Nice article! Are you the author? If so, I’d like to give you a suggestion: the part about the deepin Linux story and technical background is interesting enough to be its own article. That way, it would be more findable on web searchers and probably help a lot of people who look for information on it, which is a bit scarce in english.

5 years already? Shit, I’m old.

Gnu can be used to describe the gnu project, the gnu license or the gnu coreutils. In this context, they mean that Linux by itself isn’t enough to be the a free desktop, and needs the gnu software to be the system they care about. (There can be controversies on whether gnu is needed or not, since it’s possible to create a distro without the coreutils, but let’s not get you confused right now)

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And no, I can’t simply stop using or ask friends to move to an alternative. I’m from Brazil and that thing is so popular and mainstream, that even stores or public services use it.

Just this week, I had to report an animal abuse case to the authorities, and the official communication channel I had to use was through whatsapp.

It’s sad to see how dependent of a single proprietary service for something so important we allowed ourselves to become…

But still good reasons, anyway.

That’s amazing.

Here in Brazil, we had the government encouraging free software in the 2000s, but the projects and policies were all abandoned.

And to think we could have a similar adoption to yours today… sigh…

Back then, people didn’t understand how such projects give benefits in a long timeframe, and wanted immediate results, something impossible.

Even more important is to see the windows downtrend. We need competition, keep it going!

I feel the same. I can’t recommend it to anyone anymore.

Such definitions are becoming more and more complicated. I think we should standardize a name for the family of systems we use, or it will become uglier and uglier.

Recently, I had to write an academic work in the area, and an entire section was dedicated to explaining this controversy and defining what kind of system I was talking about, so that the work is reproducible.

Everything adds a little. Another thing happening are the newer Windows versions requiring stupidly high minimum requirements, pushing people with older machines into alternatives.

I joined the community before the 1% mark. It has been such a nice journey.

I agree. Perhaps I got confused when reading the other comment.

Small distros aren’t good ones for beginners, because support plays a great role into they first experiences.

But how are new and small distros going to grow if no one uses them?

My advice is to experiment with distros you find interesting, but not on your main devices.

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Ouch.

As interesting as the technology is, it was extremely overhyped and attracted the worst kind of people, who only wanted to gret rich quick".

The amount of crypto projects today is absurd. The scalability problems aren’t solved yet, but people keep pushing their “revolutionary” coins.

We reached a state where even technology enthusiasts and the ones who like the idea of decentralized money became weary of the blockchain environment.

The confusion element.10/10 well done meme.

Well, the last human will have no one to pass the problem to, and will have to kill 2^(human population - 1), which will cap to the entire population.

I feel the same. That one is, indeed, a new dilemma, instead or just a joke or simple variation.

Just checked their website and it seems like they’re using debian sid packages. What’s the difference between using siduction and plain debian sid, besides having a preconfigured desktop?

I used to avoid debian due to past trouble with outdated packages, but I just found out that debian+flatpak provides a nice user experience, with a stable system and up-to-date user apps.