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1. Why tiling window manager users are more resistant to Wayland adoption? Rank them.
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2. Let's talk about the FOSS community
The tension between ideological purity and practical computing needs
- Whether the Linux community has become too corporate-friendly
- When does compromising on FOSS principles become acceptable?
- The 80/20 rule: Most users just want things to work vs the 20% who care deeply about freedom
- Whether gradual adoption through compromise helps or hurts the long-term FOSS mission
Deeper Questions to Explore:
The Gateway Drug Theory
- Does using some proprietary software on Linux eventually lead people toward more FOSS?
- Or does it normalize proprietary solutions and reduce motivation to seek alternatives?
Personal Stories Angle:
Ask about specific moments where he's had to choose between ideological purity and practical needs:
Has he ever used proprietary software out of necessity?
How does he handle recommendations to newcomers who need things to "just work"? After all he recently stood up against the haters of Ubuntu.
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3. What's it like being a bigtime YouTuber.
- Linux elitism and gatekeeping in comment sections
- Handling disagreements about distro recommendations or software choices
- The algorithm's demand for constant uploads vs quality content creation
- Whether to engage with trolls or ignore them
- The burden of being seen as an "authority" on Linux topics
- What's the biggest misconception people have about being a tech YouTuber?
- What tools both hardware and software?
- What would he do differently if starting over?