11-16-2025, 06:16 PM
(11-14-2025, 07:32 PM)madscijr Wrote: Lots of people still love and miss Windows 7. Microsoft should have really just added options so that if you want, you could configure your Windows to look/feel like whatever you want. Instead they have taken away options. Boo, Microsoft!!!linux keeps being advertised as offering many choices. however, a few things are being done to limit those choices. whoever wants to remain on 32-bit software will have to prepare. to remain offline and never upgrade. wayland is being brutally forced as the only option. for display protocol instead of "x11" or "xlibre". in more and more operating systems. wayland is the only option offered. this is true basically for whatever carries gnome desktop. such as ubuntu "flagship", and rhel and its orbit.
mx linux being compelled. to offer iso's with "systemd". which disgusts some people who aren't true fans and users anyway. if you love kde plasma. but hate "systemd". oh well try again.
next year this might be followed. with linux mint being forced into two things. either keep going with ubuntu base. but offer snap over "apt"/synaptic as the recommended way to install and maintain any application. or get away completely from that. and keep going with debian edition. ubuntu lts "resolute racoon" next year might not allow. the removal of "snapd" and its dependencies. unless someone really wants a broken system.
more distributions than ever. are responding to users who hate "native" package managers. so they shamelessly allow installation via appimage, flatpak or snap. whatever it takes to get a favorite program.
sadly as far as hardware support and other things. linux still has to play second fiddle. to windows and macos.