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Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems | S3kshun8's Lair

｢ Most saddening of all is that the legitimate and valid communal focused ideology that the old guard purports to hold up - is actually being lived and expressed by the corporations those same people would argue are capturing the ecosystem ｣

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Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems

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Glyph

@jbz maybe I don't need to write that blog post about what's wrong with the "distribution" model of the world after all

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Matt Campbell 1d ago

@glyph @jbz FWIW, the strongest defense I've read of the traditional distro model is this post by Drew DeVault: https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/09/Developers-shouldnt-distribute.html and the follow-up about two years later: https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/27/Let-distros-do-their-job.html

Developers shouldn't distribute their own software

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Glyph 1d ago

@matt @jbz to be honest I have never understood these posts. he opens with the thesis that a distro "may feel like an unnecessary middleman to the software developer who just wants to get their code into their user’s hands" and then proceeds to describe exactly that sort of busybody middleman. it describes "norms" but not the benefit or function of these norms, or why they all have to be different. He sort of *alludes* to benefits but doesn't describe how they work

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soc 1d ago

@glyph @matt @jbz You probably also hate unions.

@soc @matt @jbz no

@glyph @matt @jbz 🤡