They don't want you to use the full Ubuntu package repos nor any PPAs, though. They expect you to be content with just KDE apps and Flatpak. Flatpak in no way covers my needs on its own, and I got tired of fighting with 3rd-party repos on it. If I have to run Ubuntu and want up-to-date KDE, I run Tuxedo OS. That's what my work laptop is on, and has been pretty great overall. The rest of my machines are on one rolling release or another (Debian Testing, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, or Arch).
I started using Windows fully after like 15 years. I really like Windows 11 after running the debloater. WSL2 seems to work pretty seamlessly. I built this machine for gaming but now I use it as my primary machine and have stopped using my macbook completely.
I tried to do linux on the box instead of windows, but I ran into:
- No fractional scaling support except for KDE.
- I can't for the life of me, stop X from using the discrete Nvidia card (I use AMD integrated for display). It wants to sit on the card even when there are no processes running on it through X.
- Wayland fractional scaling is unsupported in chrome and electron still.
- No HDR.
- Font rendering is painful to look at with fractional scaling.
Wasted a LOT of time trying to get this working before giving up and just using WSL2. Everything works in Windows, which is not unexpected. It's amazing already what a community of volunteers is giving me for free!
I doubt anyone criticizing is doing so because of "How dare they want money?"
Which just begs the question, why did you think that? That take just exposes a complete missing of the point of open source software and why (honest) people invest their time in it.
There are others who just want the caché and benefits that come with producing open source, but without the annoying actually being open source parts.
If you want to get paid for renting out copies of software, just do that honestly. If you want to make the world a better place and pay it forward for all the free stuff you were given, then do that honestly.
But wanting the benefits of sainthood without having to volunteer at the soup kitchen, no, audacity is not the word for that.
And merely wanting a comfortable living is not audacious, and no one who's not an idiot thinks it is, and is actuall othogonal to whether you have any integrity wrt open source licenses.
You can want, and have, that comfortable living either way.
Rust, the language can not push any politics. For me, technical stuff and politics are disjoint sets. I do not care at the least what the political leanings of people I work with are. To me it sounds as none of my business as what car they drive or what perfumes they like.
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