People are wondering why I'm building this. Is it for fun? No. It's because Linux SUCKS. Nobody can do anything anymore. We're at the height of AI and I'm stuck on a four year old distro. The new releases are all totally unusable. Why aren't we seeing new distros coming out left and right? Linux devs are stuck 20 years in the past stressing out about Wayland still and probably rewriting everything by hand in Rust. It's so unusable most people have switched to MacOS already, but I refuse to give up on Richard Stallman's vision. Yes I'm having fun with it. But at the same time I'm kind of mad that nobody can do anything and I have to do everything myself. Nothing ever works until I touch it.
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I'm building a Nostr-based operating system. Yes, like one you install on your whole computer. :trillian-drunk:
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rafael_xmr 1 week ago
TRUE. why stallman's vision though? you support bitcoin/monero you're already far off from what he believes
I started my journey on Ubuntu. Then around the same time they started adding spyware, elementary OS came around and this was the greatest thing ever. I used it for years, installed it on dozens of computers including for many other people. Then it deteriorated. The lead dev had some kind of mental breakdown and much of the energy splintered into Pop_OS. So that's where I went. It was not as good as the original elementary OS (nothing since then ever was), but it was acceptable for a while. Now they rewrote the whole thing in Rust and it's fucking awful. Nothing works. I've been eyeing Fedora as a replacement, but is Red Hat corporation really our savior? I've looked at Omarchy which also sucks. Everything requires tinkering and nothing has a cohesive vision. Meanwhile the news we get is "Hannah Montana Linux is so back". tl;dr Pop_OS
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Constant 1 week ago
Now i generally don't trust you to design anything right in terms of Nostr, and ive been contemplating a Nostr based OS for a long while now. So lets have a call before you make a bunch of things replaceable events for no good reason at all 🧐. After that you can ignore me anway and fuck it up regardless
Yeah Pop is total ass. I actually left it for Fedora because it wasn't working on a System76 laptop they installed it on lol Fedora KDE right now is by far the best experience I've had in 17 years as a GNU/Linux user.
Ive only ever been a Debian user, but Ive heard so many good things about fedora Im gonna have to look into it more
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Alan Siefert 1 week ago
Arch Linux KDE here and I have no complaints other than the very occasional update that breaks something. It’s almost always quickly fixed though and I accept that I’m using a bleeding edge distro and shit breaks sometimes.
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rafael_xmr 1 week ago
He's old and living in the past like linux πŸ˜ƒ and we can build off his domain specific influence and add up even brighter and more important beliefs like free and open source money, free markets for all, etc
What does a "nostr based os" do differently than a regular OS? I'm guessing it isn't just some "networking neighborhood" type functionality in some @ application?
I'm all for options but I strongly disagree with you saying that you can't do anything on Linux. I've never run into a "I wonder if I can... nope, guess not" sort of situation with it πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
Games with anti-cheat work on Linux unless the devs intentionally disable it. LibreOffice is better than MS Office. Something like 95% of games just work on Proton (with the remaining margin often being plausible with some tweaks). I've never had any major issues with Wine but I go for FOSS alternatives first anyway. I've had one Wayland breakage to date. The Rust migrations are dumb, I'll agree, but again: haven't had any major issues with it so far. Either I (and many others) am getting extremely lucky OR the "nothing works" argument is a gargantuan exaggeration.
Again, they CAN work. The devs put no effort into letting their games work on it. In some cases (Destiny 2 is a prime example), they actively OPPOSE Linux. In other words, anti-cheat games not working on Linux is 110% the fault of the developers. I didn't say EVERYTHING works. Just that the majority of things work. Claiming otherwise is just cope.
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rafael_xmr 1 week ago
yes but as always "never meet your heroes" he would likely see us as his enemies unfortunately even if sharing a part of beliefs
> I refuse to give up on Richard Stallman's vision You're vibecoding hurd?
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Jamie 1 week ago
Strongly disagree. Linux is awesome!!!
Like what, though? Genuinely curious what gives you trouble on it.
This is why I only unite with people based on one or two issues. I don't care what his other beliefs are. We agree on software openness. I just wouldn't force anyone to adopt his preferred licensing. I agree with the voluntary aspect of FOSS
Linux sucks : no I disagree on this, but I must admit it is still VERY DIFFICULT to give fully up on Windows yet ( mostly for gaming, and I have lots of old games , and not all of them are fully playable yet...). Another Distro ? ok but please, we need a real compatibility feature for windows app , and mostly an ERGONOMIC one. I'm not a developer and I don't have the time to explore all tips and code to make it work. ( WINE does suck now yes... ;) )
sad but true. cannot use ubuntu any more.... and everything u try is just so much work. I was forced by company to use macOS since one month and coming to this exact conclusion.... View quoted note β†’
im not wondering why. but i cant wait to hear the reactions to β€œTrump’s former social media guru vibe codes an OS because Linux sucks.” πŸ˜‚πŸ€Œ
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