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I think I have written about this some time back. Care to read it and find out if it is related to your assessment? http://blog.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/using-m

I think I have written about this some time back. Care to read it and find out if it is related to your assessment? http://blog.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/using-mac-os-x-as-a-self-binding-device http://blog.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/using-mac-os-x-as-a-sel... Changing the GUI has a function, btw. Just yesterday I wrote a custom stylesheet for Slack because its developers chose “the right values” for people who can see gray-on-grey “contrast” well (so, not me).

tajen 10y ago
There is some time I spend procrastinating, but during my year with Ubuntu at work I was really annoyed by everyday things, enough to suspend my task and fix my configuration, so I wouldn't describe it as procrastination. I didn't fix things I could work with (e.g. when I switched on, I would execute some commands in the shell to fix the mouse...). Anyway we can discuss for long, but in the end I believe if Linux OSes had the amount of money that Apple has to hire UX designers, marketers and devs who don't mind doing mundane bugfixing, at least one version on Linux would become perfect. It was supposed to be Ubuntu, but let's hope it's the next one.
- erlehmann_ 10y ago
  When I fix something, I immediately send it upstream, did you do that? I just did it now after I fixed a bug, so that neither me nor anyone else has the problem in the future. Debian has a program called „reportbug“ which you invoke with the package or file name related to the bug, even if you do not have a solution. I think a distribution like Debian should appeal to you for its focus on quality. New packages in Debian move first to the Unstable distribution and then after some time to the Testing distribution. Testing is “freezed” before a Stable release to weed out remaining bugs. [1] Debian also has a tool called “apt-listbug” that warns you before installing a new version of a package that has a known bug and gives you an option to not update that package automatically for as long as that bug exists. What Ubuntu does is just putting its own stuff on top of Debian Unstable (or Testing, when it does a Long Term Support release). They have next to no quality control. When I drew glyphs for Unifont, this meant that for half a year, Ubuntu had a half-finished Unifont it imported from Debian Testing at the wrong time. I got complaints as I told people to install Unifont to play my Unicode proof-of-concept roguelike [2]. The guy from the article I wrote eventually did use Debian. I think he fiddled around with Emacs for over a month until he arrived at his “perfect” setup (which is different for everyone, by the way). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian [2] http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/zoo-tycoon-roguelike-mockup.html http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/zoo-tycoon-roguel...

tajen 10y ago

There is some time I spend procrastinating, but during my year with Ubuntu at work I was really annoyed by everyday things, enough to suspend my task and fix my configuration, so I wouldn't describe it as procrastination. I didn't fix things I could work with (e.g. when I switched on, I would execute some commands in the shell to fix the mouse...). Anyway we can discuss for long, but in the end I believe if Linux OSes had the amount of money that Apple has to hire UX designers, marketers and devs who don't mind doing mundane bugfixing, at least one version on Linux would become perfect. It was supposed to be Ubuntu, but let's hope it's the next one.

erlehmann_ 10y ago
When I fix something, I immediately send it upstream, did you do that? I just did it now after I fixed a bug, so that neither me nor anyone else has the problem in the future. Debian has a program called „reportbug“ which you invoke with the package or file name related to the bug, even if you do not have a solution. I think a distribution like Debian should appeal to you for its focus on quality. New packages in Debian move first to the Unstable distribution and then after some time to the Testing distribution. Testing is “freezed” before a Stable release to weed out remaining bugs. [1] Debian also has a tool called “apt-listbug” that warns you before installing a new version of a package that has a known bug and gives you an option to not update that package automatically for as long as that bug exists. What Ubuntu does is just putting its own stuff on top of Debian Unstable (or Testing, when it does a Long Term Support release). They have next to no quality control. When I drew glyphs for Unifont, this meant that for half a year, Ubuntu had a half-finished Unifont it imported from Debian Testing at the wrong time. I got complaints as I told people to install Unifont to play my Unicode proof-of-concept roguelike [2]. The guy from the article I wrote eventually did use Debian. I think he fiddled around with Emacs for over a month until he arrived at his “perfect” setup (which is different for everyone, by the way). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian [2] http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/zoo-tycoon-roguelike-mockup.html http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/zoo-tycoon-roguel...