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alcinnz

If you ask me, the most vital projects at this point to help FLOSS succeed is to create and share art! Entertainment! This fiction doesn't have to be about software freedom, just as long as you don't sell out to DiRM-peddlers.

Undermine ideology that DRM's necessary to fund storytelling, that large capital is necessary to achieve high production quality! And, if you want, show what free software's capable of whilst ensuring it is capable of that.

Also, we need libre smartphones...

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alcinnz

There are people like (for smartphones) Pine64 doing this already, support them. Seek them out.

And if a show like, say, The Magnus Archives (my favourite horror) succeeds it'll undermine those ideologies just by existing. Though I'd always appreciate more shows! There's so many stories to tell!

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straw

@alcinnz in my opinion design is a very important part of the success of software and communities - without a pleasant experience, the software is quite hollow, janky and utalitarian. but there can be a balance between functionality and good UX/UI design that not many FOSS projects achieve

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straw

@alcinnz and games too - barely any 3D games are open source, and there's only a handful that are active and original

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ozamidas

@straw @alcinnz there is a noticeable contrast between modern gnome/libadwaita apps and older free software. People in the floss community started acknowledging the importance of user experience just a couple of years ago.

Somehow i think this has hindered the popularization of free software tools. I think powerfull tools such as or need a strong redesign.

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straw

@ozamidas @alcinnz idk GNOME isn't that good imo. I think what GIMP needs a redesign in (at least the latest versions) is the icons, they're very monotonous and undescriptive and ugly

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ozamidas

@straw @alcinnz well that is aesthetics, and plays a rol in the concept of user experience, but i was talking more about interface design rather than icons.

In that sense many floss projects should take a look at what gnome/elementary have been doing. Aesthetics aside.

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straw

@ozamidas @alcinnz GNOME/Elementary really seem like they're dumbing down their apps instead of improving them, they seem empty and featureless. it's also difficult to theme or develop Gtk apps. that is probably the one advantage that web-based applications have over native - easy to develop and therefore easy to be creative

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ozamidas

@straw @alcinnz i digress, i think adding 100 options does not make an app 100 times better, it is in how you implement those options what makes an app good. The least an user has to remember how to use an app, the better designed it is.

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straw

@ozamidas @alcinnz I do agree but there's a way to not add 100 options but still make the app feel functional, and not a limited experience

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alcinnz

@straw @ozamidas Personally I love elementary's design, feels like an extension of my arm! They've got all the features want within easy reach!

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straw

@alcinnz @ozamidas I go with minimalist software (not suckless, I use Wayland) because it gives me a ton of control so I can fine tune things the exact way I want them to look like, so far quite successful. most annoyances are limitations with labwc (the compositor I use), which will probably be resolved within the next few updates

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straw

@alcinnz @ozamidas also the whole doesn't overheat my laptop and doesn't take 3s to load on an HDD thing

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Sebastian Lasse

@alcinnz

The problem is:
You sell a server to a publishing house, cause they tell stories.
1 month later (!), the old, cool publishing house is bought by a private TV station.
This TV station is an evil DiRM-peddler.
Can't do anything now, so for me:
This fiction does have to be about software freedom. Funded by tax.

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Bob Mottram ✅

@sl007 @alcinnz Or organized in some way where sellout is less likely, such as a coop or non profit organization.

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