@BrideOfLinux Finally watched the Linux Sucks presentation from Brian @BryanLunduke (I hope that's the right one!) and he's made some scary observations about Microsoft, VMWare and others "buying" seats at the Linux table. Any thoughts @BrideOfLinux? I can't say I'm happy.
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Replying to @marcdraco63 @BryanLunduke
Yup.
@Microsoft and@VMware are among the companies that shell out $500 million annually to be platinum members of@LinuxFoundation , which is basically a corporate club. The foundation offers no support to FOSS and views open source primarily as a corporate development model.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @BrideOfLinux @BryanLunduke and
Lunduke said it also pays Linus (and I assume other lead devs) which brings me back to my fears about the way Linux has been going of late. I wish a properly funded (i.e. no corporate strings, ever) foundation could take over.
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Replying to @marcdraco63 @BryanLunduke and
That's not likely to happen. The Linux Foundation reportedly pays Linus $10 million per year to serve as Linux's lead.
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Replying to @BrideOfLinux @BryanLunduke and
Which pretty much explains everything I've been bitching about. Ugh. I wish BSD had better hardware support. Maybe if I could get a larger rendering box (which is where all my horsepower goes) - then I wouldn't be so tied to nVidia's chips?
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Replying to @marcdraco63 @BryanLunduke and
Trouble with BSD is that it's far behind Linux for desktop use according to some Linux friends who gave it a try and came back to Linux.
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Replying to @BrideOfLinux @BryanLunduke and
Years behind in some cases. More in others. @GhostBSD1 is excellent for beginners and really nice to use for general work but drivers are missing, fidgety and sometimes a non-starter. FreeBSD is really a server box and TrueOS looks like Windows 3.1's ugly half-cousin.
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Replying to @marcdraco63 @BryanLunduke and
There you go. It looks as if Linux is your best alternative for the foreseeable future then.
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Replying to @BrideOfLinux @BryanLunduke and
Completely (*and grudgingly*) agree. At least they all have a future - we just have to be careful not to fear leaving the ship when the pumps give out!
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Remember, most desktop distro devs work hard to keep their distros free and ethical, even when they include some "non-free" software in the mix.
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Replying to @BrideOfLinux @BryanLunduke and
They do! You're quite correct (as ever). I quite fancied PureOS but it didn't play on my hardware... damn you proprietary drivers. I have two "essential" bits of software that absolutely won't (yet) run under Wine so I need to keep "Bill" around a bit. Blender does all my 3D now.
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