Incidentally, I must also be paid to use Windows.

I’ll gladly wait for the Node.js start menu to render on company time 👍

Two layers of “based on” in your OS is indeed a bit much.

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Or the (probably, IDK) more common way to do it accidentally, cd into /, think you’re somewhere else or type into the wrong shell, and then rm -rf *

A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth. This is what happened to his organs.

Commodore as a brand has ruined every company that’s ever bought it. Cursed brand some say.

Wine would still be better though, especially if they have the source code. Can be used like a dependency to produce a Linux compatible package like how Java applications either bundle or depend on a JVM in the package manager.

Wouldn’t Microsoft be the main perpetrator of this in office software? Google Docs, LibreOffice, etc have to read their .docx files correctly so they keep changing how it works?

I didn’t even google much about GNOME or KDE. But I did have an exploration period where I opened every dropdown I saw to see what options are there and perused through the settings to see all the things I can change, mapping out how the software works.

A little curiosity goes a long way for getting to know a GUI software IMO. A computer is a complex tool that needs to be mapped out at least a little bit before you need to seriously use it.

I don’t deny that many Linux apps have bad UX and can benefit from improvement. But I don’t like the pretentious way these blogs talk about it, and act like the developers are somehow obligated to fix it for them like it’s a paid product and they’re the customer. If they identify a problem in open source, why not contribute to the solution instead of just demanding a solution from people working for free out of passion like they owe you?

Honestly, the entitlement of the “Linux has bad UX” crowd really pisses me off. Yeah Linux is definitely as unusable as a hammer without a handle, guy. Hit the nail on the head with your handleless hammer right there. Give yourself a pat on the back for your metaphor skills 👍

Mac and Windows have billion dollar UX teams. Linux apps have almost entirely volunteer developers with at most some employees in a tiny company or nonprofit with shoestring budgets.

Mac and Windows have invasive UX “research” by recording user interactions behind their back. Most Linux apps don’t even have the ability to record interaction data by design and intention.

Mac and Windows make money directly from people using their platforms so obviously they’re going to do everything they can to keep you on the platform. Linux apps are donation funded with the occasional enterprise/professional support contract.

Windows and Mac users don’t give a shit about how well the underlying code works because they’re not supposed to see it, and it’s very clear the companies know that and have prioritised accordingly. Linux developers are disproportionately in it for the love of programming and prefer to spend their time actually programming as opposed to doing wireframes or UI markup. Linux UIs tend to get made once and then not touched for years until something absolutely needs to change.

If you compare Linux’s (read: mostly random people developing in their free time’s) UX to the literal biggest tech companies in the world, then you will never run out of things to bemoan Linux for. This is like complaining that your gearhead buddy’s project car has metal toggle switches in random places instead of a nice flowing panel like a brand new car straight off the dealership.

TL;DR: Pull request, long term funding toward establishing a UX team, or STFU. Stop making demands to volunteers and nonprofits and start actually contributing to UX improvements if you care so much. A major ethos of open source is “you don’t like it? You fix it.”

I picked up both GNOME and KDE as a long time Windows user like that. On both mouse and trackpad.

I can’t even figure out how to drag and drop on my friend’s Macbook. Or a lot of other basic things.

If anything Macs are the odd one out with their control scheme, though I’m certainly not ruling out skill issue. But if you claim skill issue on my inability to use a Mac then I’m claiming skill issue on your inability to use Linux.

Thanks!

How do you get a local model to search stuff on your local computer for you? I’d love this in an IDE to emulate the functionality of Copilot for simple issues!

Your life in plain .md files.

Why not just, you know, actual plain .md files and your directory navigator and text editor of choice (often the ones that that already come with your Linux distro)? Or code editor if you want them together? Don’t forget the terminal if you want to go even simpler. Always worked for me, I don’t even use the formatted view half the time because *this* already conveys the same information as this in my mind. Hell throw a git repo in there and you have better version control than full office suites.

I honestly think the fancy wrappers around Markdown files defeat the elegant minimalism of using Markdown in the first place. I’ve always found my favourite “feature” of Markdown is that you don’t need to install anything.

OpenAI’s vastly inferior LLM sends its regards

I’d imagine Rust’s strict enforcement of a few specific patterns makes the assembly more predictable than C/++ where you can do literally anything?

Interestingly, developers in ecosystems like Go, Rust, and those utilizing native Web APIs—where robust standard libraries drastically reduce reliance on third-party code and strict cryptographic verification is built into the core toolchain

Does NPM really not do cryptographic verification or is this part of the joke? I always assumed the attacks were due to a compromised key or something, but this is implying you can just push whatever you want to an NPM package if you have the author’s login?

Also, Chinese cities don’t give a shit if you decorate the outside of your unit. HOAs do.

Literally one of the first complaints libs have about Chinese cities is “copy paste skyscrapers everywhere.” They have some variety in parts of the city but most of the residential areas are still “boring” and “homogeneous” and “designed to kill individualism” according to Western internet geniuses.

Minimalism in GUIs, maybe (still, give me CLI any day). But minimalism in housing and infrastructure is absolutely critical and they are absolutely not equal to software. We need to be as efficient as we can because I don’t know if the author has noticed the state of housing in the world. How many more “boring, dull” buildings could be built for the same price? How many more if we copy pasted the same designs instead of demanding everything be unique? (But god forbid they be too different from the existing style or else the NIMBYs protesting minimalist buildings complain about that too.) The people who “prefer” the visually complex building have never been homeless in the back alley of that building before, nor have they ever been priced out of their neighbourhood by gentrification when their boring gray building gets torn down to build the pretty building.