dependencies. It's a staged takeover by Big Linux Lobby that requires 1) developer of slopsoftware 2) a Dunnig-Kruger "power user" who enjoys slop. Those power users will then direct linux newbies to sloppy distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Arch and it forks, that uses systemd. Instead of newbie getting interested in the heart of linux system, through linux advertising on social media they are encouraged to waste time on "ricing" and configuring games. That's the image of gnu/linux distributions, as "highly customizable" shown in contrast to "uncustomizable" Windows. This is a flawed comparison as Windows is explicitely a closed source loosely customisable product, and also it redirects the newbies attention from customising lower level aspects of the system. New users are infantilised and recommended "distros that just works" or "easy distros". Coincidentally, those distros also uses systemd stack... This general mindset of making distros supposedly easy to use for "Windows refugees" led to creation of absolutely the most vile disgusting slopdistros of all time, like zorin or endavouros which feature PAID VERSIONS and brings absolutely NO MEANINGFULL INNOVATION into gnu/linux. This is a complete joke. Ritchie, Torvalds and Stallman didn't bust their asses just so a couple of incompetent devs can make such paid shitware for people that don't knwo any better yet. That's what we get for enabling this mindset.

By promoting "easy distro", you are silently enabling the homogenised Redhat tainted FOSS ecosystem and it keeps growing. This has to stop, and linux community as a whole would do themslves much more good by focusing on lower level aspects of OS freedom, rather then trying to make sure "linux gets popular" or wether "it's the year of linux desktop". "Linux desktop" is a fake term invented by Redhat and XDG to push their framework of xdg-desktop-utils. Most bare bones linux distribution has the potential to be used for daily work aka "desktop" provided it can run X11 and dependencies for office suite. But Big Linux Lobby also pushes for inclusion of their XDG trash, dbus, pulseaudio, as it supposedly ameliorates the desktop experience. Userland utilities of low and high level should be as configurable at deployment as kernel is, and we should push distro maintainers to incirporate more choices into OS deployment process rather then less, more configurable scripts and less Calamares installer toddler-GUI stupidity.

I've got so many responses to my earlier post lamenting that modern linux isn't free, since many important components were originally developed at Redhat, and it's hard to change them, and puch the resulting chimeric OS into something coherent:

"Uhh what are you on about? Linux is free, you can just code what you want!"

So I need many years of working experience in C and UNIX

just to escape corporot bloated software,

on an os that was supposedly "free open source software",

that fanboys on Reddit can't just stop yapping about how "free" it is.

Absolute cinema.

Even if you don't want to create your own udev and logind, you are in for a baaad time. Gentoo mdev unofficial (!) tutorial mentions using it is a choice that has serious consequences (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev). You want a browser? Tough luck, even firefox is riddled with redhat and XDG trash that has to be ommited if one wants a minimal system (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Firefox#gtk.2B:3_pulls_in_D-Bus). Use of low level redhat software obviousely carries assumptions to userspace. This is poisoning linux system from the head.

Such situation should not have happend in the first place, if FSF or other FOSS entities were serious about stopping Redhat and XDG corporate lobbysts. It was already lost when Debian chose to go with systemd and the rest of it's stack, causing a great brain drain of devs starting Devuan project. Your system is not free, if you cannot easily replace some software, and mind you modularity is a core aspect of UNIX philosophy . A free system should be as tweakable as it can be. Stability is for corporate, it's just an excuse to not try something out of the standard. For home users on their private PC, is the freedom that counts most.

I'm sure a solution exists. A promised land of an OS. Libre kernel, x11libre, mdev, manual no suid, rootles Xorg without seat management, maybe evfen with musl instead of libc, no dbus, no polkit and all stupid PAM stack, no XDG userspace poison, no any higher level bloat like pulseaudio. It's just hard to make it. A trurly free Os would be one that will allow it's user to configure not only high level software at deployment time, like installed packages, what DE you can choose - this is BS. A trurly free OS would compile your choices of ALL the components from source, after checking wether assumptions hold up. An ALFS wrapper, rather then some "distro" that will always be opinionated one way or another. The concept of distros failed. Gnu/Hyperbola is closest to instant freedom OS, but it's highly opinionated and actually plans to port BSD utilities. LFS, a metadistro, is obviousely a fine concept, BUT, the book itself is terrbile as they use SYSTEMD UDEV in a SYS V book!!! Bullshit. Gentoo is second best mainstream linux you can use but I already linked why it's not quite perfect. Devuan, Void uses elogind and eudev which are NOT PERFECt, since those are udev and logind just pulled away from dependence on rest of systemd stack, and therefore it's stil; the Redhat virus infecting linux.

I can't understand why people are not taking this seriousely enough. If the community does not interest itself with trurly free systems, but keep on this stupid "I just want an OS that works" mentality, along with promoting shitty systemd distros like Ubuntu, Mint or Arch to newbies (not to even mention Zorin or Arch forks which are the worst low effort linuxslop not even deserving firther delve into why is that) we will be using systemd-gnud/systemd-vmlinuz by 2040. It will come one day. And you won't be ready. Poettering will be laughing all the way to the bank with his Big Linux Lobby buddies.

Windows LTSC and editing couple reg keys is... le bad. Just wait until you hear what you need to attain true freedom on Gnu/Linux... oh sorry, Freedesktop.org called, it's now systemd-vmlinuzd.

When Redhat creates binary behemoths drying out alternatives, it's GOOD.

When MS creates binary behemots drying out alternatives, it's BAD.

Mkay?

Users on rolling release distros noticed a new folder in their home directory, out of the blue.

~/Projects is ment to standardize saving directory for IDE, CAD, etc. projects.

"Don't like the new Projects directory? Just delete it." says itsfoss.com article.

Did they just... proved a mainstream cross-distro feature (XDG directories) is opt-out and not opt-in, like in... eeevil Winblows?

So we have Windows like behavior of introducing a shitty novelty, based on some lousy 11 years old (!) request from someone who couldn't mkdir a place for their IDE themselves.

I inspect many logs daily and would get a heart attack if I seen a directory I didn't expect in home of all places. But that's XDG logic. Make a user choose a directory to save projects on computer they own? Allow users to run unstandardised Gnu/Linux? Inconcievable!!!1 XDG and Redhat to save the day, and standardise supposedly "free operating system"!

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