Hot take: You know how revolutionary figures like MLK get stripped of their true revolutionary message so they are more palatable to capital?
I'm afraid we will get our "year of the linux desktop" but linux will lose much of what makes it linux and revolutionary before that is allowed to happen.
Specifically I am afraid of media companies getting closed source software directly into the kernel in the name of anti-piracy, or something similar in the name of anticheat for videogames.
I'm also afraid of the fact that we're losing a bit of the "free on every level" philosophy that has lead to amazingly "end user" configurable desktop environments like xfce and kde, which are increasingly being passed over for the arguably even more walled-garden gnome desktop.
I'm afraid of big software companies starting to take linux seriously, but decide that they don't want to work with the existing technologies or ecosystems, so they build their own foundations, maybe their own desktop environments, their own distros entirely, in pieces of software which, if they aren't monolithic, will be at best oligo-lithic? e.g. Photoshop finally on the linux desktop! Only on AdoBuntu!
It's sleek, it has pretty animations, it's linux.. technically, and if you want to write software that integrates and behaves like a first-class citizen like adobe's software does then you better learn how to use this obtuse API.
We don't really have to worry about that anytime soon tho :) I do get what you're saying but the market share means that companies that try to work with the Linux community actually have to appeal to them you know? That's what the tablet maker Jing something figured out. The community is really committed to the ideals so something like kernel level anitcheat isn't gonna happen imo
I must admit I haven't given this much thought before
nah I think this is just unwarranted pessimism. I mean, yeah, a complete fascist take over could take place and we’d lose all semblance of public propriety and GNU could be taken over by FUKU but there’s a billion distros out there with versions extending to all the way back in 1999 or w/e, the code is all open source. You could put it all back together to untether yourself from that potential nightmare.
You could put it all back together but would you have access to all the online streaming services? Look how long it took us to get netflix on linux properly, and we still aren't first class citizens there either.
The rest of "linux" is going to move on and leave us behind.
Hot take: You know how revolutionary figures like MLK get stripped of their true revolutionary message so they are more palatable to capital?
I'm afraid we will get our "year of the linux desktop" but linux will lose much of what makes it linux and revolutionary before that is allowed to happen.
Specifically I am afraid of media companies getting closed source software directly into the kernel in the name of anti-piracy, or something similar in the name of anticheat for videogames.
I'm also afraid of the fact that we're losing a bit of the "free on every level" philosophy that has lead to amazingly "end user" configurable desktop environments like xfce and kde, which are increasingly being passed over for the arguably even more walled-garden gnome desktop.
I'm afraid of big software companies starting to take linux seriously, but decide that they don't want to work with the existing technologies or ecosystems, so they build their own foundations, maybe their own desktop environments, their own distros entirely, in pieces of software which, if they aren't monolithic, will be at best oligo-lithic? e.g. Photoshop finally on the linux desktop! Only on AdoBuntu! It's sleek, it has pretty animations, it's linux.. technically, and if you want to write software that integrates and behaves like a first-class citizen like adobe's software does then you better learn how to use this obtuse API.
We don't really have to worry about that anytime soon tho :) I do get what you're saying but the market share means that companies that try to work with the Linux community actually have to appeal to them you know? That's what the tablet maker Jing something figured out. The community is really committed to the ideals so something like kernel level anitcheat isn't gonna happen imo
I must admit I haven't given this much thought before
Oh and btw I'm a big KDE fan and I really like the volunteer culture they got instead of the corporate culture of gnome
nah I think this is just unwarranted pessimism. I mean, yeah, a complete fascist take over could take place and we’d lose all semblance of public propriety and GNU could be taken over by FUKU but there’s a billion distros out there with versions extending to all the way back in 1999 or w/e, the code is all open source. You could put it all back together to untether yourself from that potential nightmare.
You could put it all back together but would you have access to all the online streaming services? Look how long it took us to get netflix on linux properly, and we still aren't first class citizens there either. The rest of "linux" is going to move on and leave us behind.
Isn't that's just Android
Android isn't really consider Linux tho and it didn't hijack Linux in the way that raven means