The state of the industry

I announce that desktop Linux is FUBAR for all practical purposes. Either it is a human resource issue, whereby present developers do not possess enough intelligence, or aptitude, or both for delivering working solutions, or they are malicious players who intentionally do harm.

Window managers are SNAFU. Their basic functions such as window placement, resizing, mini/maximizing, switching, etc, one by one become broken to never be fixed. From the back and forth with developers it is becoming obvious that they are most interested in politics, spin-doctoring, PR and hush-hush rather than in fixing glaring, obvious bugs that should have been noticed and not allowed to make it into releases, if only someone tested.

GUI applications one after another become ever more wasteful in terms of display real estate, with square feet of useless blank space being added into them with every release. It comes down to scary stuff like Thunderbird not receiving new emails for hours but then suddenly waking up and dumping all of them on the unsuspecting user.

The UIs are becoming more and more preternatural and perverted, with good ole CUA being well forgotten. Everyone is outdoing themselves in inventing their own user interactions that require a steep learning curve and memorizing of non-standard key combinations etc.

Output formats change and break 3d party integrations.

Multimedia has all but been killed off by the layering of PipeWire on top of PulseAudio. The sound is history. All you get is pops, stutters, burps, and clicks. They are hell-bent on routing the sound through network servers. The purpose is not obvious only to Dawn syndrome retards: eavesdropping. They want to turn Linux into a giant backdoor that eavesdrops on everyone and routes all sounds to the Internet when necessary for them. The quality of your sound is their bottom-most priority, and no one gives a damn.

The distro maintainers' choice of installed packages is always asinine. For example, they install headless JDK on desktop flavors of the OS. Huh? See a shrink, assholes.

All of this happens while there are absolutely no valuable new functions introduced and zero pressure from the user base to make any changes whatsoever and while high-severity bugs are not being addressed. The very process of reporting bugs and getting them resolved faces incredibly sophisticated push back, spin-doctoring, PR, diabolically clever use of language to pass or deny the blame, and other social engineering tactics. One might think that all of those unpaid FOSS volunteers have received expensive corporate PR training because their entire well-being depends on bug reports.

This is it, finita la comedia, Linux is no longer for the user. It is for cloud corporations only, and you must submit yourself to His Majesty Cloud or you will be savagely dealt with.

Forget all of the cute, clever slogans that Linus and his retinue spout: all of that are lies, lies, and nothing but lies. They are now execs with fat stock options, and only degenerate teens from their moms' basements may be still hollering 'Linux rulez, Windows sucks!'. Nothing is further from truth.

I have to stop beating the dead horse. It is over.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 03:00 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
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