So China-ownership was better because it censored China-related stuff in China and didn’t care much about other themes in other countries. It is exactly what your colorful analogy means. The world isn’t black and white indeed:)

So… USA-ownership looks even worse than a Chinese one? :)

Launcher of a sane person.

I am not saying that. I am saying that diversity for the sake of diversity is done by a tiny amount of crazy kids. Only extremely rare “alternatives” are staying alive. Most people respect stability and use soft that is decades old(not old versions, but soft that was founded decades ago).

Isn’t part of being in the Linux culture to experiment with things, even if it’s just the window manager, settings, or particular apps?

Actually no. We proud that we can not to reinstall OS in decades. That we have /etc and ~/.config dirs. Linux from the user standpoint is very conservative. Everything that worked 20 years ago, still works. Just some things became more trivial in setup.

Of course we have some “civil wars” here and there, like PulseAusio, X Window, etc, but those are few and not very interesting to the end-user.

Because hiking is the goal for hikers, changing scenery is just to make things less tedious.

What’s the reason for changing distros? (Except of course for the distros that offer completely different approach like switching Debian-Gentoo-LFS might be of some interest)

Why did you try so many different distros? For me it was RedHat first, then I switched to Debian(because “no corporations” sentiment, technically RH was ok) somewhere 20 years ago and use it since then.

I believe we should find some more rude term for Android.

Nice attempt, actually. I am immune to such things, but it definitely should work on younger people.

LLMs are good for searching in technical documentation. And that’s it. They are barely usable outside this niche.

Stop using it for “humanitarian” purposes. It can’t be a psychologist, lawyer or anything else similar.

I prefer the “shit” term regarding Ubuntu :)

Stallman: Android-shmadroid. That’s why I always insist on “GNU/Linux” name, not just Linux.

I’m talking about laziness. And that stuff you named too.

Bloatness is just an excuse to avoid all the problems of installing a new program in Gentoo.

it’s a waste of time to argue with you

You’re correct. I believe at this moment I have heard the full specter of anti-LLM arguments and most of the are pathetic; and those few that are somewhat reasonable are not actually anti-LLM but against consumer practices (ragarding as companies who try to shovel-in LLMs to anything without any reason, and end-consumers as well, who use LLMs for the purposes it never was made for and where it is still completely ineffective)

Hysterical hatred? Not sure. Personal computers were welcomed, cars and planes too (planes were laughed upon, but never hated as far as I know)… Nah, I don’t think that every significant new technology is hated at the start.

“The way it is” is based on a huge statistics material. Claiming some future results without huge statistics material is called “prediction”.

The guy is just PRing on the anti-AI sentiment.

What I do not do is predict the future.

Ok.

Wow, this guy has found the way to make the situation even more idiotic. Almost mathematically ideal idiocy.

I would still like to see an explanation of why it is bad. Regardless of who will provide that explanation :)