what exactly got nixed? Its all right there on the sys tray with a handy slider

as a non-american, no one really wants to go there at the moment anyway

Isn’t that a Michael Bay film?

in the case of Android, it comes down to the proprietary driver modules that are compiled for certain kernel versions. As newer versions of android are released with newer kernels, the closed source modules fall out of step. If the drivers for these components were open source anyone could recompile them for any Linux kernel. It’s usually up to the device manufacturer working with the likes of the chip makers to release newer module versions for their hardware. OEMs dont want to support their hardware beyond few years, so you’ll hopefully buy a new phone.

The postmarketOS community (and some of the android community) works pretty hard trying to bring mainline kernel support to devices, which enables them to run generic Linux kernels, or conceivably newer versions of android than the OEM has released. But this involves reverse engineering support for this hardware.

the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output

Its not like they’re blocking all contributions, if it was more than niche, they wouldnt ignore the needs of other big players. I’m not fully across it, but the BSDs still make more use of xorg and maintain their own trees IIRC.

I really only saw headlines about Xlibre, hadnt followed up on it

The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

I agree Gnome 3+ is bad, but we do need modern components and honestly when the next biggest player in these things in Canonical with there NIH / throw it over the fence and like it attitude, I know which I’d prefer. Especially when these components truly are upstream projects, and they do indeed take community contributions.

almost no development of Xorg, but they don’t surrender the control of the project to someone who’d want to.

Yeah the xorg thing is shit for those that feel they still need it, but no one else really had the resources to maintain it. Its critical infrstructure, they can’t just hand it off until they’re done with it (RH10). Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it’ll end up like KwinFT.

I refuse to use Fedora (because it’s basically their testing bed)

interesting take

RedHat also does work to sink projects which don’t fit their strategy for Linux development

I’m interested in any examples you can provide of this

back to Monke

Last I checked it didnt play very nicely in real hardware, and required running it in a VM

what a bizare take to suggest hoping for ReactOS to mature before using Linux as daily driver. A lot of the current reactOS app compatibility depends on WINE implementation anyway.

take it up with software patents I guess

its only an issue if people dont use the codecs out of rpmfusion, the fedora adjacent nonfree repos

My kids ask when I’m adding a movie to Jellyfin all the time

Non-Multiverse movies since endgame:

Spider-Man: Far From Home Black Widow Shang-Chi Eternals Love and Thunder Wakanda Forever Guardians 3 Marvels Brave New World Thunderbolts*

was there no fun to be had in any of those?

no, we have nano at home

the biggest crime marvel ever commited on themselves was infinitywar/endgame. Not all these movies have to be that big and I think many people miss that.

I had a fun time at the Marvels and Quantumania that year, I came out happy. Did they change my life? No, but I had fun

there’s plenty of up to date, feature rich distros on the scale between mint and arch. Fedora or ublue/bazzite are also good options for example

they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled