AugustWest

I am being disingenuous? You make a very bold claim that people are “gatekeeping” open source software. You then claim that everything in Linux outside of web browsing requires the command line. I am completely serious.

All I am asking you to do is back up those claims.

Either you have a specific gripe that should be addressed, or you are just spreading bullshit online or trolling. Which one is it?

Having to do most real things besides browsing the internet via command line on 2025

What are these “most things”? I haven’t had to use the command line on this laptop I am typing on since I got it a year ago. Files, music, shares, my own cloud storage on s3, photo editing, etc? What are “most things” to you?

And even if it was “most things” you are not showing an example of gatekeeping. Give me an example, such as you submitting a pull request for a GUI for a current command line only “most things” that was rejected.

Can you show me an example of gatekeeping in this space? I am not sure that word means what you think it means.

I mean it is open source, ANYONE can create a different UI and fork the code, which is drastic but an option.

Are you saying you have submitted UI improvements as pull requests to several projects and had them tell you they would not merge due to a desire to keep the UI the way they designed it?

I don’t like Brussel sprouts. Not even after they have been selecting them for sweet not bitter over the last 30 years.

But… It is not really surprising that Salmon and roasted Brussel sprouts go good together. I mean this is not an uncommon pairing is it?

Alright if you know you know…

Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream and Garden of Eatins Red Hot Blues tortilla chips.

You asked for surprising…

And sadly now I have to watch a video. Wouldn’t step by step instructions be quicker and more effective? Yes. They were. Now it’s some video wasting my time.

Not sure that is a great example.

I see it the other way around. Linux just works, windows is the constant trouble shooting. Look at what you are talking about doing right now.

I have to work with Windows environments, I work with their desktop, servers, and cloud environment. I do it all from a Linux machine because it is reliable and the most predictable. Also the most sensible desktop to work from but that is another conversation.

Just quit using windows. Problem solved.

Spend a few minutes adjusting the view, setting the theme and then it is swipe for everything. Super easy.

Always thumbnail view for me, I couldn’t imagine anything else.

It has to be both. I notice our smaller egg seller (still bigger than a local farm, but not huge, maybe a 2 or 3 state provider) still charges 3.50 a dozen.

Which is in stark contrast to the garbage eggs from the countrywide sellers asking 8

Maybe it was a fleshy headed mutant from the forbidden zone.