As others have said, lemmy.zip might be a better instance for you than .ml.
In general, I’d say people are nicer here, more arguments in good faith, which I like.
Politics range from socialism to anarchism. Any thread on any topic is a good place to discuss Linux. No one cares about how many upvotes people have. You may need to actively explore communities and join them if you want. It’s a bit like free software, if you think something is lacking, participate with more content and build up the community. Free software is great, what’s your favorite distro?

Currently, only the Pixel hardware has all the hardware security features GrapheneOS wants. They could support other devices, but then they would have to compromise on security, which is something they don’t want to do. A while ago it was reported that they were looking to partner up with another manufacturer, but I haven’t heard anything about that since.

Iirc, the list is of operating systems that the FSF recommends. You could have a system running 100% free software, but the FSF won’t recommend it if the distro makes it easy to theoretically install proprietary code. It’s fine to run such a system, but the FSF won’t recommend it.

The decentralization is the new and interesting aspect. If that doesn’t matter to you then lemmy might not offer what you’re looking for.

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Could it be that desktop usage in general has gone down? That people use their phones and tablets for browsing and similar tasks. Then Linux would have a bigger share, but maybe not because there are more users.

As a percentage of desktop users or percentage of any users (including people who use their phones mainly)?

I wrote a function to display numbers as words in my native language, which has a lot of strange conventions. The lead dev immediately saw that this was my first attempt at Lua, and optimized my code. Thing is, now it’s broken for numbers above 1000000000, but it’s unlikely that anyone will notice and I was too shy to correct the main dev.

If I may ask, where are you from? The city I live in is a nightmare for cars, the roads were made for horses and walking, narrow and winding cobblestone streets and the city tries its best to keep cars out of the center.

PostmarketOS has a list of officially supported devices. Sadly that list is empty. We can wait but it’s not going to happen by itself. Maybe everyone interested could fund a dev working on getting one device to be officially supported? I don’t know if that would be welcome by the project. My point is, with the current pace, is the goal moving closer or further away?

Polishing dotfiles for the color schemes and vimrc. Version controlling those dotfiles. Using neovim to edit the dotfiles configuring neovim. Scripting the tiling wm to open neovim in a way that fits editing the neovim config. Configuring ansible to be able to deploy the neovim dotfiles quickly from codeberg after reinstalling arch because it’s the weekend and the kernel had some bloat parts so the whole system felt wrong.

You can always use sid. Or debian stable but you do everything that needs bleeding edge in a distrobox.

They also have the CMF for 359 euro, you don’t have to get the expensive one.

Indeed. I believe most users will just switch to flathub. Sort of how most users will install some codecs, but it can’t legally be included in the base install.

It’s about making sure you know what is inside the flatpaks. If you make your own set of flatpaks, you can distribute them with the OS. It’s not that fedora flatpaks aren’t distro-agnostic, you can use them on any distro. They just want a set where they can verify the build process and trust.

I have a second hand pixel with graphene, but what we really need is something that isn’t downstream of google. If enough people switched to graphene so that it actually hurt google, I’m sure they could do things to make life hard for alternative android based systems.

Same. I have installed so many systems that I just want the defaults to be what I’m used to. The OS itself is just a tool to let me work on the things I actually find interesting.

I’ve read the arguments and trust the people who know far more than I do about this, but… I just find it difficult to think of “unlocks automatically” as more safe than “is locked until I enter my password”. I’m open for it, but it just feels strange to me.

The urge to distrohop can be a distraction, but an itch that needs to be scratched now and then. I tend to always end up where I started, but when I do I feel better about it.

It makes perfect sense.