Post #3276442
2026-04-29 16:30 UTC
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@vwbusguy@mastodon.online 2026-04-29 17:41
@bookwar@floss.social @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I strongly agree. Community Linux distributions are inherently made up of "random people" (in this case a Microsoft postgres contributor). That's a feature to be desired and not just a happy coincidence. The fact that the fix landed so quickly in other distros with minimal effort means the open source machine worked exactly as it should have.
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@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud 2026-04-29 19:30
@bookwar@floss.social @vwbusguy@mastodon.online distribution is a form of organization which allows random people to collaborate more efficiently. Distros are notorious for being smarter than upstream and breaking stuff (SELinux and hardening of Firefox), fighting against upstreams (Fedora Flatpaks) and using atrocious build systems, despite better solutions existing. I mean GNOME stack in Fedora have to be literally maintained by paid people, because nobody wants to volunteer themselves willingly to bear that torture. Distros are a cancer that is holding back progress, all that meanwhile constantly saying "we are better than others and know better". And I say it as someone who had the misfortune of talking to Fedora people about Fedora Flatpaks, i.e. the single worst thing that came out of that place. Amount of contempt towards Flathub (and upstreams distributing their own software) was amazing to witness.