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symlinkk
6y ago
And yet, they have built the most popular desktop environment for Linux. To me, GNOME (on Fedora) feels more polished and visually consistent than Windows 10, which is impressive considering the massive imbalance of resources between those
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How would the general public create a collaborative online encyclopedia if the people paid to do it for a living have problems doing it? How would the general public create an open source operating system if the people paid to do it for a l
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6y ago
I disagree. One good example is switching between windows of the same application. On Fedora, I can do this with Ctrl + Tilde. On Windows, there is no shortcut for this. On Mac, this only works if the app is not in full screen mode.
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6y ago
I thought that’s what tags were for.
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6y ago
Wait hardware has source code? I’m just a web dev so I’m not aware of this. What does the code look like?
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6y ago
How is it a catastrophe? I game every day on AMD on Linux and have no issues. 99.9% of consumers don’t care about overclocking so if that’s what you’re referring to I think it’s a non-issue.
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6y ago
What do they even design? All of the components inside their computers are off the shelf products from other companies.
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6y ago
Have you used GNOME? Download Fedora and tell me it’s not more visually consistent than Windows
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6y ago
What do you mean by “the promises that the type system makes are unreliable”?
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If it’s so simple why don’t they build it into emacs?
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6y ago
TypeScript has this too
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6y ago
So functionally there is no difference? It’s just a user perception thing?
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6y ago
The TypeScript support is implemented as an extension.
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6y ago
We are almost recovered from COVID, I don’t think it’s that.
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6y ago
Weirdly enough this doesn't work when apps are in full screen mode, which Apple has been pushing lately.
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6y ago
Callback hell? What is this, 2014?
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6y ago
If you need an external tool to understand code it’s an indication that something is wrong.
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6y ago
I think they can, look at TypeScript and VSCode. Something is going right.
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6y ago
This is a good question and is something I’m wondering too. The same phenomenon is occurring on Tinder, where women will get hundreds of matches and men will get less than 10.
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6y ago
> unofficial And there lies the problem.
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6y ago
How far do you go with that? Should web browsers render .docx?
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6y ago
Is that stable?
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6y ago
At that point you might as well just delete them.
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6y ago
Let’s hear some specific examples.
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6y ago
The only thing you really need is uBlock Origin and a password manager. Everything else is fluff.
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6y ago
How exactly does that help? You’re saying a low calorie, low protein, low carb diet makes you feel better? Where are you getting your energy from then?
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6y ago
Mountain biking is the only form of exercise I enjoy
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6y ago
Agreed. And why is the default behavior of the green maximize button to make things fullscreen? I never see people use fullscreen in real life
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6y ago
What if cookies were opt in? E.g. blocked by default everywhere unless you decide to allow them, same as access to the webcam for example.
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6y ago
It’s the free market working as intended - if most people cared, the first site to stop doing auto playing videos would get more traffic and other sites would follow. As of right now, the benefit of auto playing videos outweighs the cost of
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