• CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Same. I started really using Linux with Ubuntu 6.06 and was drawn in by its “Linux for human beings” goals - the Ubuntu homepage of the era really pushed the ideals of community and openness. Canonical sat in the background paying to send you free CDs in the mail. It was such an idealistic thing back then.

    And then it all changed around 2010. The color scheme shifted to a shitty MacOS lookalike, the human elements were dropped, the logo was reworked, it got bundled with a paid music store, then Amazon ads in the search, and it’s been a roller coaster on a downward spiral ever since. I switched to Debian not long after the initial enshittification in the early 2010s and have not looked back, though I moved most of my systems to Arch a few years back because I like life in the fast rolling release lane and Debian wouldn’t support my new GPUs.

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      6 months ago

      Hey! Sorry for the offtopic comment but… Glad you made it to Lemmy, and from the bottom of my heart: thank you so much for OpenRGB.

      Awesome collab with KDE, Tuxedo, looking forward to the kernel implementation !

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        6 months ago

        Huh? Is the previous poster an OpenRGB developer? That’s cool!

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          6 months ago

          He’s the lead dev, his profile pic is the OpenRGB logo and his nickname is the same across social networks.