I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
ROFL. Yes. count me in
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Calling it (edit: using the term) "free software" is a great example of utterly failing to promote your own principles, and stabbing the entire mission in the face. Let's try to repurpose an incredibly widely used pre-existing term, that means almost the opposite of the essence of our entire mission, to mean our mission. And every time people tell us that's moronic, we double down. As we continue to watch people some…
Flatpak is unambiguously and undeniably free and open source software and the fact that you think it isn't demonstrates that you have been misinformed. The Flatpak project is licensed with the LGPL. Furthermore, the vast majority of software packaged with Flatpak is free and open source software. https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak
No, I'm saying that you are making the advocacy mistake of using the term "free software".
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#113I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
Yeah, I clicked expecting it to be some madman who made a multitasking kernel for Arduino. What I actually got wasn't nearly as exciting.
Arduino is just a fancy HAL that hobbyists like to use. So yeah nothing about it prevent you writting kernel.
In fact, the arduino port on esp32 is just a task of FreeRTOS, a multitasking kernel.
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#114This actually looks pretty neat, particularly the integration with Flatpak. One thing that confused me when I first went to Linux a million years ago was the difference in how you install stuff. With Windows you download an exe file, double click it, next next next finish, and you have your app installed. With Linux, every distro is slightly different and it's almost never quite as straightforward to people. I think…
On your mobile phone you install software like in linux, by looking it up in the store. Windows is the outlier
I've seen many times in Linux, the version in app store is different from its website(usually outdated).
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#115I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
I was confused for a lot longer than I am willing to admit.
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#116Aaaaaargh a fucking AI did translate this from English to German when I look at it. Horrible translation. Eine freundliche Distribution. Ok, fuck yes, if it is friendly, does it say good morning and good night? And ask me how I am? "Es ist eine perfekte Kombination aus Erfahrung und Ökologie." Ok, it's about ecology, so something about trees and nature and owls and bunnies? "AnduinOS ist Ihre finale Linux-Distributio…
It's AI translated to danish as well, and it's not good. It gets basic grammar wrong, and it just reads weird and clunky.
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#117Considering we already have Linux Mint which is Ubuntu based with the shite parts removed and where flatpacks are well supported, I wish it would say more about about the unique selling point of AnduinOS.
There's currently a large amount of non-technical Windows users who are being told Windows 10 is going to be no longer supported, and the only way for them to switch to Windows 11 is to buy a brand new device. Anecdotally these people are less resistant to moving to Linux instead than you'd think, and having a distro which looks exactly like windows would be useful. Although I've just been recommending Kubuntu - KDE…
> they seem to be hellbent on destroying everything that gives them mindshare with regular people
I agree. MS is making Win11 hard to swallow while at the same time devaluing the Xbox brand.
But Windows market share is remarkably resilient - especially PC gaming. They can afford to lose some tiny % market share if it will benefit them elsewhere. I don't see the benefit, but maybe someone in MS does?
Would I like to see PC gamers suddenly flip to desktop linux? Sure, I'd be pleasantly surprised. But history suggests that's not the way to bet.
Come November, maybe Windows will go from 95% on the Steam hardware listings to 94%. Although I guess change starts somewhere and that 1% is not to be discounted.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flatpak is unambiguously and undeniably free and open source software and the fact that you think it isn't demonstrates that you have been misinformed. The Flatpak project is licensed with the LGPL. Furthermore, the vast majority of software packaged with Flatpak is free and open source software. https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak
No, I'm saying that you are making the advocacy mistake of using the term "free software".
I don't understand this. The software is free. But calling it "free software" is a mistake?
And I don't understand the advocacy angle. Is any reference to "free" or "open" in any tech-related conversation automatically advocacy (even if the author did not intend to be an advocate for it)?
Genuinely curious. Apologies if it doesn't read like genuine curiosity, I am genuinely curious.
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#119I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”. I can’t be the only one.
The authors name is Anduin
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#120This actually looks pretty neat, particularly the integration with Flatpak. One thing that confused me when I first went to Linux a million years ago was the difference in how you install stuff. With Windows you download an exe file, double click it, next next next finish, and you have your app installed. With Linux, every distro is slightly different and it's almost never quite as straightforward to people. I think…
You can also download an MSI file ... or execute a Powershell script ... or install via chocolatey ... or install via myget ... or install via winget ... or the Windows Store Not quite as straight forward as you are suggesting.
It used to be that simple but Microsoft (and others) are intent on copying Linux here. That would probably be fine on Windows as well as Linux if there was just one standard.