Labour. Of course they are, they’ve pretty much kicked out anyone remotely left leaning at this point.

jesus man, lay off the purity tests. Auth left is left. Center left is left.

And centre right is right, like Labour.

It’s an important software choice just like choosing a browser (though unfortunately browser choices are much more limited these days).

I usually see people discussing distros but I feel like picking the right DE makes much bigger impact.

Yes I do feel like the emphasis is often wrong; choosing a distro should be about choosing a philosophy towards included packages and updates, choosing a DE is much more relevant for day-to-day user experience/workflow.

I don’t like to ever assume negative intent without good evidence. I think I’m taking the neutral rather than optimistic view here. If you want me to speculate whether this new company is good or evil, that would just be my speculation; it would depend how they intend to make money out of it, from my gut instinct I can’t say they give me any specific Google vibes yet.

The freedom to decide what software am I allowed to run on my PC is important for me though

I’m right with you there, and it’s proprietary software that threatens that, nothing included in this announcement does though.

But how it’s implemented means everything. Google’s play integrity is corrupting because it’s designed to lock vendors in to Google’s proprietary ecosystem. You’re not getting that from this ‘language’ alone, it could be the case but it’s a massive leap at this point.

They haven’t announced anything other than a vague outline of what they’re trying to solve, it could be implemented in so many ways at this point.

That was my take, yes.

In what sense?

Because different people have different tastes?

Maybe neighborhood?

Showing my age, that reminds me of Geocities.

I feel like that’s getting there, though ‘home’ doesn’t sit right with me somehow; too many other connotations (after all it’s still somebody else’s server, unless you’re self-hosting it, you’re still using it on their terms so it’s not a ‘home’ in a typical sense).

Maybe ‘gateway’ or something like that?