Isn't this guy a right-wing nut/borderline fascist?
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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Yes, but don't mention it to the people that only care about their eye candy because they get very mad when you do that.
Edit: as predicted, the chuds are assmad.
And OP gets very mad when you call out this premium dotfile subscription bs, and proceeds to delete threads.
What's there to call out about it?
You don't see anything wrong with putting tools to make it more accessible for new users and nontechnical people behind a subscription?
There's no tools for more accessibility. Those are custom shell scripts that anyone can make and are also available to download for free. Are you actually braindead or you think selling software is just wrong? It's just a quickshell config lmao. Gnome, kde a lot of foss originations take donations. This is just that with custom rice made by some of the active community members. You can download them for free on their githubs.
No wonder Linux has such little support from companies. It's filled with braindead people like you.
Thanks for confirming.
Is this an ad? I think this is an ad. It sure looks like an ad.
... Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded? Why doesn't someone just fork it and set the defaults to match the dotfile? And if it isn't better, how arrogant do you have to be to think your theme and setup is worth a monthly sub?
Edit: Looking at the actual page, it seems that buying the sub doesn't give you the same benefits as donating €5 or vice versa. For some reason.
Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded?
It seems they're not changing the default configs, but instead adding an additional config that's actually usable straight from the box. example video
Cool! Hope it works out.
yeah, development gotta happen somehow
It's an interesting topic me and my friends have discussed for a long time. On one hand, putting ease of use and user experience behind a paywall is terrible but on the other developers deserve compensation. Not everyone can donate and others doesn't even figure that it's an option.
Pangolin I think does it very kindly by having a button on the lower left of the interface that you can click on and then also dismiss to hide that button for a week which I find a good common ground. But at the same time I also think it's hard to justify hate towards projects that lock things behind a paywall.
Of course if you lock security features like OIDC/LDAP like some do or self-hosting to "Local Infrastructure" it's pure BS. I think there's a lot of nuance to what should and shouldn't be done in the matter but as long as it's still open source it's good in my book. Like self hosting Bitwarden gives you access to the paid features or you can pay them the small fee to not self host it and get some extra QoL features.
People do in the end have to juggle software maintenance, community maintenance, organizing issues, planning features and implementations, keeping wiki and docs up to date, etc. On top of, I'm assuming in most cases, having to do a regular job too. I know for a fact I wouldn't be able to do that at all so if they can get some motivation through either code contribution or monetarily it would potentially ease up things.
To people who downvote: Life isn't free.
How much did you donate to open source projects you use so far? you know life isn't free
I actually donate a few dollars to grapheneos and sunaurus (previous admin of lemm.ee) now that lemm.ee is dead I guess I can stop donating now.