I am mad. I bought a book about "Enshittification". The title pretty much says it all. I found a link from one of Brian's post about what is going on with X and the guy who is making a fork. It really changed my mind on forks being churn.
I'm looking into making my own disto. But that is just crazy ;)
But, don't look too hard, the kernel is turning into a piece of work too. How do you deal with that?
It's just IBM, and others, trying to make a buck off of something that they provide for free. I'm sure, at the end of the day, there will be some kind of subscription.
I'm glad you made it back. Sorry we didn't fix anything while you were away.
But, it is swimming against the current. Look at mailing list. I think they're generally great. What do people use now: X, Slack, Facebook, and their ilk. I like this list, and I'd really like to revive mailing list in general, but I don't know how LOL. And I feel warm knowing that we don't have a giant corporate overlord.
But, in our favor is that Wayland is really poor, right now. It is going to cost someone a bunch of money to fix that. And most of the user community is happy with X. So they are going to try to break X. Embrace, Enhance, Eliminate.
I'm keeping my eye on the X fork.
I think the kernel is only at the Embrace, Enhance step. But, somehow, someone, wants a subscription there.
It's nothing new. The room is cheap, but there is a resort fee that you don't get to know until it's too late. Fooled me once. I've never been back. But, I see that they are all doing just fine. Cable TV. This economic model has roots and most people don't care. Like they don't care how much the car cost, just what are the payments. The fact that they went from 3 year loans to 7 year loans doesn't seem to bother most people.
They are just getting around to implementing that model on Linux. And, this is the door they chose.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:46:05PM -0700, Linus Sphinx wrote:
Been through hell, a coma, brain damage and climbed out of my grave to actually try some dev but first had to upgrade everything running Fedora in the house and just wanted to let you guys know I am not Ok with having this heinous incompatible garbage rammed up my ass. IS ANYBODY ELSE PISSED? We Linux users look like a bunch of pussies just letting this go by, we need to speak up loud and clear NOW. The desktop market was ours, MS screwed their users and committed suicide with Win 11. Does nobody remember the Year Of Linux Desktop? It was here, the world was ours, and our leading desktops decided to drive their dick in the dirt by killing off X11 after decades of working with everything. I smell a rat, somebody got paid to make sure that didn't happen. Violating the whole spirit of Unix, ending components and turning GDM into a monolithic POS. How the hell long was I out? [image: redcrap.png]