It’s a cult.

Everything is flawed, there is no silver bullet. But again, it’s still a massive improvement over what we had previously.

Well, that’s the neat part. We don’t need to do that because what Flatpak does, doesn’t matter for them. People can just install Flatpak in their system and they have access to everything. I realise for system components it’s a different story, but that’s not the use case, it’s for applications.

Edit: typo.

And universal compatability. One repo, for all distros. That’s a big plus too!

Amen. I remember having to frequently reinstall the system to keep it performant. Thanks windows rot.

You don’t need servers to have freedom in your computing, just do things locally on your computer. Even phones are surprisingly capable. For a great starting point, I’d recommend F-Droid (AppStore) in GrapheneOS (Android minus the Google viruses), Super easy to set up, and it gets you everything you need. Well, at least for me. There is also a good website called alternativeto.net, If you’re searching for software on a normal computer.

Edit: Plus, if you use Aurora (google play store access programme) with your Google ID, you have access to every paid program on your phone. Also, if you’re an EU citizen, they can’t ban you because they have been ruled a gatekeeper thanks to the DSA and DMA. MicroG, as far as I’ve read about it, since I don’t use it, is only needed for Google Apps, so if you don’t use them, why bother?

If you’re living in the European Union, they can’t, because of the DSA and DMA.

Everyone has been there, including you and me. How is our community supposed to grow if they constantly get chastised for mistakes of the past? If we value freedom in computing, shouldn’t we help others get there as well, instead of being purists about it?

Genuine question: What do you spend money on, on a phone? I’ve never bought anything myself and I don’t know what I could even spend money on.

Speedrunning your 1000 year empire any% (current wr 7y)

Different tools, different jobs. On my computer I also use btrfs, but on the family archive server ZFS (TrueNAS Scale). Right tool for the right job.

Snapshots like btrfs, yes. But I think every copy-on-write system can do that. But I don’t know about the rest.

The two biggest benefits are that it’s basically a finished implementation of btrfs (see data corruption in large pools and raid 5 and 6), as well as being able to encrypt and compress at the same time.

Plus, and I don’t know if this is a ZFS-specific thing, being able to group disks into VDevs and not just into one big raid.

Usually we absorb it through the skin.

Oh dear, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info. I genuinely wish that people would stop using these pushover licenses. I thought it was like the LGPL, but sadly it isn’t. At least the base remains free though.

How so?

But we have OpenZFS, which is under CDDL (=LGPL). So it’s fine.

Edit: I was wrong, see comment below.

ZFS: 🙂

Genuinely, why do people self-censor???

Why would this be a cycle?