As a long-time Linux user,I’ve seen a huge number of changes both positive and negatives. I’ve been using Linux on and off on and off for the past 20 to 25 years and can still remember the days where you’d have to use utilities such as bw43-cutter in order to get drivers for devices that required Broad-Com chip based Ethernet and WiFi chip sets. I can also remember when you where required to enable enable the the contribute and non-free repositories in the case of Debian this was until Book-Worm when they split the free and non-free firmware packages within the archives. I’ve also used plenty of different terminal emulators ranging from gnome terminal,kitty,Xfce terminal,Konsole,UXterminal and several other terminal emulators. I’ve also used nearly every opensource productivity suite from Apache Open Office to LibreOffice and in between. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are multiple things that give me a lot of concern for the Linux and open source communities as a combined whole. The first and most to me are the astronomical degrees of polarization around certain topics such as the proliferation of YouTube and just regular old social media hot takes including several by massive media conglomerates like Linus Media Group and Mr. Beast. More so Mr. Beast who operate solely on driving up their channels popularity by running scams on there subscribers in order to gain financial gains for the media corporation or individual behind the channel(operation). On the other side of the coin you’ve got YouTube personalities and channels like Gamer’s Nexus or The Linux Cast that actively try to promote choice in your distributions. The other things that annoy the ever living hell out of me are the Waring factions between Desktop Environments,Window managers and purists like those who choose to strictly use the command line interpreter. The worst of the desktop environment factions are the KDE vs. Gnome user basis that are to me at least tearing each other down on a daily if not hourly basis both on YouTube and on certain Open Source Software forums that I frequent <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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