Hari Bari

There was a whole team of “engineers” that once told me, “using infrastructure as Code obfuscates things, using the GUI allows us to see exactly what is happening!”

They did not appreciate it when I told them to “git gud, or GTFO”.

Subsequently the company hired 5 more automation engineers like me and the two dozen of ClickOps “engineers” were let go. Our productivity is even higher with the 6 of us compared to more than two dozen of them.

GUI is nice for hobbyists and mainstream consumers.

Or throw their support behind certain distros with said emulation layers, maybe even a desktop environment like Plasma with a “Microsoft theme”.

Honestly I think it is a great idea either way.

Regardless of their commercial goals, if they put their weight into supporting the Linux ecosystem we’d undoubtedly benefit as a whole. For instance from common upstream bug fixes and increased user adoption of Linux by their remaining loyalist customers.

Since you’re posting in the self hosted community I’ll assume you’re looking for a self hosted alternative.

I’ve been meaning to try out Hickory DNS. I too want to use DoH on my clients, and will use native Android/Firefox options to enable it client side.

Haven’t settled settled on an upstream provider yet, so from Hickory DNS onwards I’ll still need to find something else.

You can’t stop the signal, Mal.

This is the way.