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Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by Andrex »

onehair wrote: post #73
Andrex wrote: post #54

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Comparing Gnome to Windows 10/11? No way.

Yes. The UX is much better. Linux customization capabilites are phenomenal I give you that, but it takes a very big amount of time if you want something specific for you, and when an update hits and things just break :-(

Gnome actually has a different philosophy. There wasn't much customization offered at first, as the focus was on nailing a single set of UX and aesthetics. And I think the Gnome team succeeded, but the lack of customization is/was divisive.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by permalac »

behnamoh wrote: post #189
WalterBright wrote: post #121

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It's from his daughter's book "Small Fry". It wasn't on his deathbed, though he was very sick. She had put on some cologne that didn't smell good.

Easy to say things behind someone who's already dead. How can we trust the book?

Read it.

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Post by pdpi »

Arjuna wrote: post #108
legrande wrote: post #3

This reminds me of Steve Jobs' email to himself. In 2010 he wrote: I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am moved by music I…

After reading this, I am reminded of the Buddhist concept of Pratītyasamutpāda [1]. In essence, existence is interwoven in a complex tapestry of interdependence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratītyasamutpāda

The concept of Ubuntu also occupies the same sort of space. Which makes sense when you consider Mark Shuttleworth is South African.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

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Post by Dalewyn »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #173
Bubble_Pop_22 wrote: post #140

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All Microsoft products are free of charge if you know where to look for them. Basically you have the big Fortune 500 companies subsidizing pirates who download from TPBay...and of course the pirate CD copies being sold in street markets all over Sub-Saharan Africa. Microsoft with Windows, Azure, Office, Outlook and PowerPoint is the backbone of the economy. Come noon you have already used half a dozen of different fl…

>All Microsoft products are free of charge if you know where to look for them. God no. I draw a hard line at pirating executable code. I forget where I read it but a not insignificant percentage of pirated software contains malware, and I don't know about you, but having my bank or brokerage account compromised would cost exponential orders of magnitude more than any software licence. Hell, I'm concerned enough about…

>I forget where I read it but a not insignificant percentage of pirated software contains malware,

That just means you don't know where to look.

>having my bank or brokerage account compromised would cost exponential orders of magnitude more than any software licence.

I agree. For anything that's important, especially if it's mission-critical or commercial in nature, go the legit way. Handing Microsoft some cash means you're buying legal assurance that something will work safely (FSVO safely) in a way where the chain of liability hopefully doesn't stop at you.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by Andrex »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #165
Dalewyn wrote: post #58

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I would pick the unholy abomination that is ExplorerMetroUWP in Windows 10/11 over GNOME any day of the week. GNOME is nigh unusable other than as an expensive piece of wall decor.

>GNOME is nigh unusable other than as an expensive piece of wall decor. Examples you can expand on?

Not the user you're replying to, but some workflows just don't work well in Gnome (yet).

But the combination of key shortcuts and mouse gestures makes it feel really nice to use in practice. Workspaces work like I'd expect, as do Alt+Tab and Alt+`. The built-in apps and settings have a level of consistency the Windows team could only dream of right now. Notifications in Gnome are fantastic. I could go on.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by idealmedtech »

scop wrote: post #180

Outside of OS & text editor (vim), there is one tool that I use countless times every, single, day: fzf ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ) I can only wonder how much time fzf has saved me in the long term. In terms of "software that I don't use for writing software", iA Writer is probably what I am most grateful for.

On a similar note for Windows: Everything Search. Blazing fast, super easy syntax, powerful search tools. Almost don't remember where most things are stored on my hard drive these days, since they're all just a shortcut and a few characters away

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by godshatter »

guhidalg wrote: post #42
jgillich wrote: post #29

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Software development is a much better experience on Linux compared to Windows (unless you stay within Visual Studio). If you do tasks that are well supported by your OS, your experience will be mostly good. Don't run servers on MacOS, don't develop on Windows and don't game on Linux. Or do it anyway and deal with the unpolished aspects of it.

Totally agree that development outside of Windows is better. However if a majority of your users are using Windows, shouldn't you, the developer, also use Windows? I think HN has a tired circle-jerk around hating Windows but ultimately most people use Windows for a reason, and it's not because it's a good development environment: it's because it just works and if you're a normal user you never have to open a command…

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Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by tucif »

Recently switched to macos for development and I'm really thankful to have found out about Shortcat and Raycast.

Combined with Tridactyl plugin on firefox, I can keep my hands on the keyboard for almost every task across the OS.

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