VLC for Unity integration

Another good lesson about why we should trust only FOSS ecosystems

  • SolidGrueEnglish
    25•11 months ago

    edit: The following is off topic, but I’ll.leave it as a testament to my gray-beardedness. In my defense: Unity isn’t Unity anymore. Don’t get old.

    I’ve been using Linux for 30 years now, and for a while I was an advocate for Ubuntu and Canonical (among others, I’m pan-distributive). Then things changed: GNOME 3, Wayland, Unity, something-sonething, Snaps… All too much.

    As an advocate, I’m apt not to emerge with favorites, or to yuck others’ yums. Neverthekess, Canonical is a press beyond the pale, many days.

    In the end, I don’t recommend Canonical distros. LMDE is solid, as are most of the *bian and redhat downstreams. I don’t recommend the others because I don’t know them, but more importantly I couldn’t help a friend un-bodge a bad installer on them (likewise for "BSD or Darwin).

    But really, no love for Canonical. They went to some Dark Side, and I’ll have a hard time forgiving them for it.

    • @sir_reginald
      23•11 months ago

      I also thought of Unity the DE before reading the article

      I understand the confusion. This doesn’t belong to a Linux community. I mean, I see the relation with FOSS but I’m sure there are FOSS communities out there. The article doesn’t even mentions Linux, just Windows and Android.

    • Troy
      11•11 months ago

      You do realize this is about the Unity game engine, right?

      • SolidGrueEnglish
        14•11 months ago

        I do now. See edits upthread.

    • JulianEnglish
      6•11 months ago

      This is about the unity game engine, not the unity desktop environment. Also unless I’m mistaken the unity desktop environment has very little involvement from canonical since they switched to gnome.

      • SolidGrueEnglish
        6•11 months ago

        Oh embarrassing. Fair enough, thanks for pointing it out.

        I’ll leave it, but I acknowledge it’s off topic.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•11 months ago

      This is about the Unity game engine, not the unrelated Unity desktop shell from Canonical.

    • @[email protected]
      2•11 months ago

      With ibm working hard to enshittify redhat even faster than newredhat themselves, we should consider avoiding them as a first-class porting and work target.

      Look at OpenEL as a successor to the RH and an upstream for the other ELs once RH starts eating from that tasty “free stuff they can sell” trough. Having made bank on TheForeMan without actually making an effort to support it, they have a model they can use for everything.