Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
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Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
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Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
#2End of the world? Finisterra in Galicia, Spain?
That's in the Northwest past of Spain, facing the Atlantic.
As you might guess, the currents and cliffs were so rough that the locals named the place "The end of the world" (Finis Terrae in Latin).
On KDE, the best for the project would be an inmutable distro with Flatpak.
Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
#3Not to scaremonger, are we to expect some extent of software rot on KDE because of this change?
Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
#4End of the world? Finisterra in Galicia, Spain? That's in the Northwest past of Spain, facing the Atlantic. As you might guess, the currents and cliffs were so rough that the locals named the place "The end of the world" (Finis Terrae in Latin). On KDE, the best for the project would be an inmutable distro with Flatpak.
what you describe is not the best for anything.
but sadly is the direction it will go, because people see the dollar signs "when valve buys the license" which will never happen because that ship already sailed.
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#5End of the world? Finisterra in Galicia, Spain? That's in the Northwest past of Spain, facing the Atlantic. As you might guess, the currents and cliffs were so rough that the locals named the place "The end of the world" (Finis Terrae in Latin). On KDE, the best for the project would be an inmutable distro with Flatpak.
what you describe is not the best for anything. but sadly is the direction it will go, because people see the dollar signs "when valve buys the license" which will never happen because that ship already sailed.
For GNU/Linux, Flatpak it might be if GNU promoted a trully FOSS repo; but they already made
their own Flatpak with GUIX, and the inmutable distro it's GuixSD itself with Plasma.
On 'the ship already sailed', Gnome's performance it's really bad compared to Plasma.
Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
#6KDE has done a great job keeping up a good desktop environment. They need to be careful not to let developers determine resource usage, as we got ksysguard replaced with an inferior System Monitor this way.
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#7> But in the end I lost my friends, my colleagues, my job, my career and my family. What’s a spod who just tried to do the right thing for society to do?
I don't see enough people reflecting on this, much less in the open source community. Props to the author for being so honest about it.
HN has a culture that is very eager to promote passionate computing, and I still consider that good thing. At the same time though, we put an immense amount of faith in technology, that "fixing" a problem in code or hardware will make it go away. It's a great religion for motivated tech workers, but also still a passionate lie. There are so many extenuating things that determine success and define your problem space, it becomes almost wasteful to sacrifice your personal wellbeing to "fix" a problem and renew your faith in technology.
This happens everywhere, in startups and open source projects alike. Take care of yourselves, people.
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#8Oof. I've had the experience of ex-colleagues, some of whom I thought had become friends, suddenly stopping all communication with me (In my case because I spoke up against mental and physical abuse against others). It hurt a lot. Hope surfing the wave helps.
Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
#9I would encourage you to reach out the the friends you have worked with. Currently, this other person is controlling the narrative, and your friends may have been fed a very inaccurate view of what has happened.