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Citing PulseAudio adds nothing here. Distros decided to ship it early, just like systemd later ... that choice wasn’t pushed by Poettering. Dragging in an earlier project without making an actual technical or governance argument is just character framing. It’s not evidence, it’s a smear.

No, I decided to include it to explain the emotional response to Systemd. I didn't mean to offend anyone. That stuff didn't work and broken things were pushed on people again, that's why some revolted.

PulseAudio never really got stable though, people switched to PipeWire so they wouldn't have to deal with it.

> idk why Arch doesn't invest in whats standard in every other major distro

Because Arch maintainers are a bunch of elitist gatekeepers that don't accept any level of knowledge that is lower than theirs. You can see that through every forum interaction generally and any discussion about the installation process specifically.

Arch is great btw. It could be greater, if all maintainers would quit.


All the points you list contribute to the Internet being neutral or not, therefore of course these items come up in discussions.

That's Germany in a nutshell.

2026 - 40 = 1986 was right before more mainstream internet adoption. Yep checks out, Germany today.

Were the trains running on time in Germany back then? They certainly were 20 years ago, so I assume they were in the 80's.

Maybe "strictly worse than 40 years ago"?


Microsoft never said that, that's a myth/common misconception

Okay, at least I haven't dreamed it: [1]

> Although Microsoft claimed Windows 10 would be the last Windows version, eventually a new major release, Windows 11, was announced in 2021.

Where does the misconception come from? Do you know where I could read about it?

edit: it seems you are right, a dev said Windows 10 was the "last version of Windows" which was true but was interpreted as being an absolute statement when he really probably meant "at this time".

Thanks for correcting me!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_version_hist...


Answering after your edit:

Yes, Jerry Nixon claimed something like that (he's not just a dev though). But Microsoft never confirmed that, so it's just a statement by one person.

The Wikipedia quote is problematic, because it doesn't reference any sources for their claim. Whoever the author of that paragraph, it's journalistically bad practice not providing any sources to that claim.


Yeah, we can find quotes from various articles on the web and I did between writing my comment and my edit (I was on the phone, I didn't bother citing them here).

Wikipedia articles should source everything indeed, it's not that it's bad practice, it's against the idea of Wikipedia not to.


Same. We used to host a GitLab instance in our enterprise. As a sysadmin that used that only occasionally, let me tell you, it took me a hundred times the time to figure out how to do something than actually doing it.

Even just finding the source code or issue tracker was like hidden behind layers of layers in the navigation.

No we're hosting GitHub. Shits never been easier. GitHub also has its ugly sides, but the ugly sides still are better than anything in GitLab.

I hate GitLab with a passion.


Just move to Germany, we have all you asked for.

No we don't. Banks yes, but outside of banking no one respects this.

Calling it an "anti- Proton campaign" or "benign" is just rhetorical hand waving. Those words let you dismiss criticism without engaging with the substance. Proton did deliberately email people who opted out. That is a GDPR violation, full stop. They are a large, well resourced company; "oops" is not an excuse. Criticism over that is not hysteria or bandwagoning, and blaming people for speaking up instead of the company for breaking the rules is weak.

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You said all of that already and I replied. If you're not answering to any of my arguments, I'm not going to bother continuing the debate.

Thanks for that quote. Finally something to slap into the faces of those who just refuse to acknowledge that NAT is not a security feature.

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