guidelines are for the sheeple

gobolinux

it’s main feature is that it completely redefines the system’s root directory structure. the only reason i even know it exists is because i’m friends with one of the creators

The wallpaper has to be free of any themes related to sex, drugs, or violence.

Skeuomorphism is hard to get just right without being excessive and tacky

that was always my impression of os x back in the day. it felt tacky as hell. i’m a linux guy, but windows’s aero was so much more beautiful

skeumorphism is fucking ugly and it’s the main thing that made me dislike the appearance of os x back in the day. it honestly blew my mind people found apple to be the vanguard of graphical design

from the comments, there’s a split between

• linux as a tool: debian, mint, fedora, opensuse, etc.
• linux as a toy: arch, gentoo, nixos, etc.

i wish this split was made more explicit, because more often than not someone comes looking for recommendations for linux as a tool, but someone else responds expecting they want linux as a toy. then the person will try out linux and will leave because it’s not what they want, not knowing that there is a kind of linux that is what they want

unix is about doing one thing and doing it well, which is why systemd, baaad

…what do you mean ditch x11 in favor of wayland? no no, we need to preserve x11, the famous one-thing-well-doer

enjoy having the best blacklisted drivers on linux then i guess

that’s disconnected me from the general linux user experience

are we romanticizing having a broken system?

why would they use the gplv3 in the first place? didn’t they know it’s incompatible with v2?

sorted by controversial and found this post. why? this is amazing