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Fireship’s latest vid spreading the Linux desktop to 500k+ viewers (youtu.be)

submitted 6 days ago by otto@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Awesome to see Omarchy getting more visibility! Fireship’s vid spreading the Linux desktop to 500k+ viewers is huge!

I don't use this distro myself, but I still cheer for anything that helps motivate Windows users to make the switch.

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[+] melroy@kbin.melroy.org -12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I just rather want to have open-source software separate from politics if you don't mind.

EDIT: And before people saying I'm a nazi or something.. I'm not.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 5 days ago

I do in fact mind as non-political is usually just code for "lets be horrible to women and minorities, and if you say anything you are being political"; besides I don't think you could describe both the free software software and the later open source software movement as anything other than political.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago

You think allowing weird slavery shit in the community will bring more people in?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Having open source literally is political as it stands opposed to close and proprietary code. You can't have it without being political.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Free and non-free code is more about a economic system and maybe a legal system.

But I don't think it has anything to do with the political system.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 3 days ago

It is. Let's look at activitypub, a protocol that allows decentralised services to talk with each other. The protocol is auditable, viewable and modifiable by everyone aka open source.

Everyone can participate in it's development.

Closed source on the other hand is not auditable, viewable or modifiable unless you are part of the organisation. Only those part of the organisation can participate in it's development.

Furthermore the open source nature allows to fork by anyone for whatever reasons. Closed source doesn't allow that.

Changes in a source can affect everyone involved. In close source you can only assume what changed, see YouTube as a recent example or algorithm changes on Twitter or not being able to use your favourite software.

So yes open source is political.

[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@DmMacniel @melroy It is only political because politicians are conflicted: they make money joining boards of walled-garden firms, and owning stocks in such entities. Take that away and open source would be a no-brainer.

#opensource #4opens

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Well we are sadly far from the communist utopia though.