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> Your comment is correct but it's a response to an entirely different and orthogonal point which I did not propose and wouldn't try to. You're right, I was mixing up threads, I ap…

To be clear, I wasn't arguing that a user is less likely to run into issues on Windows (or Mac). The bigger issue is that when they invariably run into an issue it's significantly …

It's better than it was 20+ years ago (jeez I'm old) when I first tried Linux. Back then you needed to be fairly technical to get it running and even to do basic day-to-day tasks, …

> Point-and-click instructions are limited to only 1 desktop... If a consumer product (computer, phone, TV, microwave, printer, radio, oven, washing machine, etc) requires reading …

Nontechnical folks are fine using a computer until they're not, at which point they need to find someone with more experience or become someone with more experience. Many Windows o…

> whether requiring them to copy and paste is actually any more secure than allowing click-to-install... Agreed. If your operating system requires that you occasionally search for …

I think it depends on how you define "easier". Once someone learns how to use the requisite terminal commands and does so frequently enough that they do not forget them, I agree th…

> for a lot of people that is also a complete dealbreaker for whatever reason Seems like a perfectly reasonable dealbreaker to me. Terminal commands are a raw UI that is neither in…

I'm not saying local first will help or hinder UI latency, merely that UI latency is indeed a valid evaluation criteria for software.

> Western strain of extreme pacifism While there certainly are some Western hackers who eschew all military applications because of their extreme pacifism, the examples in the arti…

> any minivan on the market is going to do an acceptable and safe speed Growing up my folks had an old Winnebago van that took 2+ minutes to hit 60mph which made highway merges a w…

They have renders of what a passenger van variant would look like but my understanding is that this is just aspirational and will not be produced unless the 5-seat truck variant is…

I suppose there's no accounting for taste. Personally I find the increasingly large bulbous noses tacked on to the front of US trucks ridiculous. The fact that these "codpieces" ar…

I have never met anyone who preferred to keep the dome light on all night even at the expense of being able to start the car the next day. Similarly, I can't think of a use case fo…

> I'm more surprised that any application can prevent sleep _when you close the lid_. Absolutely. If my options are 1) halt the process when the lid closes or 2) let the battery di…

I've spent many hours debugging my Macbook's erratic insomnia and the only thing I know is that WindowServer is the culprit and it'll likely require a full OS reinstall, which has …

> It is a genuine concern and should be addressed. No disagreement, but does the comment meaningfully contribute to the discussion about this particular project?

I hear this complaint about designers wanting radical redesigns or chasing trends, but the actual UX designers I've worked with seem to prefer spending time on usability testing, e…

If only one company offers jobs in your profession or skill set, that company has a labor monopsony. Back when companies provided lifetime job security and pensions, moving to a re…

> Can someone help me understand when this bifurcation happened The distinction is as old as art and design. If I had to pick modern moments that articulated it well I'd go with Ar…

> the designer is to dream and your job is to build it You may be thinking of an artist. A designer's job is to understand and solve user problems. (FYI this is coming from a desig…

Similar to software developers, there's a difference between meeting a user need with with established patterns and exploring novel ones. The vast majority of consumer and enterpri…

I agree with many of your statements but draw the opposite conclusion. HTML and CSS are expressive, have a vast selection of libraries and tools, and can actually result in shippab…

> Employers, you can't have it both ways. Exactly. Though you can learn a lot about an employer by how it has conducted layoffs. Did they cut profits and management salaries and at…

> you clearly arent an OS engineer either. Correct, though I do regularly deal with the same class of assumption, where folks suggest that if I just hired a couple people to work o…