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But you don't love it unlike some more devoted people?
You need intense love to use a mac without (real) games, or Linux without (meaningful) GUI. Windows has both, so it doesn't require devotion to use.
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Dave's Garage is a channel with genuinely interesting content and is very knowledgeable about all things Microsoft/Windows. However (I hate to be this guy) take everything he says about non Microsoft/Windows stuff with a huge grain of salt. Especially after this comment he made [1]: >" No, Windows is a closed-source operating system loved by millions. Linux is an open-source operating system which includes a binary b…
That comment is replying to someone saying "Windows is a rootkit". To me it looks like someone replying to an absurd, untrue statement about Windows with an obviously untrue, absurd statement about Linux. Unless this is part of a larger pattern of inaccurately describing Linux, I don't believe he literally believes what he is saying in this comment.
I think the most likely thing is that he's confused about firmware blobs and is mixing things up.
He probably never looked much at Linux and just heard a few things here and there. He was at Microsoft during the Balmer "Linux is cancer" and "get the facts" era, so that probably coloured his view a bit.
That said, I agree you shouldn't attach too much meaning to a singular comment like this. Maybe he was joking after all, or maybe he was just wrong. We're all wrong sometimes, and that's okay.
Edit: he seems to have an entire "Linux vs Windows Round 1: Open Source vs Proprietary" video, but I didn't watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZADRy5W0c
I knew someone who worked on the Windows kernel in the "aughts". Apparently, Dave Cutler was still looking at kernel code reviews back then, and could be quite unsparing in his feedback.
Sounds like another kernel maintainer we all know.
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Why would you believe this easily disproven (via brief use of Apple products) myth???
I do use them. The hardware is impeccable. The software is admittedly more spotty. But even then, the OS is great. All in all, I can't think of a better platform or I'd use it.
And the question wasn't about a better platform or the vague "greatness", but the myth of perfection, the one where serious bugs unfixed for years should be enough to dispel
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He doesn't have ADHD, he's autistic. But for some reason the youtube algorithm assumes they are the exact same thing.
In fairness to the algorithm, Autism, ADHD, and OCD have significant core presentation overlap, and often get talked about in the same spaces online. There's probably a high relation in their searches for the topics. Doesn't stop the Youtube algorithm from easily being the worst of the major social media sites though.
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I wish I would have more spiritual and material insights onto how the 24/7 grind mindset became widespread in USA, possibly via Calvinism and the Protestant work ethic. The foundations do prescribe regular perusal of relief valves. 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work,…
24/6 grind kinda sucks though. We need three point five Sabbath days really.
For myself, I need 1.5-2 days of off-time, depending what I'm working on. I consider myself a constant grindstone-lover, and most of the people I work around seem to reflect your 3.5 number, but I've seen some people who probably need 5 days off a week.
No shame in any of it, though. Everyone's wired differently. The USA has a unique taboo about "enjoying life", and I blame its post-WWII militarized culture for the most of it.
Near the tail end of WinNT 3.1 development, I read an article (possibly from Usenet) about someone creating a screensaver that showed a bluescreen. I had never created a screensaver before. I could reliably cause my WinNT dev box to bluescreen due to a bug in an internal Microsoft network driver. So I read the docs for writing a Windows screensaver. After writing down the values shown for my bluescreen, I cobbled tog…
Unix koans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286973