Those characters have become useful to laypeople since they are useful to programmers though. Turns out when you standardize a character set, people will find a way to use basically all the characters in it.
Think mall food court, but not owned by the shittiest landlord in town. Or centralized stalls for food trucks that can all serve at one central court, or dispatch to events or other locations to serve food.
The dining halls are kinda making a comeback in a lot of places. That's also the food truck model. We have tons of places in my town with smaller kitchens in a centralized dining hall, that are basically just local versions of a mall food court.
Turns out it's a lot easier to maintain when there's a dozen or so restaurants sharing resources and centralizing customers.
Food trucks are great too because they can go to their customers and prevent people going to them. Also really good to have in emergency situations, since they basically just need gas and a generator and can cook food. Plus you can move them away from floods and danger.
That was the second part of my post, there are cases where it's inevitable that you're gonna have to use Windows, but I also know that IT teams at big companies are at their breaking point with Microsoft and it honestly wouldn't surprise me if institutions start migrating over the coming years.
One of the biggest infractions I've seen recently (besides the updates that totally broke recovery) was forced injection of ChatGPT into an update that essentially created a massive legal and security vulnerability for anyone using the latest update.
Legal firms, medical institutions, and companies with secure data protocols all suddenly had users that got AI integration directly into their OS that was straight up reading sensitive internal documents and funneling that data back to Microsoft for a few days until it was caught and shut down.
That alone is enough to make those institutions start to think about continuing to use Microsoft products and will make the already vocal calls from IT to make the switch much easier to justify.
I did that, they wanted me to get a writeup for them since they couldn't figure out how to get strongswan configured and a decent RDP connection established on Linux.
freerdp and some nmcli bash scripts saved me lol. Now I run one command to connect to a work PC with all my monitors then kill the connection to jump back into Linux. Even got drive bindings with USB and printer passthrough working
Yeah, he had some really bad tourettes and some other psychosis stuff. I'm not sure how much of what he said was his actual serious opinions and how much was the ramblings of a man who thought God was telling him to write an OS.
It's actually surprisingly easy to switch now if you don't have any super specific software that you need Windows for. Even then it's gotten easy to set up virtual windows containers to run those specific programs.
There's so many distros out there that everyone can find an existing, well maintained one, that comes with all the features they want. I know that people who aren't Windows power users find the switch to Linux virtually stress free and painless. Anyone who does technical stuff on Windows is usually able to pretty quickly transition to a POSIX shell and get the bonus of not having the bloated, broken registry system of Windows for configuration.
Adobe, ESRI, Autodesk (anything that's super integrated into the .NET windowing system) are really the only big ones that make switching hard for some people. Games and stuff basically just work now thanks to Proton and the fact that AI workloads are usually run on a Linux server so NVIDIA has had to make it easier to use their Linux drivers.
As long as they stayed on the surface, they should be okay. It's pretty insane how effective pools are at stopping radiation.
IIRC, you can tread water in a reactor pool for a while before having a bad time. And since the radioactive stuff is all denser than water, the dangerous particles sink so minimal exposure to danger on the ingestion front.
Those characters have become useful to laypeople since they are useful to programmers though. Turns out when you standardize a character set, people will find a way to use basically all the characters in it.