Using Windows I can tolerate most of their shit. But their Administor stuff and security model in general…

Agreed. If flatpak can continue to gain more control around GUI and hardware, I would finally be able to hop on the wagon completely.

Kinoite shows the future of noob Linux I think, but it’s still new and has some rough edges. I installed it on an ARM and couldn’t make it wake up from sleep.

I prefer Fedora. I think Fedora lost the war on easy Linux branding to Ubuntu 15 years ago.

Ah, very good point! If we all had the dedication for UX like you do, Linux would be so so so perfect.

“Verified” doesn’t mean too much to privacy advocates. There have been incidents. I indeed want to check what my app is going to access before installing it.

As a professor I have to say… the site admin skipped the class that taught them to include always the color bar.

The question now is, when will they remove it?

Why are so many Linux posts about “Why Linux” these days? We already use Linux. Isn’t there news on Linux anymore or what?

My experience is that nix package configs are tested on NixOS. I used it on other OSes, and I easily encountered misconfigurations and such. The problem is that they are understaffed.

I ended up combining a few package managers due to this, but I’d have preferred to use another manager solely.

My point is, sacrifices can be made. Even professionals can do it.

You mean like, they risk losing their job, reducing their profits significantly during the training period, and then likely there are a few algorithms that don’t exist in Krita, and most are slower with less optimization. If Adobe releases a new killer feature those professionals who transitioned to OSS are fucked, and also they sacrifice a significant of time on additional training for using Linux, replacing their professional NVIDIA GPUs, tweaks wayland, then they spend time on fixing boot problems, their printers don’t work anymore, they have compatibility issues with everything Adobe and MS Office, lose business competitions just because their files can’t be opened by Windows, etc. etc. I’ll trust you Linux-is-easy people after you converted a few Windows / Apple / Adobe-dependent enterprise businesses.

Maybe I upped the game too much when I decided to run Kinoite on Pi…

This is why I like fediverse. Redditors would downvote this to oblivion.

I think I just block people who post these at this point

I mean, if people here don’t like how Reddit took advantage of user comment data, why should we archive the same without consent from the people who wrote them? Legally speaking Reddit holds the copyright also.

I admit C++ ain’t safe, but wonder if there’s an alternative to going Rust. Don’t get me wrong, I love the language. But Rust is a beast on its own. I read here that game devs generally can’t adapt Rust because the language forces frequent refactoring, which doesn’t fit the business speed of game development.

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I mean physically wiping out the disk is. Yes.

Generally speaking, all runtimes have been traditionally called programs. (On Unix systems runtimes are often synonymous to executables. I guess the term runtime is used more often by devs on the Windows and Java platform, and I think it is specifically an antonym of library, but not sure because I don’t develop on those often) Applications traditionally referred to programs that were exposed to the user through a mouse interaction by intention. On macOS an app has the .app extension and is thus a special type of a program.

Although, depending on the context, an “application” might just mean programs because even official tech manuals aren’t perfectly rigorous.

On Linux and Windows it is similar. They don’t have a specific extension (some .exe binaries on Windows are meant to be run through the commandline.)

Software is the antonym of hardware, as I wrote in another comment.

Honestly I’m surprised that people here don’t share this. The terminology was rather cleanly separated before iPhone. Unfortunately, due to smartphones the word “app” entered the mass population and it lost meaning as usual.