Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

[Tom H]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:16:27PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> wrote:


>>> It's been discussed over and over again. Lots of people are firm in
>>> their understanding that Lennart is an actor by and for the big
>>> business. Me too.
>>
>> Well, he is a Red Hat employee. Nobody really debates that.
>
> Maybe it's not intentional spyware malice, but rather that home users
> are being jerked around while Redhat re-writes linux as a corporate OS.

In what way are home users being jerked around? How many care about
the guts of their system?

I (unfortunately) manage four linux laptops for my parents and two
friends. They just want to boot thei machines and use them in the same
way that they use their iPhones and iPads - and they couldn't care
less about anything less.

There are of course people who want to change and customize their
setups (like you) and for whom the advent of and domination by
systemd's a PitA. Please don't generalize.


> Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one
> ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. Now the name
> varies in each machine depending on the motherboard layout; oogabooga11?
> foobar42? It may be static, but you don't know what it'll be, without
> first booting the machine. In a truly Orwellian twist, this "feature"
> is referred to as "Predictable" Network Interface Names. It only makes
> things easier for corporate machines acting as gateways/routers, with
> multiple ports. Again, the average home user is being jerked around for
> a corporate agenda.

Do "regular" home users know the name of the NIC that they're using?!