Why would an open source OS challenge Windows?
Perhaps a few like to, but I think it's a misconception that most OS/distros are in it to challenge Windows. This creating of a non-existent conflict is so old.
Neither am I, but seeing how much money is thrown at it over the years AI can surely pay for me.
As I read this I see Rust turning out as just a big mess as C++ with all kinds of additions and changes over the years (and multiple similar ways to do something), especially when trying to do it all at once.
It's time to begin on Rust--, which only has the minimum set of types, operators, and functionality to build everything else with without causing ambiguity (looking at you, operator overloading). Like a hardened version of C.
This is why I first went to fluxbox without taskbar/decorations (on Debian) and later bare openbox (on Devuan) because the ctrl key stuck too often after switching workspaces.
There's nothing else but the programs and the unintrusive osd clock on my screen. It's the best "desktop experience" I've had in decades of computer use.
I already realised during the Windows days that while changing colours and wallpaper is fun, it's mostly useless when 99.99% of the time the actually used programs obscure everything.
Went from Ubuntu with Gnome 2 on my first private laptop to Debian/KDE to now Devuan/openbox because all I need is the graphical part to display the programs I use. Everything else (taskbar, wallpaper, even window decorations) don't add anything to my "desktop experience" because it either takes up space or can't be seen anyway. The most fancy thing is picom making inactive windows slightly transparent to put more emphasis on the active window.
good enough is always good enough
Yeah, the only outcome to a constantly lowering average standard is a downward spiral.
Trying to achieve high quality is too much effort, so let's set aside pride in whatever's done.
I thought the slogan for USA politics was "The best goverment you can buy.".
Microsoft is a monopoly that's hard to escape
Only by the addicted. I escaped around 2000 when I installed my first FreeBSD server, surprised at it taking ten minutes instead of forty-five to install a MS 2000 server without even all the updates. On the desktop side, sure, I had to give up a few minor software habits, but I replaced them with others and I never had to look back for my daily computing fix.
In fact, going open source made everything more interesting again.
What I find distracting is the bands of darkness because digital compression does not have a smooth dark profile.
I know I have better sight than most in the dark (talking about actual real life), but I can't believe people don't notice the shadow in the dark consists of only three gray values.
In short, screw TV colour encoding cutting bits from the spectrum, use all of 0-255 of every byte.
Well, in general that's what people vote for, at the ballot box and with their wallets.
As someone with enough years behind me, I no longer have any energy left to care what people decide or don't do about keeping humanity alive. The planet will keep orbiting the sun for a long time and nature will find a way to continue.
Meawhile I'm not one for walks on sunny days. Too hot and sweaty for me.
The conventional wisdom that English prose [became] easier to read because sentences [became] shorter is wrong,
when it was once Great
So, when there were only native Americans present, the occasional Viking excluded?
When I can afford an ex-lease laptop with such a(n expected) beefy videocard to run the game. I doubt my current 1GB of VRAM will be enough.
You misspelled Glassholes. Glarseholes for British English speakers.
Someday your prints will come. -- Kodak
