Oh have some patience my friend

Let me add to context:

This developer hates the FOSS spirit & tells users to fuck off when they complain. There, done.

Supporting something just means using something now.

People buy something they want, use it, enjoy it and then think that is support. It is ridiculous.

People knighting themselfs for being leech-consumers.

It should end at the dev putting out some sort of communication stating they're not responsible for packaging, and to reach out to the package maintainers with issues installing from a package and not from the officially documented/supported installation procedure. That isn't out of the norm at all for the open source community, and is one of the main reasons for releasing source code - to enable other people to build it and try to get it to work in whatever environment they want to.

That shouldn't require a change to a much more restrictive license, and it certainly shouldn't require implementing changes to your code that force it to fail on specific OSes (like what was recently added for Arch).

I used to have this view but I've come around: change can be painful but it's also necessary. It's like a wildfire: it's destructive but it allows for new growth and it's a sign of a healthy, sustainable ecosystem. Suppressing change isn't healthy.

Do I think that every change from Gnome is a winner? Nope but I do think they're doing their best to move in the right direction, as they see it. And for that, I'll keep using Gnome and I wish them good luck.

And that's the real fail. AUR users need to understand how things work, AUR packages are community maintained and supported. If the build fails, complain to the AUR maintainer, and they will raise the necessary bug reports to the upstream project if the bug is w/ the project instead of the build instructions.

On old Twitter, community notes was simply a function of raising a flag for tweets that got ratio'd. This would open those tweets up for Community Notes users to submit a fact check. Then, the fact check with the highest upvotes gets displayed as the default one.

Now? Not sure. Elon is a sneaky fucker. But I do think it could be implemented as a simple comment queue that admins and moderators could set user roles to help with.

He is a dev and doesn’t know that?

I think it's reasonable that he doesn't. He doesn't use Arch (or any Linux flavor), so isn't aware of how packaging for Arch works. I'm guessing someone submitted the PKGBUILD and he just accepted it, and now people come to him for support instead of the person who submitted it.

I 100% agree w/ removing the PKGBUILD, but he doesn't need to go out of his way to remove Linux support. Just state that the project doesn't officially support Linux, but is open to Linux-specific bug fixes. Then if anyone complains about a distro-specific issue, close the issue and move on. If someone opens what seems to be a legitimate bug w/ Linux, leave it open and move on.

That's really all the community should expect here.

Getting ratioed isn’t an reliable indicator though (see this post).

I guess there could be a “misleading” button that triggers a Community Notes section, but complicating the UI like that could push away many participants…

Maybe there should be a button to “mark” a comment as a correction during the posts, and if it gets enough upvotes it becomes visible under the title? That could work. Some useful comments might not get properly marked, but I think many would.

One issue is Lemmy comments are typically too long to fit under a title, so the “correction” comment would need its own structure: a short correction that fits under a post title, and context that lives in the comment section.

It's probably not, unless all contributors agreed to the license change.

Agreed. I use GNOME on one system and KDE on another, and I think it's good to have a group that's very opinionated since consistent systems are much easier to support and more intuitive for new users. I don't think GNOME itself is ideal, but I do think the ideas they're pushing are worth discussing.

That said, there's a reason I'm not all-in on GNOME.

Which was due to HIS actions

Eh, I use Linux and am annoyed at issues from users on other systems. I don't know Windows dev very well, so fixing issues on Windows is a pain for me. Likewise for macOS.

So I get it.

That said, the proper way to handle this is to make it explicit what platforms are supported and which are not, accept fixes for unsupported platforms that don't break supported platforms, close issues related to packaging and whatnot on other platforms, and leave open and ignore issues for unsupported platforms. Let the community support what they want, and focus on what you want.

Exactly. I really don't understand this whole mentality.

If I supported this project, I'd either be donating money, code, or tech support time. Using something isn't "supporting" it, it's just using it.

All users are insufferable, Linux has got nothing to do with it

As a linux user myself (arch) I wish the community would just pick a package manager and stick with it.

Microsoft waiting in the wings to buy that package manager as soon as the community decides.

Same dev. Different alias.

Don't conflate my passtime wiþ some manifesto of demands.

Your bio literally ends with:

Join ðe resistance.

You mean "self-entitled". "Entitled" means that you actually are owed something. It's like the difference between righteous and self-righteous.