Sheesh, FOSS licenses really are the only force in the universe that can stop this nonsense.
I remember shelling out for Substance indie licenses thinking it would be a good investment. Shortly after they’re:
- part of the “adobe family” (yaaay! /s)
- Not gonna make it subscription only, c’mon guys. It’s ok.
- No seriously, we hear you, you’ll have options! Definitely!
- Newsletter: Ok we’re subscription only, “Get your keys for the super out of date version because we’re just deleting it from human history now.”
- SaaS cloud only and you’re gonna like it, peasant.
Never trusting private software like that ever again.
This is exactly why I always tell myself it’ll be super fun and easy to replace a Linux distro on one of my machines, and I do the fun part of balancing release style, desktop environment, all the shiny stuff…know what stops me dead in my tracks upon install?
Deciding a file system. Because it feels like such a weighty decision with far-reaching effects.
According to internet research, they’re all the right one, they’re all the wrong one, they’re all just fine, and don’t use any of them because they’ll wipe all your data. Lol
Your documentation on file system choice is either anecdotal or engineering-masters-thesis, seemingly no in-between.
I’ve just decided BTRFS with snapshots is great, and keep good enough backups that I shouldn’t have to fiddle with the fanciest deep-knowledge features to save my system.
Might be my ADHD as well. XD