Thread 107149340

Tim gives you $1 billion to make linux "just work."
What do?

>>107149340 (OP)
>take the $1B
>hand him an Ubuntu install USB

Expand flatpak, and put a lock on the CLI so zoomers babied by the bowling bumpers can stop crying.

>>107149357
>... from 2005

>>107149340 (OP)
Make everything a static binary.

>>107149362
I guess I'd also probably have to lock down certain directories because apparently zoomers will just go and delete those to be all "Linux doesn't work!"

>>107149385
Oh yeah and I could also monetize all this work by adding telemetry to gather user data. Not like they'll notice anyways.

>>107149340 (OP)
Remove excess freedom.
Polish what's left until it works.

>>107149340 (OP)
Open source MacOS
Tell the community to get cooking.
Keep the $1B

increase rewards for bug bounties by an order of magnitude.

>>107149340 (OP)
Buy out RedHat from Indian Business Masala.
Pony up enough "charity money" to SPI to get a couple seats on the board of it. Maybe some individual contributions to specific people at Debian as well.
Buy out Canonical.
Buy out SuSE from whatever rotting corpse of Novell owns them now, for good measure.
Kill Wayland, outright. The next release, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, all have to pick one version of systemd and udev. The maintainers can pick any one they want but there's only one.
Now, they have to pick one version of libc6.
One version of Xorg.
One version of KDE.
One version of GNOME.
One major version of firefox and chrome.
Tell the maintainers to get regression testing, update their mirrors, and the ship date is in 60 days so get fucking busy.
Same group meets again in 18 months for the next release. It's just like "steam runtime", Linux is fine but there needs to be one set of libraries to test against for ISVs. RHEL changes too frequently, Debian's DFSG and bureaucratic process makes them too old, so they eat huge changes on upgrades like a bitch. Ubuntu and SuSE shouldn't even exist because they're just spins of Debian and RHEL anyway.
Gentoo and Arch and Slackware don't get roped into this deliberately. They're too different to begin with and are basically FreeBSD tier as far as ISVs matter.

>>107149340 (OP)
Simple. Get rid of the useless tranny infested community with zero organization and direction and replace it all with profit motive.

>>107149571
kek

>>107149340 (OP)
why would I do that when I could spend a billion dollars to make macOS “just work” again

>>107149737
Replace Rust with Swift.

>>107149340 (OP)
I would spend every day here posting the same 3 pictures for 10 years, street shitting spammer

>>107149340 (OP)
>spamming the board for a decade
embarrassing, rajeesh.

NUKE INDIA

>>107149340 (OP)
Pocket the money and continue using gentoo. Works on my machine.

Create real installers for programs. Remove package manager. All the sensible automatic shit you see on windows, including letter drives.
Also sandbox for executables where you start a workspace and drop the folders and programs usable as that workspace is in progress.

>>107149340 (OP)
>>107149571
Let me tell you, folks, Tim Apple..great guy, great guy, but now he’s gone. God rest his soul. But let’s be honest, making Linux free and usable for everyone? That’s not the right approach. You know, a lot of people are saying it’s communism, and I have to agree!

Now, Windows, folks. Windows is the best, the absolute best. You get what you pay for: quality! You’re not going to get that with Linux. And Richard Stallman? Strange guy, very strange. Loves his birds, whatever that means. Trust me, you want quality in your computing experience, and that’s what you get with Windows!

>>107149631
>Ranjeet enforces a broken Indian desktop UI
>Vladislav adds a patch that leaks peoples IPs
>Chang adds kernel backdoor for the CCP.
Sounds good, thanks!

Maybe you fags should explain what about linux needs fixing? There are 2 things that actually do not work: Adobe products and kernel gaymer anticheats. So if you're not photoshopping or playing league of legends it literally just works. Even Microsoft office suite has compatibility via libreoffice now

Compile every package into a static binary. That's it. YOLD

>>107150420
based

>>107149340 (OP)
Base the project on Qubes OS.

>>107149340 (OP)
>What do?
spend the money on a nice home and investments, since linux already works and he is a retard for handing me that money
also OP is a faggot and probably a macfag too, that's double the faggotry

>>107149340 (OP)
Make an ad campaign that makes Linux extremely unattractive to Crapple users, WinBlows lifers and intellectually lazy people alike.

>>107149340 (OP)
>$1M to assassinate every DE developer that isn't working on KDE
>$500M to solve all the backlog of bugs in KDE and Mozilla
>$499M to code auditors to make sure packages don't break system wide configs for the rest of the OS
Do this and the user will have a pleasant UI and never to touch a terminal again

>>107149340 (OP)
make it run windows programs natively
change the filesystem to look like windows
add default ui that looks like windows

I'd probably bomb Tel Aviv

>>107149340 (OP)
For $1 billion I'd just buy the Windows 7 source code from MS and release it as open source project. In 10 years it would replace linux.

>>107149340 (OP)
I'd ask him for another $1 billion

>>107149340 (OP)
>macos
>just works
you have not used silverblue. since switching to silverblue my macbook feels like an outdated antiquity. what the fuck is an update is this 1912

>>107149340 (OP)
Kill the audio stack with fire, replace with WASAPI.
Kill LUKS, replace with Bitlocker.
Make it work with NTFS properly, software should ignore file permissions.
Implement system-wide UAC.
Kill Wayland, make Xorg work.
Kill all other DEs, make KDE trannies implement basic DE features like a device manager, IR camera login, fingerprint login, touchpad gestures, dynamic refresh rate, etc.
Kill nano & vi, replace with msedit.
All essential software should have GUI.
Make the terminal/shell support basic text editing shortcuts like Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+V to paste, Ctrl+Z to undo, mouse text selection by default.
Replace garbage like dd, lsblk, /dev/sda, dmesg with meaningful names an average human being can read, understand, remember, i.e. Get-PhysicalDisk.
Have a single officially supported way to install software with a single official repository (like winget). The package manager shouldn't uninstall the DE when a user installs Steam. There should be no dependency conflicts by design.
Make it run Windows software properly.

The biggest problem with linux is that you have to install it. To most people installing an OS is unthinkable, even if they despise their current OS they'll put up with it because it's as much a part of the computer as the CPU. In order words I'd use the billion to nuke microsoft HQ.

>>107149340 (OP)
I would go over budget anon.
And I don't think Linux would survive it.
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Merge major distros.
2 model release LTS and Semi-Rolling.
LTS keeps the hardware support pace, don't release LTS ever 2 years.
With a slower userspace pace which takes compatibility+security into consideration.

Create a single packaging format.
Must be easy to package and modify.
Keep the "package manager is an integrated development environment feel" -devel/-dev packages for easy development.

.AppImage should be integrated with the new package manager and come with a list of required run-time dependencies.

Flatpaks runtimes are now based on the new distro model.
Add ability to filter by application HDI style on Flathub(KDE, GNOME, Independent).
Get developers on board and get rid of the community packaged apps.
Extend the security consorption.
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Fix "one request at a time" bs in PackageKit.
Kill either Wayland or X and fully commit to fixing one or the other.
Wayland promotes fragmentation in the display layer and we need to have a single implementation emerge.
Wayland requires additional work in terms of privately allowing global shortcuts, displaying keystrokes, allow custom resolutions, allow VRR;
X11 is insecure, slow, but supports legacy systems.

Fix PolicyKit, make the prompt secure. Let the user shutdown the one who launched the app which asks for permissions.

Unify the security model in someway.
Get rid of AppArmor, make SELinux easier to use/learn and setup for app developers, administrators, users.
Make it easier to setup sandboxes, network restrict apps.
There should be a kind of unified API for security, there's the SELinux, there's seccomp etc.
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Sandboxing non-flatpak apps should be as easy as flipping a single switch on the .desktop file, DEs come with an option to quickly configure which apps launch in a sandbox.
This should come with providing app specific configuration and sane presets.

Look folks let me tell you something.
Tim gives me 1 billion, ok? Big money. Tremendous money, the best money. And he tells me : <<Donald, make Linux work.>> And I’m thinking, I know how to get things done, I’ve built many fortune 500 companies, I've built my city, I've build this country, I've built an empire, folks. So Linux I can take care of that.
We're gonna bring in the best, the smartest developers, ok? The best from all over the world with my fresh super-skilled H1B visa, folks. They’re gonna have all the tools they need, all the resources, and we’re goina streamline it. It's gonna be incredible, you won't believe it.
We're gonna take this beautiful billion, we’re gonna put it to good use, and in no time Linux will be everywhere and will be the best thing America has ever produced. Big, big success. People are gonna love it. Believe me.

>>107149340 (OP)
give every indian 75 cents to fuck off

>>107149340 (OP)
make a gtk alternative that can be statically linked
that's it. that's literally it

>>107149340 (OP)
>What do?
delete every distro there is but 1, this would fix everything.

1 BILLION TO PROTON

>>107149340 (OP)
1. Come up with some sort of permissions layer that provides an android-like experience, where you can grant fine-grained, but user-centric permissions (internet, non-volatile storage, camera, sound, gpu, etc), probably using flatpack and maybe podman in some way. It'd have some sort of escape hatch where you can get a shell or desktop in a totally unrestricted environment so things work now, but by default, "apps" would be heavily restricted.
2. Pay some people to come up with a "just works" GUI. Maybe that might involve forking or paying one of the smaller ones, but Gnome and KDE don't have a chance. Gnome is run by pedants and pedos who would get in the way of their "perfect vision", and KDE is complicated and will just crash and be a nightmare to polish into what most users want. This would include a series of simple, well-tested GUIs for basic system operation.
3. Anti-trust case against microsoft who are either bribing or holding bulk license prices hostage, or just outright threatening to not do business with them, to prevent OEM's from selling pre-installs of linux.

>>107149340 (OP)
install mint

>buy linux foundation
>kick linus out and replace him with ebussy as the kernel maintainer

remove wayland
remove xorg

who the FUCK is tim?

>>107149340 (OP)
faggot CEO with zero talent or technical experience fishing on /g/ for ideas by starting a 'how would you improve Linux' thread

the only reason he got the job was because he sucked Steve Jobs dick and let him fuck him in the ass. Apple has done nothing new since Steve Jobs died and are just coasting on all the innovation Steve Jobs did

I hope Tim dies of AIDS like his faggot benefactor Steve Jobs

>>107149340 (OP)
Basically fedora silverblue but also pay adobe to start maintaining adobe suite for linux because linux hating fags can only think of that not working as the reason they "can't switch away from windows"

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Hire an assassin to kill the guy behind systemd
Hit gnome foundation with an Iranian drone

Hire 100 tinkertroons to develop a hyper-riced hyperland installer for alpine linux and have a full-time tinkertroon write readable and non-shit documentation for their wiki

develop s6 to replace the other init systems that some furry guy was working on a while back (for alpine linux)

Round up any gnome survivors and force them to stop shitting up FOSS and make them work with QT guys to develop a unified theming framework that just works so we can stop getting headaches over linux theming

>>107155224
>usecase for USB drivers?
>kernel 7.0 is now free of unusual usecases

As other have already said: better and more configurable security + a robust packaging solution. That's all it really takes.

>>107156529
>>107152479
>Create a single packaging format.

Flatpaks work. Nigbuntu are pushing snaps that nobody wants and that's the hill they will die on. App-image is OK but more targeted at Winbabies because it's "just like an exe bro".

>>107149340 (OP)
Make a Loonix alternative to AD + AAD that will actually work i.e. troons and autists will not touch it. That's it.
>inb4 muh OpenLDAP/FreeIPA/whatever troon hobbyist shit with 5% of AD functionality

>>107149340 (OP)
FOSS AI
An army of vibe coders would sweep away all the gatekeeping old devs for good and get shit done

>>107149340 (OP)
Make super bowl commercoals fir ooen soirce software.
>Linux mint but with Jerk it out like the iPod commercial, showing how easy it is to customize the desktop
>blender commercial with numa numa and it ends with a narrator smackalking auodesk by simply saying "May who?"
The "I'm a mac, and I'm a pc" ad except its kdenlive and krita and the rest vs adobe shit, and adobe is depicted by a man with down syndrome because it's slow. Go on fox news and tell the boomers that "microsoft is spying on you and selling your data to the Chinese"
Supwr bowl ads no longer than a tiktok. That's all it takes. Get more shekf space at bestbiy for system76 laptops preinstalled with popos cosmic. Get sudent discounts on that shit for college stuents, then it will trickle down to middke and high schools and usuro the chromebooks as more powerful but still les bloated than windows. Donate more rapsberry pis and shit to the starvong kods in africa so they can learn tk wrote ith libre office and microsoft copilot. Take the dumbphone frutiger aero movement and fucking hijack that shit with a good SMMA

>>107149340 (OP)
Build the bazaar to be more like a cathedral.

>>107156544
>Flatpaks work.
Give me .flatpak file to install as I would with an apk. +fatpak is way too bloated. It's practically a second OS on top of whatever distro installs it. As you yourself have boted, the other options aren't much better, ergo we need some .apk like system that is portable, lightweight, and backwards/forwards compatible.