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More examples of the Linux distro world telling us that they know better than all of us, and in spite of decades of something working well one way, this new way
by johnklos 6y ago
More examples of the Linux distro world telling us that they know better than all of us, and in spite of decades of something working well one way, this new way, which just happens to benefit certain large monopoly-aspiring companies, is better.
Disabling "fallback" to Cloudflare, Google, et al, is what everyone should do. The idea of "fallback" is completely and horribly flawed, and only an idiot or a corporate shill could think that it's a good idea.
- HeckFeck 6y agoThis might explain the growth in distros that expect the user to install and configure his own packages with minimal changes from upstream. Such include Void and Arch. As an anecdote, it took me a while to tweak my Void installation to be just right, but I've had no surprises like that. The distro offers you the choice of any or no network manager, any DNS resolver, ALSA or Pulse, etc and assumes nothing. The guidebook specifies how to configure your choice of these packages too. It's unfortunate to see well-known distros go this way, but there are others who keep user choice alive.
- nix23 6y agoThe Linux community is terrible in that...it's always "let's reinvent the wheel but this time we make it square".
- bartvk 6y agoThe Linux community is hugely varied. What part of the community do you mean? If you feel that particular part of the community isn't serving you, then there must be a distro that caters to you.
- nix23 6y agoYeah the Berkeley's. >What part of the community do you mean? The btrfs, epool, lvm, kernel panic disabler, lxc and systemd especially.
- viraptor 6y agoI think you missed the point in the article. The distro removed the fallback to Google and CloudFlare. How does that benefit them?