The license matters. MIT allows for the embrace extend extinguish approach, or for companies to completely ignore contributions back to the main src.

Whatever he says he is doing doesn’t matter. In the long run a MIT license won’t be good. There’s a reason why the gnu core utils get so much work done on them. Because it’s required if you wish to use the code in your commercial applications

Y not gnome web

There is a big difference between what someone says they are doing vs why they are actually doing it

Patents kill innovation. No one should be granted rights to a concept purely because they got to it first. It’s still really.

I didn’t even say anything about copyright or patent?

Competitive improvements the company makes make be kept secret, re packaged, and sold without making contributions to the src code.

Basically embrace, extend, extinguish

The code can be taken and used in close source projects

If you need theming stick with KDE and Qt apps. Gnome considers large amounts of theme to be a hack. Remember in windows there is no themeing so by switching that’s an extra feature you get. Even if half baked

In reality a lot of these desktop standards are competing. Some are working together but some clash. It’s part of the open source model

A general rule of thumb I follow is that if I’m getting a lot of resistance trying to do something, it probably wasn’t designed to do that.

Fractional scaling works better on KDE from what I hear to but I have no idea.

Personal something that has really helped me was switching to Nixos and configuring everything in a nix file. I don’t even complicate it with home manager just plane nix

Nix also makes installing developer binaries a breeze. Number one nix packages as the largest number of packages over any other repo. Two, it provides a very organized method for installing packages

I’m not sure I’ve ever actually killed a system, I’ve booted from UEFI shell manually just to recover systems. Back when I was using arch id just chroot into the system from a flash drive and fix whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Blew my mind too, sad really

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NIXOS, set and forget. It will not change unless you ask it to. Occasionally things might get renamed, but they set up warnings and don’t deprecate old naming for a long time

Why not make them executable and stick them in bin

With some effort I believe so

Plan9 mothra

Gnome browser, I’d use ladybird but it’s not ready yet

You can install imperatively using nice profiles. So you the OP can set up the base distro in a way their SO can’t break. Then any extra software can be installed imperatively using nix profiles. Any installed software will work as normals. Checking the normal places for configurations if their SO even needs to go that far

Nixos with whatever defaults you don’t want her touching, then she can use nix profiles to install extra software if she wants

Second this, works just the same basically

Solves the issue tho

N I x o s