Seriously, what are you talking about?
GNOME listed Framework on their donors page, they are either the first or second corporate sponsor to be listed there:
I don't know how to interpret that as turning down their money?
It's so weird to me how a certain crew of Linux detractors just love to cut and paste this video all over but don't seem to have any idea what it is.
For one, it's not over four years ago, that's just when that one video was uploaded. It's from 2014, it's over ten years ago. I mean I guess uhm actually ten is over four but . . . come on, that's not what this person meant.
Two, most of them don't exist today, at least not nearly in the same form. I mean, Linux is still open, that openness will always mean that for example, you can distribute your app however you want. You will never have "sideloading" on Linux broadly, there will always just be loading. But flatpak really is a game changer from 2014. What he says about distros expecting people to compile things also, just doesn't apply that way. I'd bet literally 99.99% of new Linux users who use Steam, have never compiled anything.
His other points to, are dramatically different than they are from 2014, that clip just isn't the uno reverse card you think it is.
The biggest shift I've noticed in conversations around desktop Linux is when someone says something like this:
"Is Linux really good enough to do $x? Such and such didn't work, OMG LOL."
Maybe they want to run photoshop, or some game, whatever.
In 2010, this would be met by a bunch of advocates basically begging that person to use Linux, or trying to shame them to get good, and everyone would just sort of get smug and walk away. The original person who started the conversation says something like "This is why you jobless neckbeards can't use real operating systems" or something silly.
In 2025, the conversation often goes "so don't run Linux, it's cool, Linux doesn't need you, the growth is happening with or without you." And the original poster says something like "no no, I still want to, I'm cool too." Because running Windows, is just not cool at this point. If you're like a PC building gamer, it's not something to be proud of. Upgrading from 10 -> 11 when PewDiePie is upgrading from 10 -> Arch, just isn't something to make noise about.
The tone has totally changed, go check out like
Follow the links and you'll see that wasn't the issue. It was that it wasn't clear the code was GPL compatible, untested, and then the maintainer tried to remove all history of it by force pushing to git.
It's not like being mad some coder used VS Code instead of vim, "if someone provides free work for you, they decide what tools they use" just really isn't the story.
Sooo many AI code issues are really just the same old issues of cut and paste code but we discuss them like they're new because AI. Those things are clearly problems regardless of AI.
OK. Old man rant. But I've been saying this for years about streaming apps. How is the overall quality so awful?
It is *stunning* how bad they are and people just put up with them. If you have two or three streaming apps, you will be constantly playing whac-a-mole with the same basic set of player bugs all the time. And somehow, even trillion dollar companies can't handle syncing where I am watching a show across multiple devices, it's the software challenge of our time.
When I press the "next show" button in a series, I really, really, really . . . don't mean the episode I just watched two days ago, I mean the next one. Apparently no one is able to even come close to doing this reliably.
For years now, Apple has introduced a big feature everyone seemed to think they want: a unified queue across many apps. The thing is, it's terrible. In theory, it shows you where you are in a show/movie, in a list, across multiple apps, on multiple devices. Watch half a movie on my phone, then launch it on Apple TV, it should go to that same spot. This ridiculously simple shortcut feature, from this trillion dollar company, works, at best, 50% of the time.
And the thing is . . . streaming is supposed to be the hot new business every tech company can't stay out of. Amazon and Apple, huge software companies, spend tons for shows, and produce terrible software. Disney is basically staking the company on it, same for WB. *How* is it so bad, while also being so basic?
It should have been two minutes long. It should have included John Hodgman. It should have come out a least a year ago.
To an extent, maybe they really do. I mean maybe they are fine with literally doubling the Linux desktop market share if it overall turns Windows into what they want, a SaaS/app store platform.
But it really seems they are wildly overestimating just how captive their audience is.
It reminds me of when they got all that bad press for trying to kill physical games on the Xbox. At the time it was like, an understandable move from a big company leveraging their control of a platform.
That was ten years ago, and I'd draw a straight line from there to the rumors today that Xbox is literally going to die, this is its last generation of hardware.
Sounds familiar. Five, maybe ten years ago, we hit the peak of Stack Overflow Cut and Paste.
I was fortunate to mostly retire from tech a few years ago, but it was already becoming way, way, way too much of my job to walk on egg shells code reviewing junior people who would submit large PRs, and then clam up and get real awkward when asked any questions about them, because well, they hadn't written more than 10% of it. Being diplomatic about it was a never ending challenge.
This just seems like the next, much worse step in what had already begun. I'm . . . really glad to not be dealing with it.
(I worked in the edtech industry and higher ed for about fifteen years before totally burning out.)
This is the natural end game of the horrible way we've structured education for decades.
When you pump public money though grants and guaranteed loans into a system of quasi-private universities, they are incentivized to take every student they possibly can.
For decades universities have been trying to admit everybody, while maintaining that they are elite and valuable precisely because they don't admit everybody. So overtime, grades and tests have become more and more of a sham. They are now truly teetering on the verge of being completely meaningless.
Even worse than the system being dumbed down, is how biased the system we're left with is. The more nebulous the grades get, the more they really just become a reflection of how much your teachers like you. White girl students dominate a K-12 system that is in turn dominated by white woman teachers, weird. Probably no connection.
I mean wait, kind of the quiet but most interesting part of this:
One of the lawsuits names 4chan and X as defendants, *alleging that they allowed bad actors to spread users' personal information*.
It might be the most ironic lawsuit ever. How many people can turn around and sue . . . Tea . . . *alleging that they allowed bad actors to spread users' personal information*.
This is truly the most ridiculous timeline.
This is the problem that doesn't get brought up nearly enough. They all act like they have some huge moat and will eventually dominate some huge market, but it doesn't seem like they will. They don't have some intellectual property portfolio like Microsoft, or some opportunity to make GPT a monopoly like Windows. None of their brands have any value, they're all so easily replaced. You can run a successful business at a huge loss for years if you have some way to make it hard for your customers to leave you when you start enshiffifying things on them. None of the AI companies seem to have that.
"GPT" will almost certainly never be a verb like Google. Somehow the hype train rolled right past the Deepseek scare but it . . . shouldn't have.
I'm old. I consume all kinds of content at variable speed depending on how interested I am in it and what I need out of it.
Because I'm *reading* it.
More and more young people *only* listen to and watch videos. You skim some articles? They're doing the same thing, but reading less.
The other factor is, especially on YouTube, videos are garbage. The algorithm/ad model rewards length. There's lots of really interesting, informative stuff on YouTube, but dragged out to an hour for five minute content. It's going to make AI summaries seem way more useful than they should be to the same crowd.
It's already night and day using a Linux desktop with regard to how vendors support it from a few years ago. Not that long ago, expecting things like Netflix and Spotify to work was out of the question, now you can pretty much assume they are all aware of and support Linux.
More and more hardware vendors, peripheral makers, are contributing their own support, directly to the kernel. I bought a PS5 controller a few years ago but no PS5, because I saw Sony had contributed the drivers directly to the kernel, and they work great. It seems extremely likely that in another 2-3 years, it will surpass 10%. At that point, you'll really be able to expect to go and say, buy a mouse or a monitor or some USB speakers, and have the hardware manufacturer be paying attention to Linux. At that point, I don't really care what the market share is, but normal people can have a big tech alternative without a lot of hoops to jump through, and that's a good thing.
It's hard not to think the surge in Linux desktop users wasn't a big factor in this.
Weird times.
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NewsFlash is excellent if you're a GNOME user, or probably even if you aren't.
Use it every day.
If this is timesharing, give me my share right now.
