Oooo so there’s only like 5 years of waiting left?

Tech people are always sensitive and unfair. You should get used to it or start seriosly fighting them if you’re not afraid of getting in a legal trouble. As someone already said, it’s probably good that you got banned because the community could hurt you more. Trust me, you don’t want to get banned on a community you’ve spent years and made friends on.

whilst supporting projects that don’t so openly collaborate with hostile states.

Geopolitical propaganda spotted. Reporting…

I usually don’t recommend this distro but Fedora and its derivatives look like something you should consider. It’s known for good support for developers and it heavily utilizes Flatpak. Fast update cycle (6 months) should help in gaming too. You’ll just have to go through the pain that is Anaconda installer.

I don’t care about TPM at all on my personal systems.

They can pull patches from mainstream Linux if they can’t keep up themselves. The project is big but not too big.

Assuming the worst, they might inject ransomware or other highest threat level malware to your system. Though it’s extremely unlikely and the kind of app doesn’t really matter as long as it’s popular.

It depends on what vulnerabilities we’re talking about. If these are arbitrary code execution ones, they may be more dangerous in games since that’s not a kind of app most security researchers will look into. But if we’re talking about in-app ones that let the hacker steal your game stats or something (so only the app’s data), it’s definitely not anywhere near as bad as a browser vulnerability because browsers save much more sensitive data. Also a game isn’t something a bad actor would consider the best attack surface but if they do, it might cause a lot of harm.

Welcome to Lemmy, mister/miss!

It depends on the people and the legal stuff behind everything related to BSD. I don’t think there’s any history of them dealing with stuff like this (at least not that I’m familiar with) and also there are too many variables to consider. It’s impossible to make a meaningful guess here imo.

EDIT: btw early congrats on the month’s most controversial post. I guess you’re even beating me with this one.

At this point it looks like the problem has to be absolutely horrendous for people to think of a fork seriously. It doesn’t look bad for geopolitical actors at all ngl.

Anything can get more minimal. But it wasn’t my point. My point was that many good FOSS apps are like this (and they’re obviosly significantly more minimal than bloated commercial proprietary garbage that you may compare them with). Jerboa isn’t much unique amongst them.

It’s not even that minimal. It’s just a yet another good FOSS app. We have many many more of those around here.

EDIT: also there’s a separate Jerboa community at https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa

Now that doesn’t sound like something even a robber would consider a decent deal. I guess bro is a part of a black organ market then.

Bro definitely robbed a jewelry for that one

Looks very similar to default XeroLinux to me. Add a MacOS style panel at the bottom and it’ll be an almost perfect replica.

Yes I expected that argument. My point was there was no valid reason to remove them. The xz case didn’t convince any other projects to get rid of maintainers based on their nationality after all.

It’s obviously my own opinion that what Linus did was an nonnegotiable red flag but I’d prefer to stick with it for now. I guess making this discussion political was a pretty harmful decision so I’ll remove some of my replies in order to avoid creating more drama.

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