What would an ENSH*TTIFIED Linux distro look like?
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Just for fun, I decided to try and imagine what a Linux distro would look like if it got hit by the enshittification stick that seems to affect every digital product of service these days. 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: a Daily Linux News show, a weekly patroncast for more personal thoughts, polls on the next topics I cover,, your name in the credits, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 GET TLE MERCH Support the channel AND get cool new gear: https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST: Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Website: https://thelinuxexp.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos Discord: https://discord.gg/mdnHftjkja Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Big Tech Linux 02:48 Mandatory Account 03:41 Privacy Invasion 04:17 Ads are coming 05:38 Time for AI 06:39 Tiering up 08:54 Final steps 10:41 Parting Thoughts
  • danielfgomEnglish
    2921·
    6 months ago

    We have this already. It’s called Ubuntu + Gnome

    • shaytan
      234·
      6 months ago

      Gnome isn’t bad, at all. The team has caused controversy and made mistakes, but gnome’s experience is great.

      Talking about ubuntu, snaps suck, and it is more “bloated” than what you’d expect, but still, ubuntu isn’t half bad. Is mint better for what the ubuntu audience wants? Yes. Does ubuntu still work well? Yes

      And ubuntu server rocks

    • umbrella
      121·
      6 months ago

      even with all its faults and shitty maintainers, gnome is among the best ux of any de.

    • TheGrandNagusEnglish
      101·
      6 months ago

      Gnome isn’t enshitification just because you prefer a different DE ffs

      • danielfgomEnglish
        23·
        6 months ago

        To quote Clem, head of Linux Mint: “At a time where GNOME applications are less and less designed to work anywhere else than in GNOME, a project like XApp is extremely important.”

        Libaidwata breaks backward compatibility with older gnome versions and amongst other things doesn’t allow theming natively, so the Cinnamon team are going to have to fork off and maintain the older code which works so they can continue to have theming and stuff with Gnome apps.

        Gnome seem to like doing the opposite of the Linux philosophy which says interoperability should always be a priority so that the code can be shared as freely as possible.

        I can’t tell whether they are stupid or lazy over at Gnome. It’s not enough to strip the DE down to nothing but now even the code that worked with previous, gnome still widely used, is being dumped.

        They are a little island unto themselves.

        • TheGrandNagusEnglish
          50·
          6 months ago

          That’s a whole lot of waffle without saying anything of substance.

          “Gnome apps are designed primarily to fit into Gnome 😡😡😡” is not what enshitification means.

          • danielfgomEnglish
            24·
            6 months ago

            Purposely breaking backwards compatibility knowing full well that other FLOSS DE’s rely on it is enshitification of the worst kind.

            We all lose in the end.

            • TheGrandNagusEnglish
              61·
              6 months ago

              Not 👏 what 👏 enshitification 👏 means 👏

              Gnome can theme their own apps however they like. It’s their project.

      • umbrella
        70·
        6 months ago6 months ago

        snaps (and the way canonical is pushing them) are awful at best. snaps are the one reason ive been meaning to hop right now, but its not the first time canonical pulls shit like this.

          • milicent_bystandr
            40·
            6 months ago

            a) having apt packages link a script that downloads the snap. That’s the first problem I had, back when I used Ubuntu as as snaps were rolling out. It gave me big trouble updating on bad internet connection.

            b) making the server fixed and proprietary, restricting the freedom to do things differently and offer different changes to other users, that we’re used to in the Linux and FOSS world

          • umbrella
            20·
            6 months ago

            in addition to what the guy said:

            how it doesnt respect standards like XDG, and how painfully slow it is.

              • umbrella
                20·
                6 months ago6 months ago

                not at all. speaking as someone who replaced snaps for flatpaks because this specific issue was bothering me a lot.