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by trelane 1y ago
If Linux users had "stepped up to the plate" and demanded their own separate PKI, nothing would be different, except that every system that shipped with Windows would be locked to Windows. Dual booting would not be a thing. I mean
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by trelane 1y ago
As a Linux user, I am shocked-- shocked! --to hear that consumer hardware vendors are taking shortcuts and abandoning maintenance as soon as they can.
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> So, guys, I don’t want to kill your enthusiasm, but this sounds very much like We are just pretending to release a SteamOS version but in fact we advertise the Windows model everywhere instead. Since I am familiar with large companies,
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by trelane 1y ago
"No longer?!"
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It's also Merriam-Webster, a descriptivist dictionary. Others are of a prescriptionist bent. For example, Cambridge: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/retic... More on prescriptive v
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by trelane 1y ago
Well, parts of it do, anyway. As with .net, it is not intended to let you easily get away from Microsoft. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats...
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by trelane 1y ago
> make money money money money. Subject, of course, to Microsoft allowing you to continue to use their software.
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by trelane 1y ago
You could make an argument for emacs, but probably not using emacs as a pure text editor.
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> Many developers don't even really know how to user a terminal and rely on GUI tools. Fortunately, Linux users can also avail themselves of a graphical interface as well.
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by trelane 1y ago
> I do hope one day that Microsoft put a proper GUI on Linux though, no X, no Wayland, but something smarter and better than those. https://xkcd.com/927/ Now that I say that, though, that does sound like a Microso
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by trelane 1y ago
> You have full access to this article via your institution. I would suggest to Nature that this phrase hints at much larger a problem than showing authors arguing with Reviewer 2.
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Man, amazing what all "research" can do these days
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I disagree
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What's more, you can pay for local dev! I imagine not sending money to the US and keeping it local is not a small consideration.
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That are also a, if not the , major contributor to LibreOffice.
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The companies falling to malware and extortion/ransomware would seem to indicate otherwise
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If it exists, I expect it would be in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu. Most of us don't use those, though, so I don't expect the knowledge is common.
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Hopefully they're using Collabora or similar, so they can get support and to help fund the development.
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by trelane 1y ago
even without reproducible builds, you (or someone you hire or someone who's motivated) can get the source and create a drop-in replacement. This is even more true on some other distros, eg Gentoo. Without source and rights, Windows fai
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by trelane 1y ago
Aaah. That makes sense. Thanks!
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by trelane 1y ago
Thanks. Fair points all around. We do not have any of these considerations in the US, which is perhaps part of why so much stuff comes directly from abroad.
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by trelane 1y ago
There is a whole table with different numbers that vary by EU country. Look for "List of (import) VAT rates in EU countries"
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Why does it matter if it's the same number as a line item on the invoice vs you pay it to UPS upon receipt? It's the same price.
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> But those different rates depend on the product category, not the product manufacturer or place of origin. They do, though: https://stripe.com/en-ch/resources/more/import-tax-germany
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> have no idea why someone from System76 would think it's relevant to have an EU distribution center, but it wouldn't change the VAT. It seems to be the customers asking for one, not System76. They were planning to open one, t
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by trelane 1y ago
To some extent, they seem interchangeable. For instance, any time System76 is brought up for Europeans, VAT is immediately mentioned, along with why they don't have a European distribution center. Why would opening a European distribut
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by trelane 1y ago
> Then you cannot claim that Linux works out of the box. It doesn't if you need to select hardware for it That is not what that means. At all. > Your usual Linux laptop OEMs like System76 and Tuxedo just buy better combinations o
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by trelane 1y ago
WSL is better than no option, sure. It's not as good as Linux on Linux hardware. The hackers sure. Reverse engineering takes a lot of skill and my hat's off to them. Almost everyone here, though, are not in either camp. Most hav
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by trelane 1y ago
Firmware also plays a huge role these days (fan curves, ACPI, power management, etc.) But saying it can vary largely by distro is overstating it by a lot. Mostly, distro issues are going to be based on how old their kernels are. But defin
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> The less coupled software is to hardware, the less likely it is tested in that hardware and the higher likelihood of bugs. Yes, exactly! There are whole teams inside Dell etc. dealing with this. The term is "system integration.&

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