For a complicated project I get it, github's PR system is kind of bad (horrible branch based workflow and no stacked diff support resulting in increased churn) compared to the alternatives.
That's why we have tools like Graphite to add stacked diff support on top of github, and other devs creating new VCSs because git still hasn't made it's interactive rebase and merge conflicts easy enough to handle for juniors and it should be simpler.
I don't have the time for a proper reply but just a heads-up about WSL2:
You can set up a dev drive to get around any IO issues by mounting a real storage drive directly into WSL2.
No one is entitled to anything from open-source projects.
I never said anything contrary to this.
but Mac/mac (what is it now?) without hardware or VMware wasn’t fun
Letting MacOS users support MacOS hardware is generally easy when you already have BSD and/or busybox support already.
Windows support should always be seen as charity, not an obligation, for all [open source] projects where it’s not the primary target platform.
Ordinarily I'd agree, except these are GUI Libraries.
The whole point of them is to be a generic interface that prevents you from needing to use the platform specific APIs directly.
If GUI libraries aren't going to target the most widely used platforms, then why wouldn't the developer just use the platform specific APIs directly?
Windows XP completely sucked until SP2
The service packs were mainly minor bug fixes, security changes, and support for new hardware. Besides a handful of new settings pages, almost none of the changes were noticed by users.
Also, of the whole windows XP era, SP2 is the one that most users experienced and remember.
, and then it was only “good” because it sucked less than what came before.
Windows XP came after both 2000 and ME. 2000 only focused on businesses and they loved it, and ME only lasted 2 weeks and was recalled, so almost no one had to deal with it. XP came after both good and bad versions of windows and was generally loved.
Windows 7 was only “good” because they undid the worst of the changes in Vista
Actually 7 was good because it continued the changes. Vista was half baked and rushed out due to the failure of the longhorn project. The user facing problems of vista fit into two buckets:
The new driver model wasn't given to hardware teams early enough so almost no hardware worked out of the box with Vista. And the hardware that did, often had stability issues because there wasn't enough time to test the drivers that they launched with.
Windows 7 used the exact same hardware driver model as Vista. People often thought changes were made to Windows but no, it just the fact that the hardware folks had enough time to sort out their own drivers and test them.
The poor optimisation was a Vista problem however. Vista was pushed out the door generally feature complete, but the devs didn't have enough time to optimise Vista's processes. Windows 7's internals were mostly the same as Vista's, except that the features were already there, so the devs could just focus on the already existing software.
and 8 sucked more.
8 actually continued the optimisations from 7, but the replaced UI was definitely a major screw up.
The same is largely true of 10, it’s only “good” because it’s less bad than 8.
10 actually continued the optimisations from 8, and the new UI resembling 7's was a welcome change.
Funnily enough, 11 actually continued some optimisations from 10, but you would never know because there's so much bloated adware inside it. That's why people like the "fixed" versions of Windows 11, like the regular version after running open source fix of choice (Win11Debloat, tronscript, etc...), the open source debloated installs (like Tiny11), or the official debloated/debloatable installs (Windows 11 IoT LTSC, Windows 11 Enterprise).
Windows 11 is optimised enough that a bunch of devs enjoy sticking it on ever underpowered and unsupported hardware. Someone ported it back to a 9 year old smartphone (32-bit arm), and recently someone got it running on a smartwatch. Technically, you could run an app in a containerised Windows 11 install on a server and have it take up 290mb storage but I wouldn't call that a typical windows 11 user experience.
I actively like my hybrid CLI + GUI workflow, and Windows offers a terrible CLI experience.
Windows used to offer a terrible CLI experience.
Now it comes with Windows Terminal and either powershell for a powerful non-posix shell, and WSL2 for whatever posix shell you want (and wslg for launching linux gui apps from said shells).
I highly doubt any script could make Windows usable for me. There’s just far too much I hate about it.
Windows XP and 7 were almost universally praised. They were consistently usable, productive, performant.
Windows 10 was seen as a successor to 7 but was more of a rolling release that saw a gradual transition to a new user interface for system components that was haphazard and lacklustre at first, but slowly improved over time. You can't really give Windows 10 a specific rating because what Windows 10 was changed over time.
Windows 11 is a case study in what happens when a product is stolen away from a product team and given to a business team with no product team oversight. They started off with a great base, created products they could commodify then bloated the base with those adware / microtransaction filled products.
The good thing is they couldn't change everything with wreckless abandon, lest they lose their enterprise customers, so every piece of bloat they added can be turned off with a switch somewhere for each enterprise's sysadmin to find.
The open source fixes mentioned above (Win11Debloat, tronscript, etc...) just run through every switch and turn them off. As soon as Microsoft's business team adds another "product" to windows 11, the open source community just adds the new switch to the open source fix.
The closest comparison is using the internet without an adblocker vs using the internet with an adblocker.
It's a night and day difference, and makes the internet actually useful again.
That said, opinions on openSUSE? It’s developed by SUSE employees (good or bad, depending on your perspective), Tunbleweed is arguably the best rolling distro, and the installer is great.
Personally I wouldn't recommend openSUSE purely because it's not really intended to be a general purpose OS. It's for a specialised use case and caters for those users in particular.
Let's not conflate defending OSs (and their derivatives) with the organisations that produce them.
Ubuntu has always been a great entry for Linux users yet canonical has always had at least one thing going on to infuriate the community (flip-flopping around half-baked DEs and the transitions between them, snaps, etc...)
Arch has always been the most customisable, but the leads have shied away from including a little setup wizard/script to automate what 90% of all users end up installing anyway.
Fedora has always been a great middleground, but on the other hand: Red Hat
Windows and Microsoft are no different. Base install Windows 11 is a 5/10 experience, but with your set-and-forget open source fix of choice (Win11Debloat, tronscript, etc...) becomes a solid 9/10 with next to no effort.
Good.
Too many libraries/frameworks/products don't factor in accessibility from the start.
Along the same vein, too many open source projects don't factor in non-"gnu/linux" environments from the start.
It's a lot harder to tack on after the fact rather than just having it be a part of the base design from the beginning.
Making these front and centre in a survey should be a be a bit of a wakeup for people who don't consider what doesn't run on their machines.
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The 2/3/4/5-000 series cards use a driver that's more open than the older cards, so nvidia support tends to be better than it was before.
Trump raises tariffs on China to 125% but announces 90-day pause for other countries – business live
Flip-flopping in and of itself isn't bad.
What it is - is a symptom.
A symptom of being an absolute dumbass. Now that is what's bad.
This is why you're meant to comment your code.
Your code tells you "what", your comments tell you "why".
Here's a good review of comments in the redis codebase: https://antirez.com/news/124
and those who prevent history from being taught, want to lift themselves up at the expense of others
The more windows falls down the enshittification spiral, the more likely the EU will get pissed at Microsoft and fund Linux environments where it's needed.
Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?
It doesn't port over any old comments/posts, but I'm pretty sure that when anyone @'s you, it's forwarded to the new account.
IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name.
It's worth pointing out that while ActivityPub doesn't currently support account migration (although there are proposals in the works for how to do this), Mastodon does have a weak form of support right now.
You can create a new account on another mastodon instance, then you're able to point your old account to your new account.
That's 41 degrees for everyone who doesn't measure things in bird per gun.
No one's asking nor wondering why you find looking at things in the sky beautiful.
They're asking why you're ascribing meaning to an arbitrary number of days. Months aren't subjective, they're arbitrary.
What to know about blue supermoons:
Why not reformat and use a more open filesystem?
You'd get less issues too!
Looking back at history, it would lead to more propaganda and more support for going to war.
A population getting attacked only leads to that population wanting to an us vs them mentality and emotional knee-jerk reactions over rational responses.
I really want to switch from VSCode to Helix but not having a file tree is a deal breaker.
Luckily there's been a lot of work on adding a plugin runtime with one of the proof-of-concept plugins being a file tree. Assuming the plugin runtime comes out this year in a helix release, and adding on a year for the community to settle on the first wave of plugins while giving them time to mature, I can see myself using helix fulltime in 2027 (before Microsoft has enshitified vscode enough to be unpleasant to use).