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8 years ago The Register reported Microsoft adding de facto back doors to "Linux" in Azure

Torvalds has not been keeping on top of this game because he's in no way controlling the Linux Foundation, here's merely an employee who codes in C (which his employer demonises, just like it attacks the licence of Linux).

Microsoft Dell (or Silver Lake, the entity that has been attacking WordPress) will "drop long-running XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude brand"

When I used the first (and second) releases of Fedora (FC and FC2) there was a massive community of volunteers. They wanted GNU/Linux to succeed on the desktop (laptop too) - an objective hardly shared even by Red Hat back then. It was left for volunteers to pursue, for the most part....

The languages are sometimes being blamed for shoddy coding practices

That does not mean a pursuit of GNU/Linux on "the desktop" (mostly laptops these days) and Software Freedom is futile. It just means we need to open up our eyes and identify/classify other threats, such as social control media.

2024 ended with "proper" GNU/Linux at +0.4%, ChromeOS at +0.1% (based on statCounter/StatCounter):

Remember when Linux.com had 3-4 original articles per day?

One of the talks concerned moving from Windows (e.g. Vista 10) to GNU/Linux and it was delivered by people associated with KDE. It focused on aspects such as energy use, hence environmental impact and "footprint".

While so many of us take a break from writing this irresponsible person is running chatbots to saturate the Web with chaff, or with fake 'articles' that say "Linux" in the title

BetaNews is basically an LLM slop site

a short and incomplete list of factors which I believe contribute to the sentiment that we can - and will - win the battles over hearts and minds in the "Tech" realm

Microsoft must be very pleased with what IBM is doing

it outsources coverage of the competition to "bullshit generators" operated by Microsoft (to cover Microsoft-related topics and Microsoft's competition).

Forget about projects that reject proprietary hosting?

These people speak for "Big Money" interests, not for freedom

'secure' boot isn't about security (it's about Microsoft being in control of physical computers irrespective of what operating system they run), and for merely having the audacity to point this out - as we've done for nearly 13 years already - you'd receive constant harassment and abuse by Microsofters

There are already numerous distros based on Devuan, even well known ones such as Peppermint (it's very popular).

They also misuse the term "backdoor" and try to imply that Linux itself has back doors.

The behviour of Canonical and Red Hat reminds us that community-led distros are important and we must not let companies like Canonical and Red Hat (or oligarchs like Mark Shuttleworth) become flag bearers