Limerance

The qualification is social proof, that you’re from at least middle class background. Meaning you have a little manners and know social codes.

There are many nice and FOSS GUIs for the tasks ffmpeg is usually used for.

Handbrake is a great example for macOS, windows, Linux.

For more advanced video compression Shutter Encoder is fantastic.

Good old AVIDemux has a few other cool features as well, like cutting without reencoding.

There are also a bunch of straight up ffmpeg front ends as well.

Why do people use those shitty websites?

They show up as a fast and easy option without having to research, download, install, and learn to use a more complicated application.

Oh no, someone has a nuanced take! Downvotes incoming.

The issue here is the catch-all terms being used. „Progressive“ is a bit of a mushy term in the first place.

Young people tend to be more idealistic and radical, regardless of the specific political ideology. The young know little, have little experience, and don’t own a lot. That tends to change with age.

Real life experience changes this over time. You notice when ideology and reality don’t align. You notice how implementing an ideology disadvantages you compared to others in some contexts. The cost can become quite high, if you’re deeply ideologically invested.

Yes, people use applications, not operating systems.

If you’re big enough, interoperability still costs and provides little benefit. Vendor lock-in is also a thing between distros.

It’s not in Red Hat interest to accommodate other package managers.

What software for example?

Exactly. Linux is often held high as an example of how to realize tech sovereignty. Most of it is repackaged work by Red Hat. That’s still a dependency. If the US made a law restricting export of source code, this would have immediate consequences to Linux use in Europe.

Yes, it’s activism in the right direction though.

You’re not buying anything. You don’t pay any money.

You should donate to your distro of choice and other FOSS you're using. Developers need to eat.

It’s possible to separate the artwork from the artist. There are plenty of people I don’t like, but still use their software. People have different boundaries of course

Omarchy is one the most interesting Linux distros, I have tried over the last decade. It does a lot of things contrary to the popular and conventional wisdom and is successful with it. The install takes over a whole drive, asks you for keyboard layout, username, and password. Less than ten minutes later after selecting the installer at boot, it was fully installed and updated. I have never seen anything like that.

Instead of trying to be accommodating to new Linux users by imitating Windows or macOS, it leans into the strengths of Linux and tries to actually teach you something.

The keyboard focused UX is very polished and accessible. The integrated themes are very well done as well.

Neovim is the only installed editor. To make it friendlier it includes lazyvim. No other distro does that.

I hope we get more opinionated distros in this vein.

Boring is good. It means it works and isn’t chasing trends.

For example it doesn’t insist you install flat packs.

Bought cannabis seeds from a European breeder.

Die deutsche Politik hat kollektiv versagt was Klimaschutz angeht. Angefangen bei der vehementen Anti-Atombewegung, über Kohlekult, Verbrennerwahn, Solar- und Windskeptik. Alles davon hat konservativ-reaktionär-romantische Anteile.

Der von Linken und Umweltschützern als Sieg gefeierte Atomausstieg war ein Klimapolitisches Eigentor gigantischer Ausmaße.

Den Armen die Freiheit bei der Ernährung einzuschränken ist nah einer „sollen sie doch Kuchen essen“ Einstellung.

Real communism has never been tried.

tl;dr lots of bugs fixed.

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