There are 7 regions, actually: the five you mentioned, first nations, and phsa, which is a sort of administrative oversight body for the others.

But you’re right, it is a mess. While contracting for Fraser health, I also had to report to the phsa for certain aspects of my job.

Debian and xfce, generally. I’m happy to wait for features when they arrive, and xfce works fine.

However, Debian with gnome on my surface pro 6. Xorg just doesn’t handle rotation and touchscreen things very well.

On the other hand, several apps still behave very poorly under Wayland, so it’s a bit of a catch 22 at the moment.

The issue is that they are pushing their own version of flatpaks, some of which are broken, instead of contributing to flat hub and making that the default.

Well, tbf Brodie had only just covered that Hector had left upstream.

Also, it’s hot on the heels of one of leads of the nouveau driver leaving redhat and the nouveau project altogether. Karol Herbst has pointed out friction with Linux kernel maintainers as well.

There are a number of other devs who are less… Shall we say set in their ways and are perceived as completely opposite to the free and open values they once encouraged 20 years ago. And i don’t think anyone wants to see the Linux community fragment along these lines.

Yeah, those are both good examples of interdependent supply between us and Canada, where it makes sense to keep markets geographically together.

I’m more referring to artificial blocks in terms of provincial barriers put in place for political reasons, like my alcohol example. Historically, these were restrictions for tax reasons between Ontario, Quebec and western Canada, but recent (last 20 years) spats and competition for transfer payments have essentially cut off lumber, paint, car parts, raw minerals, etc between provinces as close as sask and Manitoba.

And that is on top of intangible services gradually being restricted more and more between provinces. As a remote worker and contractor, rules have tightened for me about working in multiple provinces simultaneously.

These measures aren’t there to balance economics, they exist because provinces compete more than they cooperate.

No, there are significant regulatory barriers between provinces.

Alberta has hard limits on how much BC wine and produce can be sold in stores. Consequently, its cheaper to get Australian wine in Calgary than from the okanagan valley. Same with fruit, but from the USA.

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You’ve mentioned that you dont care about systemd several times, but it’s certainly not clear from your post.

Many companies contribute to the LF. Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, oracle, redhat, are all platinum members. Are you concerned because poettering works for ms that they’re going to privatize Linux?

What is your issue with run0?

If you don’t care about systemd, then why post?

Sysvinit is done. It is not graceful at handling dependant services, it was hard to test, and customising a service was painful compared to unit files.

For someone who’s been at Linux for 30 years, you clearly haven’t spent any time fighting with init scripts.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Poettering. His approach lacks any empathy for anyone who’s entrenched in a current system and breaks stuff with his deployment approach.

But run0 solves a LOT of problems with sudo, problems that have always existed. Have you ever tried to deploy a sudoers file in an ecosystem of Linux systems relying on LDAP? Sudo definitely needs fixing.