theTrainMan932

I know KDE has a calendar, not sure how well it'd work for your use case but it's there!

Motivations by the company have been explained far better than I could by the other replies, but from both mine and other people's experience, some software when installed via snaps seems to perform badly compared to any other method of installation (notably chrome and firefox i think). Also snap isn't really bringing anything special to the table whereas flatpak has a more interesting containerised approach from what I'm aware.

In any case with the way ubuntu's going I'm really not over the moon with anything canonical (and i don't think I'm alone)

There's norway i could've come up with that pun, I'm impressed

From what I understand and to continue your example of Ubuntu-based distros:

As you say, Ubuntu itself is corporate-driven, so there are things in there that exist pretty much solely to benefit Canonical (e.g the telemetry they recently introduced if i recall correctly)

Most of the time when basing distros off of others, I think it's to keep a lot of features - either to save dev time or because they only want to tweak a small portion of the distro and not write a new one from scratch.

Because devs can modify the entire codebase, they can remove features that are corporate-driven (telemetry and such) and effectively create something fully (or mostly) compatible yet without such features.

Another major example imo is the removal of snaps, which most people (myself included) strongly dislike - as far as I'm aware removing them in Ubuntu itself is quite a difficult process as it's baked into the distro itself. I imagine a lot of people want something like Ubuntu as it is quite friendly and has one of the lower bars of entry for Linux, but object to corporate things like telemetry and the overall monstrosity that is snaps.

Apologies, i went down a bit of a tangent, but I hope that roughly answers your question!

Perhaps it's the case that if there are specific 'safe-use' spaces, people won't have to do such things in their own home and instead have other places to do - if people have somewhere where they can safely consume drugs and have medical help/supervision then theoretically the need to do that in private becomes unnecessary?

I see your point however as I only have a 20 minute daily commute and yet still often come across the smell of weed once or twice!

Looks great, what music player are you using?

(Partly continuing from part 1) Unless I'm greatly mistaken mozilla are a pretty big company and quite profitable themselves and they very much have the capability to install solar panels and such, and how else do you think unifying them would be beneficial? All of the major google-suite-alternative open source applications are working very well alone and some element of separation and competition seems ideal in my opinion. Interested to hear your thoughts behind this.

I see where you're coming from, but I'm not sure what you mean by having less dependency on google - firefox is the only major modern browser not to be chromium-based) and thus at least partly google-based too), and why would unifying many open source apps under one company be beneficial? Signal, mozilla, proton, libreoffice, etc. all being separate entities actually seems better for privacy and decentralisation imo! Also, firefox offers a vpn and email client (thunderbird) and ecosia seems a bit odd to put in here seeing as a core part of it is adverts (and if memory serves i think it might even use google search apis or something?) Sorry if I've come off as too critical as I quite like the idea of having one unified open-source suite, but I feel like it'd be either unnecessary or impractical in most cases.

I imagine it'll take a while for fediverse stuff to be high up on search results but it should still work and appear the same way as reddit posts do, just using the federated domains instead of all only being on one site. Hopefully people do start arriving for that reason though!

From scrolling through that it seems to me like the only change is who people trust with their data, not how private it might be. Good consideration though.

I'm brand new to the fediverse as a whole and have just come in with the reddit exodus, and signing up and using this instance has so far been great for me too. Thanks for making the transition smooth!