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>In other words, it's pretty common for Windows users to experience major driver breakage every time they upgrade to a new major version of Windows This is really a high level argu…

> For those unaware, Linux has a very explicit policy of never breaking userspace But has no qualm with constantly refactoring the kernel side of the coin for the most minor of rea…

> variable length arrays It was such a terrible feature it was made optional in the C11 standard (you can be a conforming C11 compiler and not allow this feature) and will never, e…

Most are DIY, anything that is low wattage can be turned fanless if you buy some parts and build it yourself. But OP was daft with his answer. As someone who doesn't like the Apple…

> I don't know of any IDE that provides even half of what i want TBH. > On Linux (which is my main OS these days) pretty much all options involve a text editor You obviously haven'…

As much as people may hate oracle, they employ significant contributors to the Linux kernel. https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/ Many in very important subsystems. The XFS maintainer …

> Granted, my experience with DEB has mostly been limited to Ubuntu - so it could be that/Canonical. It is not a Canonical specificity, but it is overridable behavior. For the dpkg…

Sid is not, contrary to what others replied to you, a proper rolling distro. Particularly during the times when there are freezes for a new stable release, the repositories can bec…

> How's the vim ecosystem now? Is vimscript still dominant? You can have a full neovim experience with all sorts of modern extensions without using a single line of vimscript. Some…

> These projects are no joke and a few hurray contributors not lasting more than a couple of months won't cut it. Those same contributors that remained on vim instead of neovim did…

> Let's see how much traction Vimscript9 will get. In practice, none. It's a wasteland. Extensions that aim to be compatible with both vim / neovim use the old vimscript, while lua…

I would not be so prompt to compare the situation with Apple and Jobs. Apple is a company that provides something no one else does while also holding a lock on its users. You can't…

> That's what set them apart, people wanted mp3 codecs and Nvidia drivers. Oh, it was far, far more than that. For example, wifi support was still extremely immature when the first…

> I had the misfortune of having to maintain an 18'000 line bash 3 script My hats off to you, I do not think I have the fortitude to stomach.. this. > run it with busybox with the …

People all too often forget that there is often a lot of extra documentation hidden in /usr/share/doc/ when you install -doc packages, at least on deb systems, and not just info an…

It is nothing as major as what Python does, but there are routine paper cuts through deprecation and breaking changes across versions, the most notable being 1.9 and 3.0. https://w…

> and slower. I like to write posix sh scripts for the sake of portability and, funnily enough, future proofing as I don't like having to maintain stuff against changes that break …

> I always expected to become fluent in bash at some point, but the AI became too good at writing my scripts now... This page : https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls Is the fast…

> Be warned, apparently Grub had some kind of problem back in August 2022 Are you referring to this? https://archlinux.org/news/grub-bootloader-upgrade-and-confi... This isn't the …

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st... This went to court and the man who sued for discrimination lost his case. > -- A man whose bid to become a police of…

> Which really, I feel, demonstrates the perverse incentives of free search. These pages display ads, so upranking them means more revenue for google, and you do the opposite. Goog…

>They wanted to control your computer. Palladium, and other features also is about control That level of control was already achieved on mobile. Android is the wet dream that Micro…

The problem with degoogling your phone in the west is that you may hit something that requires a non-rooted, pristine manufacturer provided rom to work. In my case, my bank won't a…

>Firefox had the reputation of eating RAM like candy. It wasn't unwarranted. They were dealing with a great deal of memory leak issues in the early Chrome vs FF era. The most impor…