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1. It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 14:50:38 JST It's FOSS

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   • mashbooq (mashbooq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 15:03:17 JST mashbooq

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     @itsfoss there's never going to be a year of the Linux desktop

   • Linux_Is_Best (linux_is_best@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 15:07:13 JST Linux_Is_Best

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     @itsfoss Unpopular opinion of Linux?

     Linux needs to be more unified. - At least with the basics.

     I lmean, I ike that you have choices among distros, but the locations, for example, of config files or apps should be the same. The contents don't have to be the same but at least the locations of where things are would go a long way.

   • MartinMcFly (martinmcfly@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 15:11:12 JST MartinMcFly

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     @itsfoss this penguin is so f****ing annoying. Please another mascot.

   • Islamic Audiobooks Central (islamicaudiobooks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 16:44:33 JST Islamic Audiobooks Central

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     @itsfoss Canonical's #Snaps have a vakid use case - #autoupdate for a large fleet of machines. Does #Flatpak offer a similar feature?

   • Nausiyan (nausiyan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 16:56:18 JST Nausiyan

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     @itsfoss systemd is the worst thing in linux

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 16:56:18 JST It's FOSS

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     • Nausiyan

     @nausiyan 👀

   • Linux_Is_Best (linux_is_best@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 16:58:26 JST Linux_Is_Best

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     @itsfoss another unpopular opinion concerning Linux?

     Package names should have the same name across distros. They can still be uniquely configured differently, but the package names shouldn't be widely different from one another across distributions.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 16:58:26 JST It's FOSS

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     • Linux_Is_Best

     @Linux_Is_Best So true!

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 16:59:57 JST It's FOSS

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     • stib

     @stib 👀

   • stib (stib@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 16:59:58 JST stib

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     @itsfoss it needs to ditch bash and zsh, etc., and ship with Powershell as the default shell.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 17:00:33 JST It's FOSS

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     • Paul Wilde :blobcatnim_new:

     @paul 🤣

   • Paul Wilde :blobcatnim_new: (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 17:00:36 JST Paul Wilde :blobcatnim_new:

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     @itsfoss
     My unpopular opinion? Ubuntu is not Linux, it is a snap delivery platform
   • Isho'ye (wuffish@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 17:54:02 JST Isho'ye

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     @itsfoss GUI configuration tools are not evil. Should have more of them.

     I started with system configs using DIP switches, and jumpers, then autoexec_bat, config_sys, and win_ini, even faffed about deep in the Windows registry.

     Not saying it needs to be 100% GUI, à la F̵i̵s̵h̵e̵r̵-̵P̵r̵i̵c̵e̵ MacOS. Simple, text-based config files offer immense granularity. As long as that option is there, cool.

   • Alex (alomsimoy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 05:53:17 JST Alex

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     @itsfoss I like simple names for my applications, like "Files" for my files, not Dolphin, Thunar or PCManFM. Like, come on! Who came up with that last one and though it was a good idea?

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 17:07:04 JST It's FOSS

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     • Min :neofox_fingerguns:

     @minneyar Exactly!

   • Min :neofox_fingerguns: (minneyar@fuzzyfox.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 17:07:09 JST Min :neofox_fingerguns:

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     @itsfoss@mastodon.social Your average Linux desktop environment is more user-friendly and more consistent than Windows.
     
     The only advantage the Windows desktop environment has nowadays is that your average person has decades of experience using it, and making a paradigm shift is hard.