bash isn’t standard on most systems.

ln exists.

I keep them in a Fossil repository (with a few private log-in data stored in a SyncThing folder instead) and I just ln them where I need them.

What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?

You misunderstood: Red Hat The Linux Distribution (not quite relevant for Linux development) is not Red Hat The Commercial Entity (quite relevant for Linux development). However, volunteers repackaging (“distributing”) Red Hat software still don’t change the nature of the software, but that’s a different discussion.

It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days.

I do not do that. What I actually wrote is: By moving from Windows to Linux (assuming you use Linux-libre), you gain a certain level of freedom, but that freedom still relies on commercial entities and their own ideas that are contributed to the kernel. Just because you can see the code, you still can’t decide about the code.

Note that I do not use Windows. You make it sound like I would.

Let’s leave it at that. We probably won’t solve this debate over Christmas, and life is too short to argue about software. :-) Have a good one.

I use neither. Just wondering.

True, sadly.

systemd rocks

I disagree.

the kernel is widely audited OSS

Minus the proprietary blobs, that is.

“Everyone can see the code” does not mean that everyone understands what’s going on, by the way. The X server had had a security hole for 23 years just a while ago. Could it be that “it’s OSS” and “many people read and understand what’s going on” are not the same thing?

You give up all control over your system to other US corporations though, like Red Hat (who are - and should be held, IMO - responsible for systemd) and Microsoft (who contribute quite some code to the kernel). The only system you control is a system you write, I’m afraid.

The point is: If “just simulate a Windows environment” is the best thing you could come up with, chances are that Windows is what you should use anyway.

Average Linux user: “we could just use the Windows totally-not-an-emulator!”.

(They’re this close to getting the point while saying it.)

It’s not

My link collector.

Graphite is getting there

unique

Guix disagrees

I use it with OpenBSD’s relayd and I find it amazing how little maintenance it needs.

Solaris (“illumos”) is not proprietary anymore. Actually, it is the only free SysV UNIX in the world.

“Nobody”. I see. Please try to leave your bubble every now and then. There are quite a few people (including me) who still need those systems, and it is rather disappointing to see that they are left behind without a good reason.

But if you are happy with X, stick with it.

There is no Wayland on some of the systems I use.

It does have a relation. KDE worked just well on most Unices for decades. “Going all-in” on Wayland means that they’ll drop support for all operating systems except Linuces and FreeBSD. There are two explanations for that:

1. They don’t care about (most of) Unix.
2. They actively despise (most of) Unix.

I’m not quite sure where you’re misunderstanding me here. Care to elaborate?

X11 is already perfect as it is. Everything left was fixed in the X11Rx releases.