because a fucking depressing amount of computers are still running old windows versions for compatibility reasons, and it would be really nice if we could eventually replace it with something that isn’t a leaking sieve in terms of security.
counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbw-veYYd5M
are you serious?
i care less about how popular it is, than i care about how good it is.
Blessedly it won’t even take 10 years for linux to become hilariously better than other operating systems, i’d wager more like 5 years.
eat an extremely large plate of spaghetti
for small devices half the appeal is that you don’t need a big fucking rectangle taking up space on the device.
Personally i think a GOOD trackpoint (one that isn’t miserably stiff, and is well-calibrated) plus a touchscreen is perfection for something like a laptop. The trackpoint lets you do most things without taking your hands off the keyboard, and the touchscreen is a touchpad but… Borderline objectively superior in every way.
Like… There’s a reason phones have touchscreens, the idea of using a phone with a touchpad is insane.
i don’t think it’s out there to say that flatpaks can be a bit fucky wucky, but yeah it’s not some massive issue, they just need to make packaging harder to fuck up
astounds me that people still don’t make that priority #1
only reason i turn my computer off is power draw and noise
Sproingle is an open source alternative to mipple
it’s literally on poob
watch out for PFOSS in your water supply
people want realtime chats, which i do understand
found this list yesterday and it killed like… 20% of my interest in computers
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#tainted-software
The funny thing is that this is the ONE usecase where LLMs can’t themselves make anything worse, because if used sensibly it’s basically just a black box that pokes at your software until something breaks, the whole point is to break things!
But of course AI-users can’t even fucking handle that, they’re so utterly incapable of doing any work themselves that “look at the thing and write down things that go wrong and why it went wrong, and check if it has already been reported before submitting your own report” is too much for them to handle.
It is, because these days it’s incredibly easy to find information about you unless you fundamentally change all your habits related to technology.
there’s no requirement at all to check edits, but some people like to do so.
I think really the only thing you should avoid is editing large areas in one go, and make sure you include a useful summary of the changes.
I don’t think tux is going anywhere, because there really isn’t a need for a user-facing logo for the kernel.
What users will see are logos for the specific distro, and those have been pretty good for like 2 decades now.
overweight for a human, incredibly sexy for a penguin.
“oh my god i think he could incubate TWO eggs at once!”
how ungodly massive are your repos that you’d be “wasting” a noticable amount of space?
this is like complaining about tractors being outdated and clunky, buddy you’re not the target audience