I use almost exclusively FOSS and I have monthly/annual contributions set up for various projects.

This takes me back to my childhood… My dad would take me to the fair and get me a deep fried router on a stick and a roll of cat5.

I would say this is fake and low quality, but the picture does say the Daily Sun so I can only be sure that it’s low quality.

The design is very human

No

Looks more like a stone to me.

As an autistic person I can promise you: Windows does not represent us.

KDE on the other hand…

So Kubuntu then?

The two I was specifically thinking about are SuSE and Canonical. There’s also Collabora and Nextcloud in the productivity systems space and plenty of others.

To expand on point 2, Europe is already home to two major competitors to Windows (one headquartered within the EU) as well as competitors in other fields, so they would also have an easier time (as a bloc) than many other places, who don’t have local competitors I nearly as good a position.

Like krita does?

Linux user: Hey I made a PowerShell script for you that’ll change the entry so you don’t ha… “advanced” Windows user: KEEP YOUR HACKER LOONIX AWAY FROM ME

Bloat! Who needs an editor 1000 times the size of their previous one?

Well yeah, they hadn’t managed to get past bananas in their self defense classes.

You sound surprised…

All I hope is that this means less drama.

I don’t use (or want to use) Apple silicon. I don’t have a personal stake in whether Linux runs well on it. But the drama we’ve seen recently is neither good for Linux as a whole nor good for these specific subsystems.

I do want to see more rust in the kernel, but not at the cost of harming overall kernel development. I want to see more rust in the kernel because I believe that, if done well, that step can make kernel development better.

Yeah that’s basically it for me. I have a collection of dev boards, old hardware and stuff other people were tossing out set up for a variety of purposes (Kubernetes clusters, two build farms, network boot, etc.). None of it is because I feel I “need” any of that for self hosting. In practice two old desktops with a bunch of drives would be perfectly capable of providing everything I need including redundancy. I have all that stuff because I’m learning and experimenting.

Holy Whataboutism Batman!

It’s actually okay to say that they’re right on some topics and wrong on others.

The SOC uses U-Boot to boot. The Imagination GPU is more of a problem, but there’s work underway to get an open source driver fully working. I’ve got my own kernel and mesa running on multiple dev boards and, while I can’t run a full desktop with mesa on that PowerVR driver yet, I have been able to render some basic things with it. I can, however, install a 6.6 kernel and some userspace binaries to get full acceleration ITMT.

This isn’t really ready for standard consumer use anyway. The point of this is basically as a glorified developer board, which was exactly what I bought it for.