Sorry mate. I love them all! All free software, especially GPL-based but still have high appreciation for the BSDs as well. Even Red Hat that has messed everything up recently, has a soft spot in my heart, with Fedora being the first distro I really enjoyed Linux in 2003 (very first Fedora Core). However, IBM/RedHat make a real effort to become the one and only distro that I may list here.
I am not very familiar with the gaming industry (casual gamer only) but, while the argument is true, the conclusion that the big players can apply monopolistic practices without constraints leaving smaller players unaffected, is simply false.
One of the many values of GNU/Linux, and free software in general, is choice. You don't have to use any particular distro if it doesn't fit your use case or preferences. I don't use Gentoo but really appreciate that it exists. If I ever wanted more control over my system, I could turn to this tried and tested distro. I am quite lazy these days and from a short period of breaking Arch, I started breaking Debian, then staying with Debian stable without breaking it and now I have moved to MX Linux, which is Debian that someone else (the MX/Antix team) have set up in the way that I want without having to install everything myself. But, yes. There is great value in Gentoo (like in Kali, Tails, Slackware, Guix, etc).
Is that all? I can live with that! A few months ago that I checked there were a lot more open issues.
I guess my biggest difficulty will be that the Macbook is my wife's new laptop and she'll kill me if I change the OS... again!
My first comment would be that free software made by a corporation is still free software. Like Eclipse, which was originally made by IBM and is a huge ecosystem, especially for "java and friends." So, there is nothing wrong with VS Code(ium). It is a "proper" open source editor and a very good one (I don't use it though - I prefer EMACS).
As for community-base alternatives (which is probably what you mean), you could consider kdevelop or pulsar. There are other alternatives which are equally good and surely one of them will fit your purpose. You mentioned Kate and I can't find anything wrong with it, especially once you start installing the plugins that are relevant to what you do. Same with Gedit.
I don't get the same impression in my community. I'm pretty sure that we all love capitalism in "millionairs@lemmy.lm" What communities do you waste your time on?
I love Fedora. It was my OS of preference 20y ago. Now I am old and use Debian. Arch was a very shortlived adventure in a transitional period that I felt tired of keep breaking all my OSs out of boredom.
They can all serve the same purpose. The advantages of 7zip are the following:
- It is totally free (as both in free beer and free speach)
- The 7z compression format is superior to rar because it can compress either more or faster (not both though)
- The rar format is proprietary. You are free to decompress but not to compress. In a business setting, you could theoretically get in trouble if you don't have a license. In some countries, e.g. USA, even outside a business setting. But if you have been using winrar forever, I can't see you changing your ways anytime soon! :)
How can it be one? GNU/Linux, Firefox, EMACS, Ardour, Vitalium, SurgeXT, KX Studio (OK, this is repo), Carla, Gnome, Debian, MX Linux, XFCE, KDE Plasma, GIMP I am absolutely sure I am missing more s/w packages that I love but don't come to mind.
Your response is problematic because you wrote it with a healthy state of mind. And that will soon be punishable @KreekyBonez@lemm.ee
George Orwell was 39 years late. Or so we think we know...
I was starting writing here to correct you that it had 48KB (like the spectrums) but thought to check on wikipedia and... you are right! Oh my goodness! 1kb and called a computer! And was a computer!