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ricdeh , vor 15 Tagen

More like the author is so insecure herself that she feels forced to use these terms in the belief that they somehow strengthen her position.

ricdeh , vor 20 Tagen

That's not what proprietary means. The dualism is proprietary/free (as in freedom), not proprietary/public.

ricdeh , vor 22 Tagen

Absolute you problem. GIMP is some of the best and most powerful FOSS ever made, and better than most proprietary applications. But this is probably just bait anyway.

ricdeh , vor 22 Tagen

How stupid must you be that merging layers takes you hours? It is a single button press. Exporting PNGs is a matter of under 10 seconds. It is clearly labelled in the dropdown menu.

ricdeh , vor 29 Tagen

Imagine your brain not being in your sudoers file

ricdeh , vor einem Monat

Principally correct, but please note the difference between "open-source software" (OSS) and "free and open-source software" (FOSS). They are two related, but different philosophies, and principally, GNU/Linux belongs to the latter rather than to the former.

ricdeh , vor einem Monat

For web browsing, that almost makes no difference. As long as the browser is being updated, the most important attack vectors are closed. Even if there are any exploitable vulnerabilities on the OS, that will stop malware from even getting to them.

ricdeh , vor einem Monat

Yes, using the Wine translation layer.

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

You can be smug and feel superior all you want, in the end, any contributions you could make would be worthless anyway :)

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

That's not the reason. The "PC" marketing term originated with the IBM PC, after which every non-Apple device attempted to make some name-wise connection to the former, spawning a series of so called "IBM PC Compatibles" that have principally lived on design-wise until the present day.

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

You seem to lack an understanding of operating system architecture. Linux is indeed only the kernel and not an operating system by itself. There is endless amounts of primary and secondary literature on that. And from its earliest conception onward, when Linus Torvalds was still at the University of Helsinki and struggled with finding POSIX documentation, Linux (the kernel) never worked as a complete general-purpose operating system without external utilities. In the beginning, those were MINIX based, but Linus then adopted the freely available GNU utilities. So no, Linux is not an operating system and you cannot run it as such without utilities. Now, those must not necessarily be GNU, but I think that the term GNU/Linux is still justified because GNU and Linux are strongly intertwined with each other from the point of the latter's birth until today and into the future.

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

And why would that be? GNU and the Free Software Movement have made an amazing positive contribution to the entire world, including your life even if you do not use GNU/Linux. I find this unwarranted hate on the amazing people that developed the GNU utilities and their equally as astounding work to be extremely disrespectful and quite frankly very petty.

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

Yes, and I would like to add that if you really know what you're doing, you can even fix complicated, deep-rooted problems by yourself.

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

Principally not a bad idea, but run a local model while at it!

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

The Tux reminds me of playing Super Tux Kart today... I really hate that GIMP mascot now,

ricdeh , vor 2 Monaten

Not a weirdo. It is the only reasonable thing to do. Unfortunately, many people lack education about the true extent of mass surveillance / profiling and the potential massive repercussions that it can have for society à la Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ricdeh , vor 3 Monaten

That's the very opposite of the Unix philosophy though.