lol I guess I dodged the instability because I was using it on Windows all these years up until a few months ago, where it was mostly fine!

Man, I wanna see your artistry over at !unixporn@lemmy.ml!

no worrying about updating or not updating

What? Isn’t the entire AUR attack a vast net of worry cast on all update managers and the digital supply chain? Linux has suddenly become much riskier to use in recent years, even as it’s also steadily improved otherwise. We need to be just as brutally honest about its pitfalls as much as we can praise it over its strengths, lest we deceive ourselves and others.

Hey man, they gave us Kdenlive. That thing has singlehandedly taken down Sony VEGAS Pro and so many other worse, closed-source, commercial video-editing programs. If you dislike Dolphin, find any one of the other thousands of file managers, but don’t attack KDE.

Well… I guess not everyone’s as smart as you, then.

I know, but more people left Twitter after it became X, for example, so migration is totally possible.

I like your action-oriented thinking! However, I’m not complaining; I’m warning and inquiring. I also didn’t name/target any particular project; I was just thinking about the relative size of the two orgs and I find myself just generally living in the FOSS space and trying to encourage it as much as possible over for-profit in today’s era of hyper-greedy capitalists, more and more.

I posted here first to check why people aren’t moving before bothering to assist with migrations myself, and I’m glad I did because I’ve come to agree that due to Git’s distributed system, it’s generally not worth it and is probably good enough for devs to pack their bags quickly enough should Microsoft pull any further shenanigans. Should that day come, sure, I’d be happy to help!

I didn’t know the repo space was that different. That does play a factor in all this…

True, I always look for cross-platform ones whenever possible…

Hmm, good point… I am an avid bug reporter…

I must’ve missed this meme if this is some sort of repeat.

Ha, if only that were the truth. I keep preaching over there and telling people to check out /r/RedditAlternatives, at least, so I like to think that I’ve moved at least one person over, which makes it all worthwhile.

Wait, is “cope” some kind of new insult?

Huh? I am aware; I didn’t say “all Linux projects,” did I? Of course I already know that there are already some on Codeberg and elsewhere, but I still wanted to address the behemoth.

It’s not the shipping; it’s the return policy. Amazon’s is almost impossible to beat apart from certain in-person stores like Costco or perhaps ALDI.

Fair, but what about the Copilot-pockmarking? And they’re always one step away from a paywall… Why wait until it gets that bad versus at least duplicating elsewhere now?

Oh… shoot… TIL, thanks!

Are they trying to fake their own numbers, or maybe one Linux fanatic who is falsely skewing representation?

Curious: how do we know that these download counts aren’t inaccurate from, like, a few bots repeatedly downloading to mess with the stats?

Okay, great, thanks. I just hope that Canonical doesn’t do something like forcibly interweave a proprietary blob with a critical updated.