yianiris

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[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social 1 points 10 months ago

Is abiword foss?
It is the most reasonable of editors/wp I have found, LO gives me a headache looking at 1000 menus/items.
The gtk2 version is stable as a rock, despite of some bad wrap it got last few years.

@fossphi @jackpot

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social 15 points 10 months ago

It is called free because it allows you the freedom to hack the code and make it fit your needs, not because of cost. Like you say, freedome can be expensive, so go cheap and use authentic windows with a paid license, closed code binary blobs, and blind trust to the megacorp selling it.

@TCB13 @troyunrau

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should try arch or an arch fork, arch doesn't leave broken upstream pkgs unpatched too long, either they work or they are out

@Guenther_Amanita

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've hated the idea of wayland and still dislike many things about it, but 1st wayland is just a protocol, wlroots is the common base for everything. After trying labwc the current seemed to turn around quite a bit. Still missing some basic utilities that seem to only exist for sway and be based on sway.
Both sway and waybox are a disappointment.

So keep trying different projects to find what fits, because eventually we will be there.

@Secret300 @Smorty

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What linux were you using if you don't mind asking?

@Guenther_Amanita @jackpot

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social 1 points 10 months ago

Which stats are valid?

IBM puppet rag phoronix? For over a decade they have not made a single reference an alternative to systemd exists or a distribution without systemd actually exists.

@Secret300

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

NixOS is better because...

...broken link ... or non-existent reasoning?

@wwwgem

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you want me to list software assuming you either run gnome or plasma?
Articles presenting the choice in linux as being those 2 desktops alone?
And all of it with direct code linking systemd utilities as there is no alternative or use of more common functions.

@2xsaiko

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Qt is the base, what I meant is the KDE-plasma appears to push for the Mac-ation of linux while Gnome is pushing for the Microsoftization (aesthetics functionality wise) .. it may be the reverse I don't use either 4 of them.

wm with least possible overhead possible is my minimalist tendency for a graphic enviornment.

@2xsaiko

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Qt since its 5->6 transition has become very restrictive in its non-commercially licensed terms. A legal team must have worked hard and long to stretch this as LGPL, meaning that GPL licensing needs more attention to detail.
There is practically no support and no way to report a bug unless you are a paying customer, is what I kept.

My main issue is those two GTK and QT, are pushing linux to become an MSw and Mac alternatives respectively. Both ugly and anti-unix

@2xsaiko @Eldritch

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't talking to you either, I was speaking in general, to the public about all of us. Who cares what you do?
@aniki

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