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9 days agoI was team Gnome before Gnome 3 came out. Nowadays I don’t mind it for auxiliary computers that I don’t interact with regularly. It has a huge community behind it and that is a quality in its own right. But since MATE never really managed to become a worthy successor to Gnome 2 I guess I’m team Plasma now. I got it “forced” on me by my beloved Steam Deck and I can definitely see why Valve went for it.
Currently I’m experimenting with Hyprland but that is definitely too early to call it my forever pick, so Plasma it is.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I’m not exactly a visual artist who stands to lose something in this armsrace, but that’s how I tend to look at it. As a software engineer I’m fascinated by the possibilities. There were people who despised the camera when it came to be. I firmly believe that once the AI hype dies down “real” human-made art will not have suffered any setback. At the end of the day this is still people building tools to imitate something worth imitating. Nothing is ever fully original.
If someone can’t see the value in art that took actual human effort to make then that is on them. If a tool is built upon millions of existing pieces of human artistic effort to make it available to the general public I’d see this as less deplorable than copying a CD to a cassette tape in the 80s. If someone tried to make money by selling what is essentially other people’s work then that is obviously a different story, no matter what is being misappropriated.