Dario

I went through every comment left in the AUR for hyprland-git, but I failed to find a single rude comment from anyone. Was the comment deleted by an administrator?

I have yet to read of a truly obscure distribution, so here is mine: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. It is Arch Linux minus non-free software - every bit of software considered not fully free is rigorously left out. In respect to other GNU/Linux distributions, its stance against non free software is very strict. It is one of a handful of GNU/Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. I have used it as my main operating system for more than ten years. The absence of proprietary firmware can be troublesome for most. While officially unsupported, it is technically possible to load proprietary firmware, but you may need to jump through hoops to install and use some proprietary software as is the case for proprietary firmware. Another downside is that some packages, especially from the KDE project, can be outdated due to lack of manpower.

Only a madman would strive to “normalize” sexual abuse, whatever that means. You are assuming that I am a bad person, but I think I am an all-around good person. I think I am fun and a good company at parties.

His request was not outspokenly abusive, but it was a passive-aggression. It is a tactic employed by some American left-wing supporters to make people feel guilty for something not intended to cause harm either directly or indirectly.

What’s “SA”, by the way? Are we also supposed to ban “sexual abuse” in an appropriate context? Of course I am not an enemy of victims of sexual abuse, though I am quiet clearly an outspoken enemy of such “woke” or “leftist” ideologies.

The amount of downvotes you received for your comment is enough to address that not everyone is on the same page. Indeed, this is an indication that a non-negligible number of people do not uphold your point of view. In my opinion, the original poster was being overly polite to promptly accommodate the taste of a portion of the American audience and, by extension, that of some international community influenced by it. It is your opinion and that of someone else that the use of the word rape is not appropriate to describe - albeit metaphorically - an unpleasant color combination for a computer program. In my country and in much of the rest of Europe where such ideas are not yet widespread, the use of a word that carry a terrible meaning to it is not enough to elicit such horrifying memories even to those who suffered from that experience.

You are assuming things to a certain degree of confidence that may or may not hold true to an international audience.

It’s generally better to use words that don’t bring with them the same issues.

If he feels that this particular word does fit the frustration of his experience - albeit not as traumatic as sexual assault - who are you to finger wag his choice? You think it is generally better to avoid it. To someone else, this word may be fit for the purpose.

It normalizes a word and desensitizes it, making it less likely for victims to stand up.

Stretching things to such dramatic consequences is your personal point of view. It is not a fact that the use of a word to describe sexual assault in an unrelated context will lead to under-reporting.

The fact is that using words that bring up topics of SA despite that being an extremely sensitive subject is a bad thing.

Again, this is not a fact: it is your opinion that this is a “bad thing”. You are taking for granted that this is a bad thing.

There is nothing to be gained at best, and at worst you’ve resurfaced horrifying memories for others.

There is to be gained that he fully conveyed his frustration using the word he saw fit. In a democracy, a society at large should be free to use the word they prefer, even for artistic license, if they wish to do so. What if a victim of sexual assault happens to hear this same word in a work of fiction when zapping on television? It is my opinion that if someone is triggered up to this point for reading a word, even if it was a victim, it is a problem that the person should bring up with a therapist. In a democracy, I think that such personal issues should not trample upon freedom of expression.

I assume you are American. Despite America’s ongoing culture war over so-called “leftist” or “woke” ideologies, the use of strong words to describe an unpleasant experience that does not exactly match that thing is not frowned upon in other countries. American morals do not stretch all around the world. Given the amount of downvotes you received, not everyone is on the same page.

What if he wants to use that word anyway to convey the message of a particularly unpleasant experience? Is he free to do so?

Why is it preferable to avoid using the word rape to describe something different from sexual abuse?

Exactly. Having so many projects spun from the main distribution just for porting to different architectures is uselessly fragmented. This RFC will make Arch Linux officially ported to architectures other than x86-64 under the same infrastructure. Among other benefits, it should bring better maintenance. I think this is huge.

This is what we needed. I am looking forward to see where it leads.

I actually like this kind of light-hearted spirit. I dream of a future when this whole woke culture thing will be a thing of the past.

I use Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.

Besides video games, I need no Windows software at all. So far I have successfully played every single game I wanted to play, hundreds of them, ranging from small independent titles to AAA features without resorting to Windows. While I am aware that online play can be a problem on GNU/Linux, I don’t do online gaming. Sometimes, especially in the past, I may have to come up with some serious tinkering to enjoy a flawless experience, but ultimately I have never failed to run a Windows game on GNU/Linux as if it was a native title.

Underrated comment.

I have used booster since its inception. Super fast, never had a problem.

Interesting. Thank you for the heads up.

Not related to your experience, but there is HuggingChat, an open source alternative.

Me too.

Paragraph «Don’t», bullet point number 3: Don’t look at any Microsoft source code. https://wiki.winehq.org/Clean_Room_Guidelines