Comments on: I Strongly Dislike Open-Source Developers And So Should You

By: Emess

Emess — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:28:24 +0000

@Kromonos: I did not say I don’t like FOSS. I love FOSS. I’d rather use FOSS than paid software, but if PAID software is going to do what I want with a noticable advantage on teh FOSS alternative, I also do not mind buying my software. On one hand I find opensource software to have a much better community for support as well as development, but on the other hand I often find I have issues with FOSS. Granted 90% of these are my own fault for running weird implementations of programs what were never designed or intended to run together, but that doesn’t make it any less irritating.

@Thomas: I did not intend this to be a troll, and for that I apologise. Additionally I apologise for giving the impression that I hate arch and it’s developers. As far as linux goes, arch is by far my favorite distro. All the issues I have in it (besides for some compilation problems with mplayer due to some bug that is well fueled on the bugtracker regarding fakeroot) are the fault of WINE and ffmpeg essentially. I find that some apps I run in WINE work fine in debian or suse or gentoo, but the second I try them on arch they just stop. I don’t see the point of adding a bug report to arch when it’s an issue with another app that maybe 10 arch users use once a week.

Also, regarding KDEmod, it is of course their fault for not making a notice about the namechange, not that of Arch. This doesn’t make it any less frustrating however. As for the 64bit rage, I’ve had a half dozen things work fine in Arch32 but break completely in Arch64, probably because they were not designed to be run in a 64bit operating system. I could say things like “it works in 64bit ubuntu” but I don’t like ubuntu or want to use it for compatibility of one program. Mostly I am sick of things not compiling under arch when every other distro I try does it perfectly fine. I think my main source of annoyance here comes from the fact that I need a chroot just to run 32bit applications purely because Arch hates sane muli-libbing. Again I apologise if I in any way offended you, as it was unintentional, and at the time of writing I was under a lot of pressure to have a job completed, where a non-functional system was not the thing I wanted to see. This in no way excuses my rant, but I do however use it to justify myself.

By: edogawaconan

edogawaconan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:20:37 +0000

go ditch KDE >:D

By: Kromonos

Kromonos — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:04:26 +0000

If you don’t like FOSS, don’t use it!!
Install Windows and all of the out-dated closed-source crap and left the FOSS community!! ..

By: Thomas Bächler

Thomas Bächler — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:35:51 +0000

First of all, you might wanna stop blaming the Arch people for the fuckups generated by chakra/kdemod. kdemod is an extension of Arch, so _they_ need to make sure they stay compatible to Arch, not the other way around. I keep getting complaints about Arch from people who use kdemod much more than from people not using it – go figure.

About the “really random bugs” that no other distro apparently has, there is no point in ranting about them in your blog when there’s a bug tracker. It’s really impolite to spread such bad words without any reference or example, just to make us look bad – without ever having reported it to us. I consider this pure trolling, nothing more (and shame on me, I am just feeding the troll).

Last but not least: The 64 bit version is mostly identical to the 32 bit version – as for it being a load of shit: I didn’t know I could do all my daily and nightly work on a load of shit, I have to try that next time I use the bathroom.