The Bazzite drama is so fucking funny to me actually.
This is exactly what I would expect would happen to a proprietary "gamer" distro that uses Reddit/Discord as its primary way of communication.
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17These guys are all incredibly incompetent and don't know shit about computers or programming.
All they know is how to package a bunch of a proprietary shit together "for convenience".
Other distros could do this too but they don't because it sucks.
@SuperDicq what distro there is that can replace bazzite (i.e. with boot-to-steam and other similar niceties)
boot-to-steam and other similar nicetiesNiceties? Why would I want my computer to boot into a proprietary DRM platform? If I wanted that I would've just bought a gaming console.
@SuperDicq you don't want but i do
@hj@shigusegubu.club There is no point in having a free operating system if all you're going to do is launch Steam and play proprietary games. Just buy a Nintendo Switch instead.
@SuperDicq point is having ability to modify everything and be able to play anything.
@hj@shigusegubu.club But you can't modify anything on these types of distros.
@SuperDicq yes you can
@hj@shigusegubu.club All the proprietary software they have installed with you can't.
@SuperDicq for steam there is decky, everything else you can modify as in normal linux distro.
@hj@shigusegubu.club For a gaming OS the proposition of "everything except the things that the user actually meaningfully interacts with" is essentially nothing.
@SuperDicq what?
@hj@shigusegubu.club You interact mostly with the steam client and its games on a gaming OS like this. You can't modify those.
@SuperDicq you can modify steam and its UI with decky. You can install mods on games.
@hj@shigusegubu.club That's a very limited form of modification. It's like saying Windows is free software because it allows me to set a wallpaper. You need it's source code to make real modifications.
@SuperDicq @hj adobe photoshop is more freedom respecting than gimp because it’s more usable for creating art.
Actual opinion by a talker at a previous fosdem
Actual opinion by a talker at a previous fosdem
@sun@shitposter.world @hj@shigusegubu.club FOSDEM is 50% free and 50% open source.
There's a lot of shit takes at FOSDEM but if you actually go there and choose to hang out with the people from the FSF and/or various GNU projects represented there you won't have to deal with that.
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@SuperDicq @hj @sun There's a lot of shit takes at FOSDEM, but if you actually go there and choose to hang out with the people not from the FSF and/or various GNU projects represented there, you won't have to deal with that.*
@SuperDicq @sun i just wanna hangout with pleromabros, dunk and dab on mastodon and get drunk
@hj@shigusegubu.club @sun@shitposter.world That's too, there's a lot of fedi people at FOSDEM too. The XMPP people are great too.