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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:30:51 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> >> In any piece of Free software, such a limitation would sooner or
> >> later be seen as a bug, and a patch would be available to fix it.  
> > 
> > Ristretto is ~18 years old by now, and there's still no option to
> > disable its Windows Picture & Fax Viewer-esque "index the whole
> > directory on launch" behavior. There are multiple threads on r/xfce
> > about the performance penalties this imposes when viewing images
> > from large-ish directories.  
> 
> Obviously nobody cares. At least, nobody with any ability to offer a
> fix.

So your argument is that all problematic Free Software limitations get
fixed, except for the ones that don't get fixed, which are, ipso facto,
not problematic, even when they cause well-documented and oft-discussed
problems?

Sure. Very sound.