Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On Sat, 3 May 2025 08:16:38 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-05-03 00:02, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 2 May 2025 20:15:40 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

She agreed to using Linux? Women are harder to sell on the idea.

 
When you have on-site tech support...  There is a video of Torvalds
saying how he has to support the wife and kids and he isn't too good at
Linux administration so he tries to keep them on the same distro.

 
Admittedly, it would be strange if Torvalds's own family didn't use
Linux. I'm wondering what they use as a distribution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SofmXIYvGM

This is where he talks about maintaining his family's computers. He
doesn't like Debian or Ubuntu but doesn't say what he does use. The video
is from 2014 but he goes on to talk about political correctness and other
topics of interest. About 25 minutes in he implies he uses GNOME although
his desktop is bare bones. He never says in this talk but other places say
he uses Fedora. He does mention Debian libraries are so old nothing
written in this century will compile on it. Hyperbole but it does suggest
he prefers being on the cutting edge.

Some of the application problems he talks about may have been addressed by
flatpak, snap, or AppImage in part.

He has some remarks on GPL v3 and the FSF.