I’m interested in finding out what people think when they see something GNU. What do you associate with it? Do you tend to be more or less interested in the project if.it is GNU or not? What is your perspective?
I’m interested in finding out what people think when they see something GNU. What do you associate with it? Do you tend to be more or less interested in the project if.it is GNU or not? What is your perspective?
I generally think of GNU as being foundational (or, old) and principled.
I really appreciate the contributions they’ve made to both core utilities and especially philosophy.
But I don’t see them as lighting up the world or adding anything new lately. I think of vaporware like Hurd with 1000 year dev cycles. I think of them recommending Linux distributions like Trisquel that let perfect be the enemy of pretty good.
i’ve used trisquel on my primary machine at some point in the past, it was hassle free and pretty much just ubuntu
Oh, that’s good to hear! Always had the impression that the blob-free distros caused compatibility headaches, but glad to be wrong I suppose.
Edit: And I should say I didn’t mean to pick on Trisquel in particular, it was just the one GNU recommended distro I remembered by name.