My comment is mostly a reflection of people who are not project maintainers. FOSS users are known to be insufferable bunch. We tend to want to crucify people who are trying something different (just see the comments in this thread, for example). The ”community” is toxic, as the kids say.

A dime a dozen in FOSS it seems.

Not really into fungi or old free software fogies so I guess I’d have to go with traitor.

Miguel also developed Xamarin and Mono (his company was acquired by Microsoft).

RMS labeled him as “Traitor to the Free Software Community” which has to be some kind of badge of honor, lol

Ok, well - there’s the community support section as well. I’ve been on Debian since 1997 so I’m probably not the best person to give detailed advice on this.

Good luck!

Not sure why you felt like you had to have LLM write your post, but each to their own…

Ubuntu and Fedora are the officially supported distros. So go with either of them. https://frame.work/linux

Seems Bazzite, Arch, Nix and Mint are top of the “community supported” distros. https://frame.work/laptop16?tab=linux

Pro: It does what I need an OS to do. Mostly, I need it to manage my hardware devices and staying out of my way.
Con: It’s a pain in the ass when it occasionally decides to stop managing my hardware devices and gets in my way.

What do I miss from Windows: Nothing. I’ve been using Linux since 1997. Back then Win95 was absolute shitshow. Idk what it is now. I don’t much care.

I don’t. I’ve been running Debian since 1997.
From what I read on the Internets, lot of gamers seem to like Bazzite.

Just try it out for a bit. If you don’t like it, switch back. That’s it. It’s not one of lifes major decisions.

Yes, it’s by design. You should probably read this https://mullvad.net/en/browser/mullvad-browser

being shaken down by Proton to pay even more money

Obviously you’re free to do as you please and its not an airport, you don’t have to announce your departure. But there’s no such thing as free service. Posting angry tirades seems counter productive.

I’d recommend self-hosting. Then you don’t have to worry about privacy, getting data hijacked or getting ripped off by sudden cost increases.

A strange game. Only winning move is not to play.

You are correct about the awareness part. Sometimes I forget that people make tech choices a big part of their identities (like being an “Apple user”) and fixing problems becomes a social cost, more than a technical or privacy choice.

While I always love a good privacy tantrum and throwing your toys out of the pram, I don’t really get why there has to be a public announcement of ”switching”.

But I guess it’s his blog, so whatever. Wish him the best of luck with the new HP 2-in-1. Hope he remembered to turn off all the tracking features in his Ubuntu.

It’s a fool’s errand unfortunately. Users stay in spaces because their friends and social circles are there. It doesn’t really matter how shitty the platform becomes. The social cost of moving is just too high.

The solution is interoperability and some regulation. Unfortunately we have neither. All you can do is inform your mom about the dangers and teach her to recognise propaganda and abuse.

I tend to agree. We won’t have any “content creators” because it’s so hard to monetize fedi - and that’s a good thing! Instead we have people who post stuff they like and are interested in. It’s far better system. No ads, no “influencing”.

However, it would be great if we could create a better model for sharing hosting costs somehow - bandwidth and servers are not cheap when serving video. Donations work to an extent, but it’s always a shaky system based on kindness of select few.

I know. I meant it as a potential model for income (a platform owned by creators collective), it was just an example

Surely the ability to pay for things exists already in many forms/platforms.

But one thing that’s missing is central financing from the platform itself. The “big tech” is running wild with advertising money and this is what fuels the rapid growth.

Things like Nebula seem to work (creator owned business that offers paid subscriptions), but I’m not sure how many Nebula-exclusive creators there are, I have a feeling most of them publish stuff on YouTube as well.

Mastodon and Lemmy communities work on donations, but most of them just trundle along barely covering hosting costs.

I guess, in theory, it would be possible to create a PeerTube/Loops server that monetizes everything with ads, but I’m a bit skeptical of that unless you have very deep start-up VC money behind you to get you off the ground.

We’ve had micropayment/-donation sites like Flattr, but it never took off for real.

I think the core problem is trying to make people to pay for the content/service/membership. Most don’t. I don’t think that would change even if the option was integrated into platforms.

Apology would be extremely surprising. Both of the main lemmy devs are well know hard-core tankies.