I know. Then they process those user agent strings to decide what OS it is. The question is why are they treating OSX and macOS as different OSes when they are the same? It was literally just a rebrand.

Also note the drop in Chrome OS mirrors the rise in Linux so I wouldn’t rule out this just being user agent changes.

Why do they even have two lines for OS X and macOS? It’s the same thing.

Misguided investment IMO. Smart glasses hardware is still at least a decade from being something that normal people would want.

Yeah what desktop environment doesn’t get out of your way? Even Windows with the ads enabled leaves you alone 99.99% of the time.

That is a very optimistic view! I decided to make a presentation in OpenOffice recently instead of Google Slides. It actually couldn’t even show my bullet points in the right order. It revealed them like 1, 3, 2.

I guess you can make it work and the sovereignty & financial savings for a large number of users is maybe worth the pain, but let’s not pretend the Linux desktop is really close to Windows/Office in terms of quality and reliability.

Gotta agree on the name. Please choose meaningful names especially for low level components like drivers, libraries and CLI tools. It’s fine for end-user facing applications to have unique names like Blender, Krita, Inkscape, Chrome, etc. But nobody wants to have to look up what the name of random system packages is.

and it’s like this /

Only because they clearly don’t want the slashes going the same way. I almost pointed that out but I thought it was obvious.

https://support.miles-mobility.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403820974098-Which-no-parking-signs-exist-in-Germany

A tail isn’t furry? Right.

That’s… not the same symbol. He’s right it does go the other way.

I think it’s more natural to go NE-SW though because that’s it’s easier to draw like that.

This is deliberately not allowed in order to ensure that Linux remains exclusive for nerds.

It does kind of feel like they could just set up a Signal account?

Hmm I’m not sure if this is solid parametric CAD. It let me draw a rectangle and then extrude that giving a zero-width tube… There doesn’t seem to be any way to add dimensions either.

Definitely loads quickly though and feels snappy. But for actually getting stuff done FreeCAD is definitely the best FOSS option at the moment.

Well… isn’t it? If one’s daily or most frequent back-and-forth journeys don’t exceed 100 ㎞, then a 160 ㎞ range is indeed fine.

Uhm… No. Most people only have one car so if you get one that only works 95% if the time it’s going to be super inconvenient when you have to hire a car every time you go on holiday or visit your family or go to a distant concert or whatever.

That’s why low range electric cars are not very popular.

Because most users simply use the browser

This is the same problem as saying “an electric car with 100 mile range is totally fine because most journeys are well under 100 miles”.

Most of the time I’m only using a browser (or VSCode). The annoying thing is the 1% of times when I want to print something, create a shortcut, use bluetooth headphones, configure a static IP, etc.

Use Photopea instead. It’s practically a copy-paste of Photoshop but in the browser, created by one person. Or if one has never used Photoshop before, try GIMP first.

Saying Photopea or GIMP is “practically a copy-paste of Photoshop” is laughable. Paint.NET, maybe.

No, I said that some important features don’t exist. They said “well I don’t use them”, as if that somehow negated the point that they don’t exist. It’s typical “works for me” nonsense. You get these replies whenever anyone says anything is suboptimal about Linux. It’s so tedious.

Good for you I guess?

These are probably the biggest reasons, but I think even after literally decades of development the actual desktop is still far behind Windows XP in many respects.

For example today I wanted to add a “start menu” shortcut to a program I had downloaded. The most popular answer is to *manually create a .desktop file and copy it to some obscure dot directory! Hilarious. Even Windows 3.1 had a built-in GUI for this.

Ok so there is a GUI to do it, but it isn’t actually integrated into desktops and isn’t installed by default. You have to install it separately.

It’s the same for things like WiFi settings! There are some settings in GNOME but most are hidden in the third party nm-connection-editor (from memory) and of course GNOME doesn’t have an “advanced settings” button to open that.

There are so many of these paper cuts I think Linux would be quite a frustrating experience for many people even if if had Windows-level hardware support.

I also can’t see this changing any time soon. Not that many Linux devs actually care about this sort of thing and many of them don’t even understand that it is a problem in the first place. Cue replies.

I used to use a separate Git client but it feels really clunky after using VSCode / Git Graph. I think this stuff really needs to be built in to your IDE to get the most use out of it.

(Not that I think VSCode/Git Graph are the pinnacle of Git GUIs. VSCode’s git support is kind of janky and Git Graph is unfortunately abandoned and not fully open source.)