{"id":12486,"date":"2025-06-25T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:26:25","slug":"linux-in-2025-less-software-less-features-less-tested-slower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/linux-in-2025-less-software-less-features-less-tested-slower\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux in 2025: Less Software, Less Features, Less Tested&#8230; &amp; Slower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He&#8217;s not wrong. Another interesting thing from big tech game developers was locking out Linux users supposedly because of cheating, or forcing a root kit (always active) as an anti-cheat measure. If you look at the big picture of <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/apple-removes-ability-to-run-unsigned-apps-in-macos-15-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft and Apple working at locking down their operating systems<\/a> and what software you can load, limited to their developer platform approved and signed packages&#8230; this lines up with digital ID, spyware on users with integrated AI, screen capture (<a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/microsoft-announces-technology-that-takes-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-this-is-pretty-creepy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Recall<\/a>)&#8230; all leading to a mark of the beast system and complete control of information and activity online. For the developing digital <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panopticon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Panopticon<\/a>, Linux was a problem for which they&#8217;ve been busily working to co-opt and degrade. But the problem is that it&#8217;s opensource, and alternatives will exist. And there are lean and light distributions that support older hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Linux in 2025: Less Software, Less Features, Less Tested... &amp; Slower\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYyyN2x2XRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s not wrong. Another interesting thing from big tech game developers was locking out Linux users supposedly because of cheating, or forcing a root kit (always active) as an anti-cheat measure. If you look at the big picture of Microsoft and Apple working at locking down their operating systems and what software you can load, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}