Debian and xfce, generally. I’m happy to wait for features when they arrive, and xfce works fine.

However, Debian with gnome on my surface pro 6. Xorg just doesn’t handle rotation and touchscreen things very well.

On the other hand, several apps still behave very poorly under Wayland, so it’s a bit of a catch 22 at the moment.

The issue is that they are pushing their own version of flatpaks, some of which are broken, instead of contributing to flat hub and making that the default.

Well, tbf Brodie had only just covered that Hector had left upstream.

Also, it’s hot on the heels of one of leads of the nouveau driver leaving redhat and the nouveau project altogether. Karol Herbst has pointed out friction with Linux kernel maintainers as well.

There are a number of other devs who are less… Shall we say set in their ways and are perceived as completely opposite to the free and open values they once encouraged 20 years ago. And i don’t think anyone wants to see the Linux community fragment along these lines.

Yeah, those are both good examples of interdependent supply between us and Canada, where it makes sense to keep markets geographically together.

I’m more referring to artificial blocks in terms of provincial barriers put in place for political reasons, like my alcohol example. Historically, these were restrictions for tax reasons between Ontario, Quebec and western Canada, but recent (last 20 years) spats and competition for transfer payments have essentially cut off lumber, paint, car parts, raw minerals, etc between provinces as close as sask and Manitoba.

And that is on top of intangible services gradually being restricted more and more between provinces. As a remote worker and contractor, rules have tightened for me about working in multiple provinces simultaneously.

These measures aren’t there to balance economics, they exist because provinces compete more than they cooperate.

No, there are significant regulatory barriers between provinces.

Alberta has hard limits on how much BC wine and produce can be sold in stores. Consequently, its cheaper to get Australian wine in Calgary than from the okanagan valley. Same with fruit, but from the USA.

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You already know why.

You’ve mentioned that you dont care about systemd several times, but it’s certainly not clear from your post.

Many companies contribute to the LF. Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, oracle, redhat, are all platinum members. Are you concerned because poettering works for ms that they’re going to privatize Linux?

What is your issue with run0?

If you don’t care about systemd, then why post?

Sysvinit is done. It is not graceful at handling dependant services, it was hard to test, and customising a service was painful compared to unit files.

For someone who’s been at Linux for 30 years, you clearly haven’t spent any time fighting with init scripts.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Poettering. His approach lacks any empathy for anyone who’s entrenched in a current system and breaks stuff with his deployment approach.

But run0 solves a LOT of problems with sudo, problems that have always existed. Have you ever tried to deploy a sudoers file in an ecosystem of Linux systems relying on LDAP? Sudo definitely needs fixing.

This is a precursor to kicking X out of the country

Yes, of course. Those things are also all true.

I agree, but we should have diversified our trade in the 90s when we realized Mulroney’s us/can free trade agreement wasn’t going to last forever, and when it was becoming obvious that China was rising fast as a manufacturing powerhouse.

IMO, we should have forged a tightly integrated trade agreement with the EU and spearheaded the Trans Pacific Partnership way sooner.

We’re in the pickle of current events because we were largely complacent at the table of a global market that marched ahead without us in the ways we wanted.

Please draw from the context of this thread that I mean future deaths.

You’re lost in the semantics. Outcomes like fewer deaths resulting from foreign policy decisions, including belligerent invasions, matter more than perceived political “moral” calculus.

I did. It’s a culture vulture article, you just need to use an incognito tab.

As unpleasant as the content is, just read the article. And remember that lots of folks have trusted Neil Gaiman for a long time (I’m 50) to tell stories they connect with, especially in the 90s when there were fewer writers to do so.

sombre reflection

You apparently still haven’t read the article. Given the reactions to your comment, you may want to go see why the comments are “sombre”, as you put it.

Problem with Poettering is that he was right, but he was a dick about it. Like Rick Sanchez.

No clue what he did (have not yet read the article). Haven’t really consumed any of his media.

I’m surprised everyone else is surprised

This comment didn’t need to be made.

You really, really should use this as an example for yourself in the future to read the room. That means read the article before making a thoughtless comment on something you obviously didn’t fully grasp.