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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • IMO error messages should be as short and precise as possible (the typical user doesn’t read past the word “error” before phoning support), with the option of not having them translated (this makes researching a particular error message online much easier). Please leave out “contact so-and-so” crap, because it leads to people excessively contacting that particular person for shit they could easily fix by themselves.




  • Your mileage may vary, but it’s still possible to install some distros without those nonsensical containerised “package managers”, or to at least remove them after installation. It unfortunately takes an increasing amount of effort, especially in distros that are actively trying to push their flavour of containerised package manager. (Totally not looking at Ubuntu and Snap)

    What is working in our favour here is the fragmentation, which will prevent, or at least slow down a too widespread adoption of those systems.




  • I prefer quality over quantity. Spammers, advertisers, “influencers”, brainless users consumers who can’t tell the difference between an “app” and a website, and other “mainstream” phenomena can stay in their corporate internet cesspits. Their absence alone makes a platform a lot more pleasant to use.