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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

At the end of March of this year a Microsoft employee made a ton of noise about Xz when the real security blunder was an imminent (days away) report about Microsoft as a whole suffering a breach, impacting the US government and resulting in espionage (the US government then published a scathing report about why it was Microsoft's fault).

The promise or the commitment (IBM and OSI said they would continue OpenSource.com at OpenSource.net) hasn't lasted even a year (or just a little over a year).

It has often been said, and moreover articulated accurately, that software projects that refuse to collaborate (actively hostile towards outside contributions or contributions from the outside) are to be avoided

LLMs not only ruin the Web. They ruin the planet.