#distros

Today is my friend Ahmed’s birthday (instagram). He turned 27 today. It is his second birthday during genocide, because he is from Gaza.

Recently my partner Howard and I were able to do some local fundraising here in Taiwan by hosting a small event. We raised money for 6 families we are in direct contact with. Ahmed received 1/6th of what we raised, and used a portion of it to distribute clean water. He wrote a note thanking me and Howard, but all thanks go to him for having the idea, coordinating, and editting this fantastic video as well; thanks also belong to the donors.

Wish Ahmed Happy Birthday 🐈‍⬛

Ahmed loves cats, send a photo of your cat to me if you donate and I will send it to Ahmed!

dante: fedora.

vergil: arch linux

nero: something arch-based like CachyOS or SteamOS

lady: Ubuntu, ol' reliable, never fails on ya.

Trish: pop! OS

Nico: compiled her own distro from scratch (LFS or summat)

Kyrie: debian.

mundus: hannah montana linux

Patty Lowell: mint

Morrison: DSL; damn small Linux.

V: gentoo

urizen: Void Linux

arkham: kali linux

sparda: the original terminal

Eva: openSUSE

Lucia: tailsOS

argosax: dual booter, Slackware and hackintosh maybe.

credo: Manjaro, no, not like the weight-loss drug

Agnus: also compiled everything

For example

@x11-official mad because @wayland-official is trying to do better

@kde-official rightly thinks their interface is better than @gnome-de-official

@arch-officual and @debian-official are... the two main basies of all other distros

Two weeks after I complained about AB 2047, I find out about this other bill, enrolled into law in September, that has Linux distros scrambling for a way forward.

The law basically specifies certain properties of the APIs used to communicate a user's age bracket to a downloadable app and thus (it is assumed) to the developer of that app.

I don't write apps that collect age data, so why do I care? Because the easiest way for Linux distros to comply with the law is to stop licensing their software to California residents as of January 2027.

Problem with Bazzite is that being immutable you have KDE or Gnome options, but can't get rid of them and use LXQT or other lightweight option, short of creating your own spin.