What you're missing is that they want the people to fight them so they have an excuse to attack them more. And these excuses work retroactively too. They bomb, wait for a retaliation, then they say "see, we were right to bomb them," followed by an even bigger attack. Repeat till there's nothing left to bomb.
Iirc they only want the difference in tax if you're in a country where you're paying less. I'm guessing in most (all?) EU countries you'd pay more, so you wouldn't need to pay anything. It seems quite sensible.
There used to be x86 Android phones. But they kept that port going even after the phones went away because it was good for development on x8 machines. You could just run a VM instead of having to emulate an arm ISA.
Gnome forced me onto Wayland a few weeks ago and I've been dealing with issues ever since. Some issues even affecting the most basic level tasks like typing text, imagine dealing with that in 2025. Following your analogy, if the Uber with the fancy new transmission came to a halt every kilometre, you'd care too.
Once in a while, it turns out that enabling -fms-extensions could allow some slightly prettier code. But every time it has come up, the code that had to be used instead has been deemed "not too awful" and not worth introducing another compiler flag for.
That's probably true for each individual case, but then it's somewhat of a chicken/egg situation.
If we just "bite the bullet" as Linus says and enable it once and for all, it is available whenever a use case turns up, and no individual case has to justify it.
And xorg is older than it appears, as it was forked from the much older XFree86 over licensing disagreements. XFree86 started in 1991 according to Wikipedia.
I finally had to switch recently because I use gnome, and they removed the X11 session. I managed to sort out most of the missing parts needed for my workflow, but it still feels like a downgrade. It feels much more sluggish, things that were instant now take a second, and I've been under a constant barrage of bugs and glitches. Some make the whole experience feel like using amateur software. I'll be typing, then press a global shortcut to launch some software, and I'll end up with whole desktop pausing for a second and the shortcut inserted in my text 20 times. And this happens a few times a day. Just one example.
I've almost exclusively used Linux desktop for the past decade and it was a smooth experience, but with gnome-wayland I finally understand the people that were always complaining about everything being broken and glitchy.
I can understand having some bugs, but if text or mouse input doesn't work properly, or if using my new laptop suddenly feels like using my much slower old one, then I may as well look for a different desktop.
More like:No system package -> installing from user repos -> appimage -> flatpak -> creating your own package -> using a VM with a distro that has the package -> not installing package
If after that you still don't have it, it wasn't meant to be it's probably just not very good software.
That's why they're called veggie burgers, or are you just unfamiliar with how language works? Would you accept a glass of body milk with your breakfast?
I've had it run on wine a few years back, but it's hard to say if it would still run now as they change it all the time. Freecad is ok for simpler designs, but if you do complex cad work, you hit its limits (clunky and buggy). There's always onshape though, works perfectly fine on Linux.
I use quadlets instead - it's part of podman and lets you manage containers as systemd services. Supports automatic image updates and gives you all the benefits of systemd service management. There's a tool out there that will convert a docker compose config into quadlet unit files giving you a quick start, but I just write them by hand.
You forgot to include the grandchild and the daughter that were with him and also died.