Magiilaro

One of the many benefits of having open source drivers, like RADV

Ok cool, I was not aware of that page. Thank you!

Preamble: The following is only a extreme example to illustrate a core problem. It doesn’t show or represents my personal opinion.

Ok, the UDHR has the right to life, does that mean that no doctor or clinic who is pro-abortion should be allowed to use or work on FOSS Software? A lot of people would say that abortion is in hard conflict with the right to life and with that against the declaration of human rights.

Having a declaration of rights only helps with the groundwork but all the Details are a huge mess and often include lots of devils.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) into law on October 13, 2025.

It is a valid law, it only has a postponed start date of January 2027 to give everyone time to get their Systems ready.

In advance of what? The law is already enacted, and the time until it gets active is exactly there for preparation and development.

It would be in advance if he had done it when the law was still in the plan phase, but that is way done.

It is not complying in advance, it is beeing prepared for when the law becomes active and binding.

This can happen when gquotas are enabled, thats why gquotas are not recommended with snapshots

as far as I read the law, but i am neither a lawyer or even american, are those Option only needed for Systems with users and a user, as defined by the same law, is

(i) “User” means a child that is the primary user of the device.

The law says nothing about Systems that don’t have such a “user”, or at least i could not find anything.

So, there could be a valid argument that the law does differentiate.

• Providing courses for kids to learn linux? Not longer possible
• Providing older, but still perfectly fine running, Computers with Linux to low incoming or otherwise in need families? You are now a criminal!

Systems have to be ready and in place when the law becomes bindig and active, it is to late to beginn with the work then.

Because it is not only one dumb state but also multiple countries with such laws, either already active or as plans.

They will not ban it on Servers or for Corporate use, but ban it in youth Centers, in schools, in public libraries, and everywhere else where kids could have access to Computers. This will create another generation of people who only know close source Systems, most likely from Microsoft, who will have no issues with making their Systems compliant to the bindig laws.

I like to create partitions with specific max sizes, you can’t do that with btrfs subvolumes unfortunately. It is possible to set a quota but that can have a major performance impact with btrfs so it is not really a valid Option.

Thats why I shy away from using btrfs subvolumes.

KDE can be used absolutely fine with any other login manager, I personally use Ly https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly to login Info kde on wayland.

this is true, but as long as the law is active it has power to ruin lives or created huge costs when ignored or even acted against.

It is up to the courts or the legislative to declare laws unjust, until that happened even potential unjust laws are binding.

Not sure if this is helpfull:

https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-JMedienSchStVtrGBWV10StVtr-P3

§ 3 Begriffsbestimmungen

Im Sinne dieses Staatsvertrages sind

7. Anbieter eines Betriebssystems eine natürliche oder juristische Person, die Betriebssysteme bereitstellt,

A distributor of an operating system is a person or legal entity who provides operating systems.

It is extremely vague, it could be everyone from the creators of the distribution, to the person/company running the download mirror, down to the person who does the installation.

Without some court rulings to bring some guidelines and practical applications of the law there is the risk that everyone handling a non-compliant OS could be judged under the law if someone under 18 could get access to to OS or a System running it.

From the law:

§12 Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag: https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-JMedienSchStVtrGBWV10StVtr-P12

(1) Anbieter von Betriebssystemen, die von Kindern und Jugendlichen üblicherweise genutzt werden im Sinne des § 16 Abs. 1 Satz 3 Nr. 6, stellen sicher, dass ihre Betriebssysteme über eine den nachfolgenden Absätzen entsprechende Jugendschutzvorrichtung verfügen. Passt ein Dritter die vom Anbieter des Betriebssystems bereitgestellte Jugendschutzvorrichtung an, besteht die Pflicht aus Satz 1 insoweit bei diesem Dritten.

(3) In der Jugendschutzvorrichtung muss eine Altersangabe eingestellt werden können.

“normies” will not care at all

I don’t understand what you mean in this context

It is mandatory that Distributions follow the laws, because without it they can’t be used in classrooms, libraries, youth centers, or in any other places where kids or other young people can have access to them. That means that, as long as such laws exist, only close source Systems (most likely windows) can be used there if linux is not compliant. Not SystemD is the issue or the problem here, hanging them is like shooting a messanger when he brings bad news.

Also germany too