Unless its ubuntu*
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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or KDE. :p Did you see how they butchered kcalc over recent years?
You sure the guys running pacman are sitting on the right hand side of the bus? Seems a bit more like they should be in the back doing a skill check for luck and rolling a d20
considering the malware attacks if it's yay or paru it should probably be a d2
The recent attacks have been against the AUR.
Which pacman doesn't reference.
In terms of sneaking in malicious code, that's possible in the official repos of all operating systems, including the windows store.
The actual meme speaks more to the fact that windows update is enforced unless you jump through enormous flaming hoops, and it will measurably make your already running system worse as it forces the installation of things the user wouldn't want (ie copilot) or removes functionality they do (classic control panel).
But you know... I use Arch btw.
My comment was just a joke man, wow
Sometimes it feels more like in front of the bus, and running pacman just puts you a little further up the road
Poor zypper gets forgotten again!
Zypper is the Gen X of package managers.
I do believe it's not just one of the things to keep getting better, it's a blueprint for the things we want to build in the future. From software to society. More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.
My current enemy is the stranglehold of corporate OSs in the mobile space. That really really needs to go for good.
More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.
I've got some bad news about Linux then, the main contibutors are companies, and the infrastructure is owned by them.
It's not individuals who paying Linus $1.5 million a year (Under "Compensation").
I agree, however, rather than individual participation, I would say Linux represents a victory for the collective spirit. Yes Linus has spearheaded the kernal development for years, but without all the other contributors sacrificing countless hours, Linux wouldn't be nearly as successful (and ubiquitous) as it is. Linux demonstrates that we, as a community, can come together to work towards something we know is good and right, without the drive of monetary gain or social recognition, but just because it's fun, or fills a need, or helps us learn.
That's one of the biggest reasons I think Linux is so evangelised on Lemmy specifically: because it epitomises the power of collective altruism in a world increasingly dominated by corporate greed.
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I think this is true of open source and open science more generally.
In the long run there's no way that the actual desires of humanity can be out-developed by an extremely privileged group of front-runners, rent-seekers, enshittifiers, etc. (eg. proprietary software)...
The main enshitification I've seen has been when a project tries to financially support itself via a supported version or enterprise version. More often than not new features get developed for the paid version and the open source version becomes the community version. New features then never got put in to the community version, or it remains in a crippled state
In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.
Try telling that to someone who had a spinning cube desktop on their 386 or 486.
Ask not how worthy an idol Linux is, but what you can do to give back to free software.
At least until the AI slop updates don't reach the kernel (at least they're banned from some parts of it).
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Eh, you'd hope. I can't definitively say why this happens for now, but I'm seeing a surprising amount of "little bugs and quirks" seeping through, more than it used to. And that makes me worried.
It's probably heavily dependent on distro, using Bazzite right now and the only bug I've run into recently is ProtonPlus not downloading Steam Tinker Launcher because "yad >= 7.2" for some fucken reason. Let me download it fucker I want to use Vortex to download my fuckoff NV modpack.
I certainly have a guess
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