A while ago I used Arch Linux with i3 for a few years, but in the end, it was a bit too fiddly for me personally. So I switched to Windows 10 (my first Windows in many years). I really enjoy using it to this day, but with Microsoft mindlessly integrating LLMs into everything, I feel I should already think about my escape plan. 😅
I am mentally preparing to switch back to Linux some time next year, when support for Windows 10 runs out.
To ease myself into it, I will try out Linux Mint (in both the Xfce & Cinnamon flavor) in VirtualBox over the next couple of weeks, and see if I can make it work for me! 🙂
Why should it take @sovtechfund to fund accessibility work on the Linux distribution of a multi-billion-dollar corporation like IBM. Why the fuck isn’t IBM paying for it?
I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?
@itsfoss I once had to bring my whole desktop to university for a project because the assembly code I had written would only run on #Linux and they didn't have it installed
The dissolution of EFnet and many moving to online social media sites/services pretty much killed all the smaller channels except #helpchat and #linux.