“Left and right”’in this context probably means everywhere, not “liberal” and “conservative”.
So what you asking about just the “left” probably makes no sense.
“What specific problems does the government cause”? is a great question. I hope we get an answer.
Pretty sure they are just suggesting we teach people to fish
Not since their 20s
You have taken the first step towards creating your own distro.
Seriously though, what you suggest is fairly common but really a matter of preference. The same answer applies to “is it just extra work”.
I tend not to customize heavily because it keeps “me” generic and I can sit down at anything and be equally effective. Others heavily customize their environments to keep themselves productive and happy on the machines they actually use.
One advantage of your approach is you can create a “standard” user space across multiple distos. You do not have to remember if this system or that is Debian or Arch if “rk update” works everywhere ( even if is doing something different under the hood. This could be useful if you run a bunch of VMs or containers.
Do you have a favourite text editor that you heavily customize or do you use whatever? Same question for your DE. It is all scratching the same itch.
It looks a bit ugly to my eye but honestly that is a really good idea.
What other company or individual can the same be said of?
He did not say “shared a two-line bug fix one time”. The claim is that Red Hat is almost uniquely important in the Open Source ecosystem. Their source code contributions and / or the number of significant project that they have founded are evidence of this.
Can you name even a single company with the same impact? You certainly cannot name tens of thousands.
Often, when somebody moves the goal posts to avoid addressing an argument head on, it is to intentionally mislead. I hope that is not the case here.
They do not own it because of their commitment to not just Open Source but ironically the GPL. So the large number of projects they have founded and the larger number of projects are the force behind are not “owned” by them.
They could have “owned” a tonne of the software almost every Linux user uses ( including Guix and Debian ).
This is precisely why it sounds so wrong to my ears when talk about Red Hat as above. Few facts. Lots of name calling.
Is there a “questionable thing” other than your views on CemtOS? I do not watch them super closely but I do not recall anything else.
To my eye, Red Hat’s “direction” has not changed since they formed the Fedora Project to begin with ( the first attempt at keeping RHEL and their “no cost” options distinct ). Attempt number two was the creation of CentOS Stream. Now it is the way they manage RHEL SRPMS. No change in direction. No change in intent. No overall change in their behaviour.
Have you tried DietPi?
“The Cloud” is mostly Linux—specifically Linux containers. Kubernetes and Docker are Linux specific technologies.
Most “IT” roles these days will be for from Linux knowledge ( not all of course ). It is a good skill to have.
If you do encounter an environment where they do not use Linux, it may be because of a lack of skilled staff. You could be the reason they adopt it.