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The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.
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nixOS is now the official OS of trans people idk what these dudes expect
There's definitely a give-and-take aspect to it. It is possible to reform these dudes once they've cooled down and realized that working with other people is an unavoidable part of free software. FOSS has a lot of interpersonal angst happening nearly constantly for various reasons, mostly rejected changes & wasted work. I don't think there is much money to be had as a right-wing "the left canceled me" person in FOSS so there's less of an incentive to go down that route because your only fans become, like, 4chan /g/ hyprland idiots who can't even program.
I thought Arch was the official distro of trans users.
Arch got power creeped, we had to move to a distro that can handle our unfanthomable might