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Þór Sigurðsson

Who is this guy? Computer user since 1976, professional developer since 1984, UNIX user since 1989, Linux user since 1994, SysOP since 1994. Been a Mac user, Windows user, UNIX (hpux, Solaris, SunOS, Digital Unix, Unisys, AT&T…), *BSD, VMS. I’ve done most of it. The past 10 years professional developer, SysOP on the side and now data security specialist at Persónuvernd (IS-DPA).

If I’m not following, please don’t be offended - I am extremely selective for what to keep in my feed.

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  • Þór Sigurðsson@mast.ttk.isOPtoKDE@lemmy.kde.social🧵
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    23 hours ago

    @MentalEdge Thank you for twisting everything I said with an unstable mental state and a lot of anger directed at a random person on the internet.

    In the replies to my post I did get one *proper* reply that clears up the confusion.

    You however should go take a long cold bath to see if you can calm yourself down.



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    @DmMacniel I get that - my point was mainly that by creating a distro of their own, they set a certain baseline, nudging reality away from what the distro (in this case Ubuntu) they use as a baseline offers.

    If you use a vanilla distribution as a baseline and then have your testbed on top of that, then there’s no issue and no mixed messages. But if you create your own distro “based on XYZ” then XYZ isn’t the baseline anymore - and that sets a certain message.


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    @kde 🧵(4/4)

    Leave others to what they do best. Focus your efforts on what matters - there is still a whole lot to do in KDE to make it the best there is. A massive amount of issues to work out in the UI/UX so that drawing in new users doesn’t have to be a long walk on broken glass.

    And the project manager that thought this would be a good idea? Reassign him to making Kcalc better.


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    @kde 🧵(3/?)

    - until it’s in your face and all of a sudden you realize that you perhaps should have voted differently, as all of a sudden everyone is deporting you, GNOME is taking over and you sit in your little corner cowering in fear.

    And no, I’m not talking about a farmer in the US voting for Trump - but there clearly is an analogy.

    Wake up and smell the reality. The reality is - you asked the wrong question. It never was “can we do it” or “do we want to do it”.


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    @kde 🧵(2/?)

    Or what if Heinz starts making their own fast-food chain and only supplies their condiments to said chain?

    This is a bad idea *because* it is reversing the supply-chain, redirecting efforts that should be focused on the KDE ecosystem (the tip of the iceberg) and moves it to the bottom. Away from what matters.

    It WILL eventually lead to KDE isolation, a foundation fragmentation and frivolous forking.

    It is that kind of an idea everyone thinks is either great, comical or satirical