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  • Well, politics isn’t about finding the one principle to rule them all. The folks/companies that find restricting access to children important, probably don’t particularly care about some Linux devices being excluded. And other folks/companies find not restricting their Linux server really important, so that’s a compromise that can be made.

    I imagine, they landed on specifically open-source being excluded as the more abstract rule, because open-source in particular has a problem here.
    Anyone can download open-source software and run it. In most cases, there is no central backend, which could handle age verification.

    And even if there is, it’s not really financially viable to offer that for anyone who downloads the software for free. Requiring payment to access the binaries or the source code would also effectively kill the open-source ecosystem, which is also not in the interest of most people.







  • That’s funny. I also use it (semi-)regularly for Krita, Inkscape, MusicBrainz Picard, LibreOffice, and well, not Prism Launcher but Luanti.

    I also have GIMP and some other games in the rotation.
    My metric is kind of that if I don’t use a piece of software as often as I update my system, then it’s not really worth including into the system updates. Of course, I also have to not mind waiting for it to be installed, when I do want to use it.













  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.worldKDE Plasma 6.7 Released
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    3 months ago

    I think, that might possibly take quite a while still. Pop!_OS currently is still in the process of rebasing on Ubuntu 26.04, from what I understand. That won’t have this update. If they stick to the Ubuntu LTS bases, then that might mean you only get it after 28.04 is release, which is in 2028.

    I read somewhere that they wanted to speed releases up again after their COSMIC Desktop is out of Alpha, so maybe you can get it earlier.

    Maybe it’s also possible for you to activate the Kubuntu-Backports repository and get the release earlier that way. I really do not know, how good of an idea it is, though, to activate that on Pop!_OS.
    Would not recommend doing that unless you find documentation or one of their devs saying that it can be done…