Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux

Re:Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doin... by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @11:59AM (#41182669)

The other reason though, is why does GNU think they are so important compared to some pretty important other system components?

Why isn't it GNU/Linux/SystemD/Mesa/Xorg? Basically every Linux desktop could be described that way.

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Re:Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doin... by unlisted7347 on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @12:52PM (#41183150)

Basically, if not GNU, Linux would have stayed a hobbyist project or maybe never even happened.

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Re:Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doin... by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @01:18PM (#41183385)

So should we call it Linux/Torvalds? Linux/Torvalds/Stallman?

Heck, if Earth didn’t exist, Linux wouldn’t have happened, so Linux/Earth/Sun/Biology/Torvalds/Stallman/SystemD/Mesa/PulseAudio/Wayland…

GNU nowadays is a tiny part of the desktop. There’s also projects slowly moving to rewrite it in Rust and a more permissive license, other parts are losing importance like GCC losing to Clang, so its relevance is dying over time. Just like the FSF.

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Re:Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doin... by apantel on Thursday August 08, 2024 @02:20PM (#41194640)

Or Linus would have found some other way to have a userspace and we’d still have Linux but with different tools.

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