It’s kind of ironic to me that Linux is all for free and open source, but still uses a proprietary platform, and a horrible one at that. Before the fediverse, I’d understand, but now, there is no excuse whatsoever.
I understand that we can’t just get up and leave everything proprietary behind all at once, since we have iPhones and Android phones. We all use proprietary software of some form, but I am of the mindset of using the least amount of proprietary possible.
I will ALWAYS look for FOSS first. I also want to make it as hard as possible for any corporation to track me. They’ll probably still be able to track me, but I’m not going without a fight.
I could say the same about the Linux kernel using GitHub, but I understand how massive of an undertaking it would be to move the whole kernel to another platform. I’m sure there are other factors, too. Anyway, I just wanted to start a discussion and hear people’s thoughts.
Thank you
It would definitely be nicer to see the Linux community grow here.
But hey. I’m on Linux and I’m here with y’all. :)
Why should it leave? It’s good to be omnipresent! You have another linux community here and in many other places.
Many of them are single-issue Linux users and don’t concern themselves with FOSS philosophy
Linux is ubiquitous, it’s everywhere, even on Reddit, even under your bed
Linux is mailing lists, if anything. It’s definitely not Reddit.
side note but you dont need to use proprietary android phones you can flash custom roms to most like GrapheneOS LiniageOS or CalyxOS or you can find a linux phone os like ubuntu touch
You’re talking as if “The linux community” was one single bunch of people.
Reddit isn’t Linux HQ and nor is Lemmy, nor is Facebook. #linux still active on IRC too, but not there either.
100%. I’m relatively new to Linux and to the western world as a whole. 😅
The mods there were crap back in the day. Keep them on reddit.
Subreddits can’t move, they won’t be subreddits then. There are other Linux forums outside Reddit – like this one!
Even if they did… Reddit would just find new mods and reopen it. They wouldn’t let it remain abandoned.
This kind of answers my question. lol. I didn’t think about it that way. I thought they can just bring it all here and that one gets
closerclosed or something. I forgot how reddit works.It’s how they kept everything from dying when they killed third party apps. They openly banned and replaced mods that were keeping their subreddits locked. It was a shitshow, but unfortunately reddit still exists.
Some of us did leave, that’s why you see us here
Bet the Facebook Linux community is bigger than ours.
It is actually.
Um, subreddits remain because they still have subscribers. That’s all.
There’s two reasons why r/linux is popular on Reddit:
- Reddit is popular
- r/linux is popular
The kernel on GitHub is just a mirror - the primary source is on kernel.org
Yeah… would have taken OP 10 seconds to check that. Dumb.
