Should GNU Boot become GNU Canoeboot?

Honestly, I think some people are just professionally offended by anything I say. This is to say: there is no pleasing such people :)

I don't need to please them. I know who I am, what I want and where I'm going.

Ignore these people, who thumb you down with such bs mindsets. They are nothing more than fault-finders. This is the same reason some people avoid Church.

I won't say its Church is always bad like this, but probably a good 1/3 of them are like this.

Fault-finders are crap.

Well, Trisquel is pretty good as FSDG distros go; it's one of the easier to use distros and mostly Just Works (if your hardware doesn't need firmware blobs - which is the main problem with FSDG distros on modern hardware, and that's just a fact, no matter how you feel about it one way or the other).

Thing is, if you actually look at the downvotes on posts I make, it has to get to -5 to be hidden, but then it stays hidden even if people start upvoting it. I thinnk it's -5 anyway. Then I look at a lot of those posts and it says -2 or -1 later on, which means I probably have about 30-50% of the people on this forum on my side.

Yes, your point is well taken. I want to be absolutely clear: although I may (perhaps foolishly) also engage with the naysayers, my purpose in coming here is simple:

My project, Canoeboot, provides a viable free coreboot distro that many Trisquel users will benefit from, and it is precisely this community (the FSF community) that will want to hear about it.

That is why I keep coming here to talk about releases, the work being done - because once you get past the naysayers, you get to the users, and those are the people that matter to me. My work is also available to the naysayers, and I'll gladly provide support for them on IRC.

Obviously, I know that I have a certain history with the FSF/GNU, especially given my competition with GNU Boot. The cult of personality (and let's face it, that's what it is) is strong, so a number of people will dislike whatever I say or do, even if it's good - because they support the symbol in addition to the actual movement in general. The symbol of GNU; and I'm not currently a part of that symbol (unless the GAC accepts GNU Canoeboot!)

Thing is, I'm used to having haters. That's the nature of politics; this isn't just technical work being done, but it is also politics. Some people will always hate me, and that's OK; all I care about is the work. I'm also accustomed to this in real life; I'm a conservative, and also trans, whereas most internet trans people are leftwing so I get a lot of hate in some circles (I consider myself a libertarian) - in fact yesterday I went out canvassing (UK general election 2024) for the first time with some party colleagues and we got quite a few doors slammed on us :)

(we also got some supporters)

Haters are a part of life. The haters are gonna hate no matter what, so I do what I want to do anyway and I assert myself, both technically and politically, doing releases and making my arguments. This is required, in all parts of life; you have to do what you want to do, even if it's unpopular, otherwise you're wasting time pandering. You have to have the guts to say what's what, even if you'll get shit for it; you'll be better off in the long run and you can look back later at all your achievements and be proud of what you did and why you did it.

It's easy to say yes to everyone, and try to be nice; saying no is harder, sometimes, but it has to be done. If all you do in life is worry what others will think of you, you'll get absolutely nowhere and get fuck all done. Of course, sometimes you will also be popular, your beliefs and actions gaining popular support.

The naysayers don't start supporting you when you win, either. The further I go in my quest (to make Canoeboot and Libreboot the best they can possibly be), the further ahead I get, the more they hate me; that person earlier who complain about how often I post to Mastodon, was basically saying I shouldn't post at all. Why on earth should I listen to that person??

Actually, it has been my experience in life that when you try to pander to the naysayers, and be "respectable" (to their eyes), they still don't respect you, but what happens then is they start to walk all over you; they move the goalpost and start demanding more concessions from you - and then you start losing your actual friends, which is their goal. This was a mistake that I actually made, a few years ago, and I learned the hard way to just say no. The same people still hate me but I'm much happier and my projects are all thriving because of it - and I have more supporters than I did before, more friends.

No is a very healthy and necessary word to say to such people. They say it to me, in so many words, so I'll say it back.

You say it like this:

No.

And that is all you say. Don't even provide context or rationale. Just say no :)

That's just my 2 cents anyway.

I'll say it again:

No.