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Look, Windows (apparently) displays ads to some users. So even for OSes, if they can get away with it, they will shove ads in our face. Linux is a highly compl
by yubblegum 23d ago
Look, Windows (apparently) displays ads to some users. So even for OSes, if they can get away with it, they will shove ads in our face.
Linux is a highly complex piece of software. It is OSS. And it does not shove ads in face of its users. So my point is if there is a will there is a way.
The question is then why aren't we all getting behind a solid OSS browser? Specially now with AI coding assist, this should be even more feasable.
- palata 23d ago> The question is then why aren't we all getting behind a solid OSS browser? Like Firefox or Chromium? Seems like we aren't, for some reason.
- yubblegum 23d agoWe're this conversation so Firefox is not up to task. And Chromium is connected in some way with the poster child for ad tech and surveillance capitalism. So the point stands: OSS community has shown itself capable of tackling some of the hairiest technical challenges (Linux) and we should not let the notion that 'browsers can only be developed by corporations' stop us from creating OSS alternatives to the current offerings.
- palata 23d ago> OSS community has shown itself capable of tackling some of the hairiest technical challenges (Linux) Has it though, say in the last decade? My first intuition would be that Linux was in a very different situation when it started. And it's not like there are 10 similar open source kernels that were created in the last decades and that got usable enough to be replacements for Linux...