Oh dear. I just read this…
A distro without colour management and that super limited tablet support screams to all artists, graphists and designers that they are no longer welcome in this community.
It is so sad and infuriating to feel rejected by the Fedora KDE community in this way. I thought that I had finally found a good distro and I was happy to be able to advocate for it…
But decisions like this clearly show that we’re not important and that it’s OK to sabotage our tools and workflows. We are litteraly pushed to the exit door.
That’s why from now on I don’t want to read any more about a dev of this community crying about why there aren’t more artists, graphists or designers in the free/libre and open source movement, when it is clearly designed that way. I’ll also have to communicate why this distro is a terrible choice and put a header ‘warning’ on all my previous guides and publications on the topic.
I don’t buy the myth of “release unfinished and let the community fix it”. It’s been 14 years I see this toxic pattern and every time it just drives users away. Getting monitor calibrated and profiled is a basic necessity for me, something I could do on any distro in 2009. It hurts to see such regression.
Well, I’m done. I’ll move all the tools for my community project Pepper&Carrot to another distro. I’m in shock because it’s an unexpectedly large amount of study and work todo suddently falling on my plate, and it will have a big impact on my productivity… and thus on my delay to deliver, and thus on my income in an already difficult time.