Fair points but I still think there's one "desktop" project they host that should not only be supported and get fundings, but be one of their top priorities: Servo.
I think it's crucial not only for the Linux desktop but for the future of the open web. It's has the potential to be a great web renderer engine (it's built atop Rust) and, with good support and development, in the middle-long haul it could be a serious, community-driven alternative to the hegemony of Chrome/Chromium.
After Mozilla ditched it due to the abhorrent administration they had, it went to The Linux Foundation. Afaik there's no more paid people working on it nor working on it full time as it was when it was under Mozilla. With its enormous funding it's insane that Servo has to look out for its own fundings.
I got to know Linux back in 2006 in a hackathon-type-of-thing at uni and they gave me a Ubuntu 5.10 CD and my jaw dropped with the cube animation thing.
Ended wiping my hard drive trying to install it, finally could install it, tried XFCE for a time, went back to GNOME, was tired of Ubuntu and tried Gentoo and somehow could install it, with the GNOME3 drama moved to KDE, considered FreeBSD for a moment just to realize pkg/pkgsrc is absolute shit compared to Portage.
Oh and it seems KDE went back with the cube for Plasma 6! Alas it's still masked in Gentoo and who knows when it would be ready, but it's a bit great I'm not the only one for that cube nostalgia.
I got the 1ii. It's still rock solid (maybe the battery life is a bit hurt, but everything else is going flawless) but yes, the 2 year software support is simply ridiculous.
I ended installing LineageOS - can't say it's better to keep going with Android 11 or going custom ROM for every case, but I don't regret it.
That 'it's still rock solid' is the main reason my previous phone was a Sony (Z1) and decided to got another one from them - their hardware quality is just superb. Used my Z1 for seven years and it worked great all the time - until shit happened and fate decided I had to get another one.
Haven't used it but as a graphic designer I can't see myself using it. It seems it's great as a LaTeX alternative, but that's precisely the issue I have with it - it follows the same model as LaTeX where it offers some 'standard' document designs (which cover some popular but specific needs) and every little thing needed that differs from those needs a third party plugin. I'd wish it had followed the ConTeXt model in which everything is more centralized (and, imho, powerful) and the need for third party plugins is quite rare .
Not sure if you're still following Luwx/Lightly, but there's a fork of it - boehs/Lightly (though for what I've seen the changes it has had have been imperceptible).
Using any DE be like: (graph.org)
A criticism of the linux foundation expenses and why you shouldn't support them (www.youtube.com)
nuclear take: (lemmy.world)
Did you choose for Linux for freedom or ...
for gratis or other reasons ?...
10 years of Skeptic to Septic Pipeline (lemmy.world)
What is the most beautiful song you've ever heard?
Sony Xperia 1 VI, Xperia 5 VI and Xperia 10 VI all rumoured to gain improved software support over predecessors (www.notebookcheck.net)
Why?? (lemmy.world)
what's your opinion on typst? (github.com)
Announcing Brise theme (carlschwan.eu)
Brise theme is yet another fork of Breeze. The name comes having both the French and German translations of Breeze, being Brise.
Julian Alaphilippe @ 2023 Strade Bianche
Cipollini with his antipasto platter
Fignon and Urs Freuler, 1990 Paris Roubaix
Johnny Hoogerland’s legs scarred from his battle with barbed wire at 2011 Tour de France
Shadow Gallery - Mystery (www.youtube.com)
Ricardo Ovalle, at the verge of collapsing, being fed by his soigneur. 1959 Vuelta a Colombia
Lion of Flanders - Koppenberg
Zdeněk Štybar
2023 UAE Tour. Via Getty Images
Greg Lemond with the rainbow jersey at the Z team
Elisa Longo Borghini bicycle, by Trek
Merckx in the prologue of the 1975 Paris-, at Fontenay-sous-Bois, riding a DeRosa
Colnago specs for Eddy Merckx's bicycle for the 1970 Tour de France
Fignon on the pave
Bernard Hinault