cyclohexane

I don't use arch

They are of course very useful, please do not misunderstand my post. None of what I said downplays the usefulness of these efforts. I am merely suggesting that the method in which they distribute them is not efficient. Maintaining a whole different Linux distribution just to distribute a different DE configuration is overkill. It is much easier to maintain a package instead.

From the user's perspective, installing Ubuntu and doing "sudo apt install [pre-configured KDE package to your liking]" is effortless and virtually indistinguishable from just installign Kubuntu. You get the full support from Ubuntu, whereas a different distribution may not. You are not needlessly breaking away from Ubuntu.

Honestly, it could even be an install option, like Fedora and EndeavourOS do. Do you miss out on anything doing this vs an entire different distro? I dont think so.

Again, a changed DE is pretty drastic, but it does not warrant a different installation process of the whole OS or system. You should only need to take out the parts you need to, and from a user's perspective, it should be possible to make it as simple as running a command or making a choice.

I agree. Some distributions are truely different distributions of Linux. But those are different distributions of desktop environment. They are not distributing Linux itself any differently, and having to reinstall your base OS for this seems like a waste.

For user friendliness, it would be nice if those "desktop environment distributions" were instead available as packages. Like I can do "pacman -S [your desktop env package]" and it sets up the desktop environment with all its configurations. It should be much easier to do this way, for both developers and users.

You're literally on the c/reddit community

it's back to being awesome

What changed?

it's back to being awesome

What changed?

If you think pointing out that someone is wrong means they're angry, then you must be projecting your own insecurities of being wrong lol.

This makes me want to really dig up my ancient meme collections going back to 2010

If you are doubting that this is one of the most frequently occurring security issues, I urge to search the web about it. It's very easy to verify my claim.

It is one of the most well known, but it also is easy to miss, evidently from how often it happens despite it being very well known.

It's very easy to fix once it's known, but it is easy to go unnoticed.

Unless you somehow think that most app developers are incompetent, in which case I ask again: show me your better version.

It's convenient to completely discredit a large piece of software taking years to develop as "insane" because they made a mistake (one of the most common security mistakes in the software world) when you don't recognize the difficulty and wouldn't be able to make something 10% as big.

And frankly it sounds silly.

There was a discussion about GDPR on mastodon github, and they seemed to conclude that GDPR does not apply to natural persons, which includes most instance admins who aren't corporations or any entities, but just random people not profiting from anything.

Not sure how valid, since they aren't lawyers.