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Just this morning I thought to myself, what software does the FSF have as a flagship and its basically GIMP. GIMP which when asked about an Android version a year or so ago, said they couldn't do and they've made no movement in being able to do it. It's sad that their relevancy in tomorrow's world will be limited.
Huh? How did you narrow it down to just GIMP? Are you excluding all non-GUI software or something? GUI has never been a big focus for GNU (which I assume is what you're referring to when you say FSF), though they do have a couple of projects like GIMP and GNUCash. Most notably as far as GUI is concerned, they instigated the GNOME project, though they later split off. But yeah, they still maintain extremely important tools, especially for developers and UNIX systems, such as glibc, coreutils, gcc, emacs, gdb, make, bash, grub, octave, guix, etc.
Isn't Grub moot now? You're right in that I'm being unfair with my GUI based mindset.
there are many non-systemd distros
What do you mean with flagship software of the FSF? Why not krita, ardour, kdenlive, darktables, wine,...?
Because none of the projects you mentioned are GNU projects.
Mhm in that case: Emacs, grub, tar, screen. And damn, did you know about GNUHealth? Thats pretty dope.
I didn't, and I was looking for something similar, thanks!
Forget screen, all my homies use tmux
Mobile will never replace desktop. I would never do graphic art on a mobile device
not everyone agrees, but that's ok
They can both exist