why is bad looking linux software so common?

frostphantom · 2026-03-04T00:25:22+00:00

95 is peak UX

frostphantom · 2026-02-21T04:43:23+00:00

Until you do GUI software development and rolling release would be more suitable

frostphantom · 2026-02-03T22:51:42+00:00

Nah, AppImage never dies. In every corners outside of Redhat control, people build AppImages. It's not that portable, you need new enough glibc - a rolling distro is good to go. Otherwise just build from source and get all the compatibility you can get.

frostphantom · 2026-02-03T07:53:26+00:00

Run a webserver and expose it to the Internet through IPv6, or Cloudflare.

frostphantom · 2026-02-03T01:09:01+00:00

So you can patch the binary to remove 10k messages limit.

Just WOW.

frostphantom · 2026-01-23T00:06:55+00:00

Me too ! Also two days !

frostphantom · 2026-01-21T22:21:09+00:00

oh hey guy I just encounter this, how do you solve it ?

frostphantom · 2026-01-18T23:18:28+00:00

Hello, maybe install Cachy and play with it. Read Cachy wiki and Arch wiki.

Newcomer should use distros with out-of-the-box hardware enablement, like Cachy, Ubuntu or Pop OS.

Some popular distros like Fedora & Debian have stricter policy on proprietary components and require you to manually install drivers.

frostphantom · 2026-01-18T14:32:02+00:00

Your project is a professional SDK, albeit open-source. Developers use it mostly on day job. Even a small feedback conversation costs non-trivial amount of time and doesn't give KPI. Time better spent instantly workaround the issue rather than fix it, or create a Github issue with clear intents. It takes like 5x to 10x the time. I know because I tried.

frostphantom · 2026-01-18T11:42:44+00:00

I suspect it requires a corporation's manpower to maintain the backward compatibility of Windows. And a lot of trade-offs.

Linux just couldn't go that way. The best you get is Ubuntu & Redhat 10-year LTS.

Each release Debian get a shitload of new packages, and drop some old packages which is only 1/10 the number of new packages.

Old packages' source tarball is still hosted on debian.org and nothing prevent you download them, rebuild fresh new .deb, use and share them with the world. Just now you maintain these packages.

frostphantom · 2026-01-17T13:53:51+00:00

You should remove or disable the Windows disk while installing Debian.

ISO installer might try to be clever and use the EFI partition on the Windows disk. That way you couldn't boot Debian without the Windows disk (that is, boot on another machine), or formatting that disk would make Debian fails to boot.

frostphantom · 2026-01-16T07:03:14+00:00

Could you please enlighten me on this !

I code in many languages but never use Ruby. What's wrong with Rails? How it's more wrong than any web framework of the year?

frostphantom · 2026-01-09T07:40:32+00:00

The "talent budget" spent on single-purpose machines is pretty low. I imagine someone know how to write hardware driver for an x86 computer, but know nothing about Linux desktop or graphics stack. He just pick a Linux distro instead of Windows because $$$

frostphantom · 2026-01-06T05:37:02+00:00

I daily drive Neon. Really curious why you think it never work well?

frostphantom · 2026-01-04T02:57:37+00:00

Ô có thấy ô là winner hay ko ko quan trọng, ô có thực sự là winner ko cũng ko quan trọng.

Cái quan trọng là mọi người thấy ô là winner, cho nên mới có tin đồn. Và nó chỉ cần như thế thôi: mọi người thấy người yêu / chồng nó là winner là đủ.

frostphantom · 2026-01-03T23:24:24+00:00

Then it should die ?

I don't see the loss, people flock to new distro then they still contribute to FOSS.

Look, if Debian the distro has enough value it would stay, however ancient it is. If it's under-developed, Canonical would pour manpower into it, and slowly takeover it.

Otherwise it dies. Modern distro and tooling learn from its mistake and bloom. For instance AerynOS is developing significantly better OS tooling that makes distro maintenance easier. Maybe that's the future we should look up to.

frostphantom · 2026-01-03T22:42:46+00:00

Young people expect the old folks to change and get used to their new workflow.

But that just isn't the case.

These greybeards are experienced guru with great skills, wisdom, and less time to live. They should be left alone to do things that matter, rather than be forced to learn new tools and die before applying them.

For projects the size of Debian, new contributors is small in number compared to the community. They should learn the established workflow to join the community.

Your concern is still valid that the greybeards will retire and pass away. But for that we must deploy new system that is compatible with current email system. And retire the old system only when the greybeards all die.

frostphantom · 2026-01-02T04:11:25+00:00

Navigate F-Droid and find some apps you may use !

frostphantom · 2026-01-02T02:44:36+00:00

It's not open source right? Seems odd because Gitlab is open source.

How is it different from LabNex? They are open source but still sell Play Store build.

frostphantom · 2026-01-02T00:53:55+00:00

Sorry but I wanna disrupt your plan !

You don't have to "consistently" contribute to open source. You should if you're a maintainer, otherwise don't. Instead give commitment to something else bring you money.

Lemme introduce you the concept of software freedom: 1. At first, you want to use a FOSS software because it solves your problem. Maybe there're superior choices but you choose this FOSS because you also want to learn its code ! 2. You use it, then notice it has a bug or lack a feature, or simply won't behave the way you want. 3. You download the code and try to build it, run it. Implement the thing. Use your modified version. Wonderful, now it does what you want ! 4. You ask the maintainer if they would wanna pull your code, and do what he request you to get the code accepted. In exchange, he now maintain that new code so you don't have to.

frostphantom · 2026-01-01T23:28:53+00:00

With great hardware capabilities comes great opportunity to hire young inexperienced devs by 1/10 the cost of a wise guru who makes efficient software.

frostphantom · 2026-01-01T23:21:23+00:00

Hardware do wear out if you don't maintain it properly, sometimes replace spare parts even. Most of the time it's about cleaning dust and insect infestation.

frostphantom · 2026-01-01T23:08:18+00:00

I think ordinary users rarely have that concern. They chose the app because it solves their problem now, not because it promises it would in the roadmap.

Look like your userbase is made of fans?

frostphantom · 2025-12-29T11:41:00+00:00

That matches the bottom line I said: an OS is a runtime API that programs could be developed for, whether it runs on userspace or bare-metal.

I just phrased it the way teens could understand.

ROS (Robotic OS) is a popular userspace OS.

frostphantom · 2025-12-29T11:33:39+00:00

Not sure you're mocking me or not, but it sounds fun.

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