#Debian
We use words like "sucks" or "is bad" to describe things we get for free and that bothers the ever loving crap out of me, because you aren't shouting into a void. There's someone on the other end. Have some class.
I had a dream that Mozilla were bullied into including a toggle in Firefox that disables all the corpo bullshit (so no tracking, ads, AI, etc.) but they were really pissy about it so they called it "communism mode" and you had to click on a little Karl Marx to activate it
Today is a great day to learn about Debian.
It's far from perfect, but by golly once you learn it it's pretty sweet. Highlights:
- Everything is transparent, sometimes painfully so
- Debian isn't a company
- You still have
apt, sodebpackages still probably work - Flatpak makes desktop use easy
- Hate updates? Debian only releases a major new version every two years.
- Nobody is ever, ever, ever going to sell you "Debian Pro"
If Ubuntu's got you down today, I dare you: give Debian a try.
I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to make it and share it
If you're running Debian, and haven't updated for the whole Copy Fail thing, now is a good time to check to see if you've got a kernel update and plan on getting that done.
New kernels in Trixie, Bookworm, and Bullseye (as well as Forky and Sid).