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I think nowadays it might be best to use your personal account as new account can be suspected as bots.

Curious, which subreddit banned you?

To be honest. Downloading Flatpaks from Flathub is the way to go.

And don’t believe the stories that take too much disk space. Libraries that Flatpaks depend on are only downloaded once and are shared with all the Flatpaks.

Good. If we’re being realistic, AI is not going anywhere and it needs to be perseved as a simply a tool among others. Humans still need to be experts. Children needs to learn how to think critically so that they can use it effectively

Self-hosting is a community effort in which the whole community helps each other to self-host their data, including programming the services people use for this purpose. The problem with closed-source software is that we don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes, or if it’s indeed sending telemetry.

Even worse, if that service is ever no longer supported or updated, I’ll be left with data on my server that can’t be used to its full potential, and a service that won’t receive security updates.

Open-source software, on the other hand, is a community effort. If, for example, software is no longer updated or supported, it can easily be forked, and my data can be transferred to the new service.

Sigh… As always, life must be balanced. You can’t go from one extreme to the other. It’s a spectrum. I self-host what I deem important in order to keep it under my control and not on a capitalist platform.

It’s an adventure, each month, you learn more and realize that you can host more services yourself.

I selfhost because I want to be in control of my data and own it. Closed software is the antithesis of that. They’re just bots trying to advertise their software.

I hear you and I respect your opinion.

By basically forking Gnome, sure.

Changing to another init requires major re-engineering and it’s not easy.

That was in 2010. We’re now in 2026, more and more components depend on systemd. For example: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/gnome-to-have-stronger-dependency-on-systemd.98260/

This like comes from distrowatch. Yes means the distro is using systemd:

• 1 CachyOS: Yes
• 2 Linux Mint: Yes
• 3 MX Linux: Optional
• 4 Pop!_OS: Yes
• 5 Debian: Yes
• 6 Zorin OS Yes
• 7 EndeavourOS: Yes
• 8 Manjaro: Yes
• 9 Fedora: Yes
• 10 Ubuntu: Yes
• 11 AnduinOS: Yes
• 12 openSUSE: Yes
• 13 Bazzite: Yes
• 14 Nobara: Yes
• 15 Arch Linux: Yes
• 16 elementary OS: Yes
• 17 antiX: No
• 18 NixOS: Yes

As we can see, the major popular distros use systemd.

Sure, if you choose a distro like Artix that doesn’t use systemd, then yes. However, the major distros use systemd and will continue to do so because it is a critical component of Linux. Once the Linux kernel has finished loading into memory, systemd takes over in user space. Major distros cannot simply switch to a fork on a whim because they need to be completely sure that it is stable and will not cause any compatibility issues.

Let’s not forget that Ubuntu, SUSE and Red Hat are used in professional settings, so they won’t change to a fork.

Let’s be realistic. All these forks will get us nowhere because systemd has become a platform on which major components of the Linux system depend. KDE’s new login depends on systemd, as does Gnome.

These forks are just a reaction to the latest addition. They will fizzle out.

I don’t think running Caddy in a container is needed. All my apps are docker images and Caddy is a system app. I treated as an important OS app.

I’m running KDE Wayland on an AMD 9070 XT video card and I’ve absolutely no problem. Perhaps it’s your system because Wayland has been heaven. Linux is finally a modern OS.

Phoronix’s forum will be interesting… Pop the popcorn!

As the other said, what are the alternatives? All my gaming friends are on Discord. I tried to make them switch to another platform but they won’t budge. I’m stuck with discord.

Free as in Freedom and not free as in beer. I donate to a lot of open-source projects such as KDE.

docker stats

With that command, I get all the stats I need, no dashboard required.