To be clear I don’t mean that one one distro should exist. They call can exist but at least one company could do what I’m proposing to help the desktop Linux cause and adoption among even the average computer users.
Valve is our best hope, others might follow after they see their success
I don’t know which country you’re speaking about so please share if you can. But also, do you actually know this to be true? Or are you basing this on anecdotal evidence only?
I think you misspelled extreme/late stage capitalism.
I believe education can change that. Of course, we also need legislation that aids in growth of open source software.
I think you knowingly or unknowingly described technofeudalism.
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I do concur with your at large. We need to fix so many things.
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This is totally true in Spain at least, and as far as I know in France and Portugal as well. Every teacher must know the law and the basic curriculum for subjects because it’s established by law. In Spain’s case, by the latest Organic Education Law (LOMLOE) for compulsory education up to 16 years old and in the post-compulsory stage from 16 to 18. Educational laws are national in many countries and then competencies are distributed by regions to articulate the law more or less.
And let it be clear that this is a positive thing. It’s good that there are common contents throughout a nation, spanning public and private education so that there are no inequalities and injustices.
Capitalism was always extreme, except in Europe during the postwar Golden Age through the Marshall Plan. The imperialism of the entire 19th century until World War I is the most savage example. The New York stock market crash is another example.
I don’t really like the term techno-feudalism because it diverts attention from the fact that the natural tendency of the deregulated market with the connivance of politicians is toward the accumulation of capital in few hands. What’s happening in the technology sector is nothing new; it already happened with the textile and military industries. What is new, in my opinion, is the absolute surveillance of citizens and between governments thanks to the mediation of new technologies. Surveillance was already sought previously in old authoritarian and fascist governments, see Mao’s China or Hitler’s Germany. Nowadays it’s repeated in supposedly democratic governments. But I don’t want to go on any longer.
If they maintainer is doing their work well and there are no hard disagreements (like you really want a code change but the maintainer don’t want to accept your Pull request)
Then I don’t see it as necessary to fork something just for the sake of forking it.
Maybe not with so much excentions but I think they should shoip with Gnome tweaks and the excentions manager out of the box.
Yeah but this is what I am talking about. Why should there even exist GNOME Tweaks? It should be a part of the OS itself and not something one needs to simply ship with. I would prefer a distro take control of the more popular and used add ons and ship that with the OS such that GNOME Tweaks as an app/tool should not even be necessary or exist because the OS is full fledged with features and functionalities. That’s what I was getting at before.
Gnome Tweaks should be added directly into Gnome.
But every additional functionality that isn’t really necessary for Gnome to work, can stay as an addon, that might be shipped by default.
If its an addon then it is more eassy to change or remove it, then when it gets backed into the desktop environment itself.
Why? The only functionality I’ve ever needed from it is for setting startup applications, and Ignition works better for that.
This is more of a DE level thing than a distro level thing. If you don’t want to rely on extensions as much, KDE or Cinnamon might be for you, or possibly the upcoming COSMIC desktop from Pop!_OS. Or you can go with something like Bazzite which ships GNOME preconfigured to a certain degree and certain well made apps like Ignition preinstalled, if you prefer that over the vanilla GNOME experience.
Honestly while “Linux of the year” is a joke like “I use arch btw”,
I think honestly moving from around 2025-2026, I feel it will simply no longer be a joke
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Loving the discussion going on. I personally agree with a lot of what’s being said eventually there will be people fed up with Windows at least on a mainstream level I can already see the traction Linux popularity has grown and it will only get better. When the time comes Linux will always be here, once people use it and it meets their needs there’s simple no going back. The next issue will just be educating users just like how we’re already educating users on Windows and macOS the same will be true for Linux. Especially when it comes to security who’s gonna teach people how to protect their machine from hackers and what if they get hacked how do regular people understand/prevent these things.
Linux will just be another choice people will have it’ll be a better choice, but people will still be using Windows & macOS no matter what. There’s so much space for growth. There’s also so much space for and time for educating for Linux. Instead of comparing which Linux distro is better than which. To each their own- people can do what they want, it’s just funny to see the shift of how Linux was to how it is now and how its changing for the future, but its very important the steps we take from now on no matter how small or large.
- an average GNU/Linux user
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I think activating the _ 
x buttons should be the default.
Yes, politics definitely influences the situation and the school education program contributes to it.
Imagine a law which, much like for the browser choice, allows users to freely chose their OS AND makes OS and bundled SW costs display mandatory.
Thinking out loud:
- how to implement that as there are so many distros?
- obviously it won’t be possible to embark all distros on the harddisk for a smooth first time installation
- thus we get back to hardware manufacturers and resellers which are suspectedly influenced by big tech deals
- a such law would make them needing to make the OS selectable
- that’s where the community could federate (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to organize an exhaustive and regularly updated distro portal (also decentralized of course)
- this portal could be organized in an B2C (single place to chose with user appealing descriptions and videos) and a B2B front end (tapped in by manufacturers and resellers to provide an extensive choice to be embedded in their websites)
- schools, always under budget pressure, would be much more enclined to use FOSS
- and last but not least, the current geopolitical context is ideal for initiating such an idea
They managed to get it done for search engine choice on Android (in europe at least) and it shouldn’t be too hard to implement it so you have a default OS on your new pc, but the first time you turn it on you get a menu to choose your OS. Even if they would only provide an easy to follow step by step guide and an interface to easily download an alternative OS and create a bootstick, it would be much better than it is now.
The choice of OS screen is realistically way simpler to implement at checkout on the merchant’s website as an option than on first boot, but yes I get the idea.
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