• hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      28 days ago

      Linux has been having issues for a few years now. They’ve been going an obfuscation route with GNOME3 and systemd. Red hat basically decided to contractually kick people out for doing the traditional CentOS thing ever since they decided to change what the official CentOS does.

      The worst thing is, Debian also started using systemd.

      • CutestFox@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        No, systemd and GNOME are not part of mainline, and also GNOME and systemd arent obfuscated

        • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
          01·
          28 days ago

          While its possible to find or build a distro without systemd, most of the big names that you would introduce people to use it:

          Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSUSE

          Hell, Arch uses it

          I do get your point about GNOME, and I don’t use a DE anymore so I might be outdated, but Gnome and KDE were the big two back when I used it.

          I say obfuscates because gnome configuration is now largely binary, whereas gnome2 used to be text files. The same goes for systemd- the logs are now binary files with journalctl instead of text files

          • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            28 days ago

            I think you are either trolling or you fundamentally don’t understand, what you’re talking about.

            Nothing is obfuscated. You can download each and every code file, audit it, and build the binaries from exactly that code. You can even compare the binaries to the ones provided by major distros thanks to reproducible builds.

            Just because you don’t understand code, doesn’t mean it’s obfuscated. Following that logic, even a loaf of bread is “obfuscated” because you don’t understand sour dough.

            • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
              0·
              27 days ago

              That’s not what I’m saying. Yes, it’s open source and you can build the binaries itself. I’m saying that the process is obfuscated or complicated because instead of text log files, you have to use journtalctl to view them.

              Then again, someone said it may be text files with markers so I have to look into that

              • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
                1·
                27 days ago

                Are you really sure, you’re using “obfuscation” right? Because that implies that someone intentionally makes something harder to read to hide something. That’s not the case here. Nothing is hidden, it’s all there, the formats are well defined and easy to read.

                • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  01·
                  27 days ago

                  Nothing is hidden, it’s all there

                  Yeah, of course, it’s all there in binary. For programs of course that’s not a problem, but for data that you may need to look at any time, it is. It’s harder to interpret both for humans (significantly) and both for any program that want to make use of it (unless they use the specific library that came up with the format, and by that also pulling in all its libs transitively)

                  Binary data is not much less obfuscated than the system files of windows. It’s all there, you can read it

            • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
              01·
              27 days ago

              I’m not sure I totally agree with him, what I’m sure is that I don’t agree with you, because you clearly haven’t read his comment.

          • the_doktor@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            28 days ago

            Oh no, not binary files that are well-documented and you can know exactly what they’re doing!

            Also, the journalctl files are just text with useful markers embedded in them to be easier to filter and search. Run strings on the journal files and see they’re just text with metadata in them.

            • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              27 days ago

              I didn’t know that the are text files with markers…

              If that’s true, I may hate it less. I’ll have to try that

        • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          28 days ago

          Yes, I am aware. But none of these distros are distros I would introduce to someone new to Linux.

          • Makussu@feddit.deEnglish
            01·
            28 days ago

            If any of the people you introduce to linux would care about systemd

            • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
              01·
              28 days ago

              Or have any clue what systemd does out of the gate, especially on a more user-friendly distro having never used linux

              • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
                11·
                27 days ago

                That’s a bad point. What that logic introducing someone to windows is not bad because they don’t know about it’s data mining components anyway.

                I’m not saying systemd does that. I’m saying that you basically said: “they wouldn’t know even if that was true, so it’s fine!”

                • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
                  0·
                  27 days ago

                  Huh? All I was saying was that someone who’s brand new to Linux is going to be up to their eyeballs in their new system to barely comprehend the very concept of an init system, especially on the more polished, user friendly distro that do a good job of keeping those mechanisms under the hood.

      • the_doktor@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        28 days ago

        systemd doesn’t obfuscate shit. It’s Free software and you know exactly what it’s doing. Stop spreading misinformation.

    • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
      33·
      26 days ago

      Except you can simply debloat and disable everything with a single script. Linuxbros are the biggest misinformation spreaders around windows.

  • Zeroxxx@lemmy.idEnglish
    31·
    27 days ago

    Pirating Windows for what? It works as full version even if you let it be, watermark does nothing.

  • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    When monopolies exist. How everyone didn’t care for the last 25 years is even wilder. Adobe has been controlling the design communities forever *flips water bottle

  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    Krita has a better brush engine and the AI plugin is amazing. The live AI painting with layers is so cool. It’s like magic

  • matcha_addict@lemy.lolEnglish
    31·
    27 days ago

    Piracy is cool, but I prefer to use community-driven software rather than ones driven by corporate profits. I prefer a model where many can contribute to it, fork it, and for which making integrations is much easier thanks to its openness.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    27 days ago

    If you want actual libre alternatives - Manjaro GNOME Linux, Krita with the AI Image Generation plugin. I’m sure someone else can suggest one for the third one.

  • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    28 days ago

    Not that I condone piracy, but I thought photoshop switched to a SaaS model from CS6 or so that made it unlikely to be pirated?

    • JackOverlord@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      28 days ago

      It’s still possible and last time I used it, it was about as easy as can be.

      When I last did it, you just downloaded the regular program, installed it, then you ran a patcher and that was it. This was a couple years ago now, but Adobe already had their current business model.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    01·
    27 days ago

    Yarr, ye by digging yourself a Mass Grave if you be running them Next Gen programs of the P variety.

    Honestly, though, how long is that going to work for you? Windows 10 runs out of service like next year, sooner for most versions. It’s just not sustainable.