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Stop making Linux distributions, make applications instead (makealinux.app)

submitted 1 year ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

+1 90% of apps people use are web browsers or native apps that still require internet to function. Fighting the good fight is gonna take a lot more than a few bored devs taking on a desktop Linux side project or two. Unfortunately accomplishing and keeping up with the scope, utility, and usability that freedom violating proprietary applications provide requires the resources and hierarchy of a large organization. We need well funded non profit organizations and government sponsored free software more than we need a few weekend GitHub contributors pushing PRs to their 56 star library. (As much as I, a developer, love and appreciate those 56 star libraries)