I agree with other sentiments of don't worry too much about the distro, but just do it. There is a lot of "it just works" all over many distros. As a daily driver though, you might have different work or other requirements that might not just work and you can distro hop as well..
I believe it's important to be part of the change you want to see (from walled gardens perspective)
I agree that nobody cares enough. When was the last time you read anything good or promising about any of these sites - bot related or otherwise? but they persist because of a snowball of your network using it and then we feel fomo.
The only way to win is not to play. even if your kid's soccer team and your church and your suburb's news (and billions of bots) are all only on fb or whatever, stop their momentum and get off the ride, but obviously that isnt happening so the snowball continues to roll with the garbage in it and nobody cares and that's just how it is now.
Honestly you might be the exact person this is built for. You've clearly already mentally checked out of the existing platforms. "The only way to win is not to play" says it all.
It's okay to be negative, we're talking about a major commitment that I really need to believe in, and I'd rather get the truth before I commit to that than to have false hope.
My linux gaming experience has left me with a wierd irony...
I have been stealing windows for the last 25 years and never ever felt like i owed M$ a cent. Now after totally switching to free stuff i suddenly feel (not in a bad way at all) a kind of debt to open source developers for just making cool stuff and putting it out there for me to use and play with and i'm not doing a crime anymore!
Not a programmer (accountant here) and thanks to Github copilot in VSCode, I was able to make the app I couldn't find. It's been a super fun hobby over the last 6 or 7 months, especially hosting it myself and my only cost now is Apple's recurring 99 USD in case i want to ship an update later, so I can keep it up for free into the future.
95% of the app is boilerplate API and DB stuff but I stood 0 chance of making this without the LLM handling syntax and the volume of code.
It's Plantshare and it helps people share and find plants, because if you do gardening, your plants are likely making more free plants all the time. which you can now share and find on this app. Saw an app for sharing tools in your neighborhood and I thought that was really cool, so I did this but for giving plants/seeds/cuttings away.
This is coming across as the "hobby police" here telling everyone what they can and can't do... I'm sure it wasn't meant that way but it reads that way.
The airplane company wont let you vibe code their systems anyway, and rightly so. the rest of us can just do whatever we like.
I read this as the cost per unit of video produced. Of course it costs a lot to build power plants but they will produce exponentially more videos, exponentially faster and it's all about scale.
Edit... And the tech companies are certainly not paying the environmental costs now are they?
Recently launched my free app for gardeners to share plants with each other, Plantshare.
Now I'm working on a few changes to the app, most notable is moving any plants marked as 'for sale' out from the main section because it turns out people are more greedy than I anticipated and it's getting in the way of sharing the free stuff, cuttings etc.
There's also some demand for a web front end so I might work on that next. (currently only android and ios)
I had an initial boom of downloads in South Africa but lately most new downloads are in USA.
I believe it's important to be part of the change you want to see (from walled gardens perspective)