If it’s not in the AUR, it doesn’t have more than 10 users in the world.

Wine could probably run it

At that point, make it a thin client which boots from a network image and logs you into a terminal server.
Then you have the hardware and software resources you need for your role wherever you are.

I’m sure the police will agree when they find child abuse videos on the instance server’s HDD.

“No don’t arrest me, the child porn was DOWNVOTED!!”

Yes, and one single “user” with a script can destroy it if no one is moderating.

its all available via the modlog

The instance admin is legally responsible for everything posted on their instance.
Giving all the control to the users would literally carry the risk of going to prison.

The fact that unmoderated places attract pedophiles sharing pictures, Spambots, and trolls.
Go take a look at a random board on 8kun if you don’t believe me.
It’s largely unmoderated, you’ll love it!!!

Back in my day I didn’t code at all and I liked it that way!
(My day was today)

In an alternate universe, phones with a fold-out hardware keyboard and full Linux OS are common.
And you can just plug them into a docking station to get a full PC.

I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD

Are you using a first gen eeePC?
I think I bought one of those for 40€, 12 years ago.

Don’t do this in [email protected]
https://feddit.org/post/2221909?scrollToComments=true

You don’t even need hardware for it. Barrier is a software solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KiOMjqykbU&t=734s

Also, the quickest way to get new software versions, in most cases.

Surely, if nobody is using the software, then there’s no incentive to keep making it.

Making a tool you or the company you work for need yourself, fun, learning, community, doing good, showing off, status, being remembered, (even if it’s just in a circle of 10 people)…

Marketing generates interest. Interest gets users. Users (hopefully) get donations and/or contributions to the project.

Irrelevant for the vast majority of open source projects, which will never be financially profitable.

why not be clear and avoid wasting people’s time as they try to figure out what exactly a project is about?

Maybe because the volunteers working on the project in their free time are programmers, not marketers or good communicators?
Also, they aren’t wasting anybody’s time by creating useful software and giving it away for free.

I realize I’m being confrontational towards you, but this mindset of demanding things from people who literally give away free stuff with no strings attached rubs me the wrong way, every single time. And this mindset is much too prevalent, even to the point of harassing, insulting and threatening open source devs for choices they make in their projects.

The devs owe you nothing. If you don’t like what they do, simply don’t use it.
There are other options out there, but they may come with a $23/month price tag.

Open Source software is not a product that needs marketing.
The devs making Gimp gain literally nothing from you downloading and using it.
Stop applying capitalist logic to one of the few aspects of life that haven’t been monetized yet.

They are the opposite of “set it and forget it”.
Probably the most maintenance-heavy distros out there.
They’re like Arch, if the Arch maintainers didn’t care about keeping the system working.

It’s supposed to be Richmark Shuttleman

lol, just checked. ~/Documents doesn’t even exist on my machine.