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This kind of felt like it should be in DIY or something and there is also not a sub for laser cutters so it seems like this might be the best place for it. They claim there are too many distros to support, etc, etc... Then just pick ONE and support that. Its no different than Windows or Apple.

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>Angry Birds, flash mobs, Russell Brand, fidget spinners. All of these were virtually unavoidable in the previous decade, and yet, like so many popular trends, have now largely faded into obscurity. But in a recent announcement, the developers of LightBurn have brought back a relic of the past that we thought was all but buried along with Harambe — popular software not supporting Linux.

This kind of felt like it should be in DIY or something and there is also not a sub for laser cutters so it seems like this might be the best place for it. They claim there are too many distros to support, etc, etc... Then just pick ONE and support that. Its no different than Windows or Apple. Archive: https://archive.today/jjexR From the post: >>Angry Birds, flash mobs, Russell Brand, fidget spinners. All of these were virtually unavoidable in the previous decade, and yet, like so many popular trends, have now largely faded into obscurity. But in a recent announcement, the developers of LightBurn have brought back a relic of the past that we thought was all but buried along with Harambe — popular software not supporting Linux.

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Being both a software developer and laser cutting enthusiast, I can say that I don't find their situation at all surprising. Linux and the Linux community have created the problem themselves. The extreme fragmentation and innumerable distros have led to a nightmare for developers of popular packages. Too many differences in the distros, everchanging dependency projects and the generally horrible nature of the Linux communities attitude towards developers creates the perfect storm for programmers just trying to make their products work. It sucks.

Linux users often act like entitled niggers who demand more and more for free and do nothing at all to support devs who are building the software the community shits all over. They also customize the fuck out of their setups to the point of developers not being able to solve any issues because the root of the problem is that the user fucked up their OS while creating some asinine or esoteric "aesthetic" for their shitty battle station to impress other geeks in their circle. I can't blame LightBurn for wanting to get away from that shit. Windows and MacOS are bad too, but the users generally don't fuck around as much and the OS doesn't have 5000 different flavors to deal with.

Open Source was a failure. It's the jewish agenda applied to software/hardware. It promotes free tech debt but gives nothing towards tackling the problems it creates. It makes developers have to compete for free with a user base that hates them but demands their work. It promotes terrible standards and stifles innovation and ingenuity. Who cares if it's free if it's all crap? I'd rather pay White innovators to give me a mediocre product than get complete shit for free from a community that hates everything. FOSS is dead. There's no reason to try to revive it. And fuck Linus too.

I used to have the LaserCutting subs on Voat and Reddit. I see no reason to add one on Poal since no one will use it. No one used it on Voat either. Reddit sub is still alive, but none of the people I knew are there any longer including the user I transferred ownership to. I don't really do much laser stuff these days so it's just an old expensive hobby for me now.

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Yeah, I get it. I have a long and strong background in Linux and some in development. When I try to run something on a "unsupported distro" I know that is on me and if it is not working right or after a long time I can't get it to work right I just bring up an instance of the "supported configuration/distro".

If I get it working on my distro of choice I document it so others can too if they want to and I update my documentation regularly if it breaks and I can fix it. I am probably not the "average user" of any software at this point though.

Open Source is however, NOT a failure. Damn near most of the world's most important systems run on it. Now, if you talk about consumer/desktop Linux, etc then you might have a point there. Underskilled people trying to do something that was never intended with software they don't understand. Then expecting someone to magically fix the problem they created for "free". Those people.. Can Fuck off.

Then again, I do donate to the projects that I use or if they have a "paid tier" that is not out of my budget I buy it.

I agree that there is no need for a laser cutting sub, the amount of people on Poal with a actual laser cutter might be like 3. I post to the 3dPrinting sub from time to time. I am probably one of maybe 15-20 people that has one and uses it.