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Comment Re:beta blockers? what have they smoked? (Score 0) 56

If I wanted no freedom and no choice, then I would just use a more popular commercial OS than Linux and be done with it.

by all means do it, since freedom in free software has nothing to do with your notion of "people should develop things that I LIKE" you are kind of missing the point on the whole thing.

Comment Re:Why be a guinea pig for Red Hat? (Score 2, Insightful) 56

And to be fair, Fedora is rock solid as a workstation. At least for me it has been the least complicated distro to install, upgrading one time per year on my desktop and each 6 months in my laptop.

You have to get used to change, but if you are a developer not concerned with learning a few new things every year it's ok.

It should receive some more love on the desktop side, it's getting unintuitive for beginners.

Comment Re:What system d really is (Score 0) 928

Not trivial. Not easy. Not freedom of choice.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice. I mean... there is still one choice, you can CHOOSE to develop your own distro acording to your own tastes and system design vision.

If you are solipsistic and think that everyone's job is to keep you happy, then it's not other people (devs) fault, it's yours. You have decided not to move on, you have decided that everything that gets consensus is too mainstream and your indignation is based in the fact that no one asked you before changing it.

You're actually trying to force everyone else to stay still until YOU can assimilate that technology is always changing. Technology has forced upon us a plethora of other things, be it social media, new standards, languages and technologies. Have you ever considered that nobody asked you before coming up with HTML5?

Perhaps the reason of this is that you are not as important as you think you are, and should eat your own ego and assimilate that society won't always choose things that you like.

Comment Re:So What? (Score 0) 669

Well, I'm not here to discuss theology. Just the truth about what the doctrine has said. I'm an agnostic myself.

What I can assure is that this pope is a skilled politician, and he'll probably get the best reputation since John Paul II . He called the vote on gay marriage because he knew it wouldn't pass, but "hey, it's not my fault, I TRIED!". And several other acts like acting "humble" by choosing the cheapest luxuries in his life.

Comment Re:Sauerbraten (Score 0) 50

Graphics! Look at the graphics! You're not a true gamer unless you're elitist about graphics!

I don't know what a true gamer is, I'm a guy who play games, no time for making an identity from it. But sauerbraten does it better, and it doesn't even require a good graphics card, and it has been around for ages now. Nowadays it seems like developing stuff with shitty graphics, labeling retro and selling it half-baked is what's "in".

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