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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When real life does not match up with the description given by social rejects on a site notorious for infidelity

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The legal grounds: The oil was shipped by a US company in violation of US law. American companies can't do business with an organisation that the US government has designated as a terrorist organisation. Thus American authorities siezed the ship and its cargo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are not. I do not refer to the package called "LibreOffice". If you search for "office" on the Windows Store, you'll see a bunch of LibreOffice clones that are not branded as such and are not free of charge or contain advertisements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is like the people who repackage and rebrand LibreOffice and then resell it for $10 on the Windows Store to gullible users.

And the worst part about that is that it doesn't even break the law.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

More likely a case of "confidently being paid to lie"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not, but what distros frequently top the list of "user-friendly" distros?

Ubuntu, PopOS, Fedora, and friends.

Maybe it's not how it should be, but that's currently how it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it is unreasonable because a Windows user (i.e. myself) can quickly get up to speed with MacOS within five minutes without the need for external instruction. I can manage a MacOS system perfectly fine even without any prior knowledge of how it works. I can figure out how to configure the settings to do what I need it to do without needing to search for how to do it online.

GNOME took almost a week to get used to and remember where things are located, such as what is located in Settings, how the task flow works, and so forth. I never got used to the "disappearing dock". I had to use an extension for that. GNOME is just way more different than the others. Meanwhile, my grandpa picked up Cinnamon as a lifelong Windows user within five minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I love and use GNOME daily, but I think it's still the case that the interface "needs some getting used to" for a Windows/MacOS user. The design paradigm is just not familiar or self-explanatory to anyone who has regularly used desktop computers in the past decade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't say that the dislike for the symbol was rational; I just said that I understand how people could come to dislike it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hope your realise that people can understand why others think in a certain way without agreeing with that way of thinking. You seem to think that because I said that I can understand why Finnish people might not like the hammer and sickle, I must therefore support banning it. I don't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I'm not gonna say I agree with this or defend censorship but when your country got invaded by the most famous communist country in history and had a bad time under their rule, then it's quite understandable why people there don't like symbols associated with said country.

The entire affair is just a mess of history. A fascist dictatorship being replaced with a communist one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

This problem is pretty common across most parts of the Linux space. Everyone wants to volunteer coding work, which is great, but not what's desperately needed right now.

The Linux community needs more than programmers, or else it will consist only of programmers. We need UI/UX experts, or we'll never have the simplicity and ease of use of iOS. We need accessibility designers or we'll never match up to the accessibility of MacOS. We need graphic designers and artists or we'll never look as good as Windows 11. We need PR professionals and marketing experts or we'll never be as notable as the Windows XP startup sound.

We don't have enough volunteers that fit into these categories. The next best thing you can do is contribute your money so that your favourite project can hire the people they need.

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