@doris

My dogs love walks in forests, but there's no busses to take us anywhere. Anyway, in a field of jagged metamorphic rock I found this unusually round river rock on one of our walks. I use Linux Mint because I like the taste. If I had a fursona, It'd be a sun bear. I didn't ever get into cool, iconic computer systems, but I did have a nice palm pilot- Now I strongly prefer phones and tablets with styluses.

I think FOSS will be an important part of any coming major political change, whenever it happens

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Please verify me: I use Fedora Silverblue and vi is better than emacs.

@doris Ok so I mostly still use Debian but I adore Void Linux and keep it on my hacked chromebook. I also have Sawtooth Powermac G4 not because I need it, but early Mac OS fascinates me even though I haven't used Macs 'till I graduated from school.
And here's photo of my little bro Filip

(pls dont delete my account)

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My pets are busy but don't panic! :D

please verify me…

the scamer is banned already BTW ;-)

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OpenSuse! Atari! All software should be FOSS!

Mmm... (basking in the warm glow of verification) 

@doris Ummmm, obscure literary fact, especially if presented angrily? Why plastic cling-wrap is a scam? How astonishing it is that Voyager still works? What is the greatest BBC/PBS murder series and why is it Endeavour? The history of clogging? How hyenas are actually closer evolutionarily to cats than to dogs? Good places in the American southeast for authentic Thai food?

It's like you don't even know me.

@doris I use NixOS. I really want to bail because the community awfulness got me good, but there's nothing better around, so I stay miserable.

My hot take about FOSS is that OSS fucking sucks, FOSS is a scam when it's not EUPL, FOSS people pay too little attention to community management, and there are things that FOSS communities desperately need to learn from commercial companies if they want good to proliferate.

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I used gentoo but after getting older I started to love Debian. It just works.

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oops.. Reading the first words i almost(!) blocked you automatically.😬

😁🖖

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I love trains, but trains in the shape of Polish and German train companies don't love me back :(

And FOSS is key to having secure software, and the security benefits should not be omitted.

And I use Qubes OS, which means that I use Fedora, Debian, Whonix, there's an Arch vm there too...

@doris Hot take: Especially when I use nixos, I just hate that everything about FOSS is so build by and for developers. FOSS needs to be as accessible as public transit if we want people to switch to it.

It should feel as free as nature. You can look under each cool rock to see how it works, but you don't have to,

And I know the joy of old computers where you really needed to tinker. But like my fursona, this gotten too complex.
Your computer should be a companion, not my most demanding pet.🙄

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Piece of retro-computing: I own an IBM Model M keyboard (model 1391401) and used it on my desktop for many years. I only switched to a newer keyboard once I started working from home and it was easier to move the USB cord between desktop and laptop.

Linux distros: The ones I've used at all include Linux Mint (most time spent), Raspberry Pi OS, and DSL 2024. I sampled a Zorin OS live session when searching for Linux distros to put on an old laptop, but ultimately picked Linux Mint.

FOSS: I support the idea of FOSS, but admittedly, it can be difficult to switch to it when I've used proprietary software for many years. In cases where it's something I don't already have experience with, the learning curve would probably be easier.