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This comment reads like you've never lived through a browser monopoly. Sure it's great now, but do you think Google will work as hard and dedicate as much budget if there are two or even worse - just one - viable browser?
I lived through the tail-end of the Internet Explorer monopoly, and tried to push Firefox with those willing to try it. I don't want an IE 2021 in the form of Chrome with a broken web for other clients.
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i look at advancements like this in Windows and think it's really cool. But after spending so many years, especially in the late 90s and early 2000s, getting shit from a bunch of khaki wearing, corporate butt kissing MSCE types about how Linux is "get what you pay for" and constantly mocking that all this "free software can't do anything" and then sitting back and watching Linux empowering cloud computing, Unix/Linux…
> " watching Microsoft do things like making Notepad use Unix EOL characters " A system which still pretends you're talking through a teletype, a system where it would make sense to use both CR and LF together and individually to move the cursor accross or down or both, shuns it. Windows never did mandate it, applications can use any line ending they like, but used it as a convention for backwards compatability with…
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That is exactly what I love about Windows 11 particularly. I don't have to deal the abdominations like Microsoft News, just a winget away. Don't like Edge? winget uninstall -e "Microsoft.Edge"
Can winget also uninstall the Microsoft Store and all their spyware/telemetry/advertising BS?
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Really? What does Google deserve when it nags me about switching to chrome whenever I use any of their pages from a browser that's not chrome?
Whataboutism. Google probably also deserves this treatment, but we're talking about Microsoft.
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I lived through the tail-end of the Internet Explorer monopoly, and tried to push Firefox with those willing to try it. I don't want an IE 2021 in the form of Chrome with a broken web for other clients.
We wouldn't have that problem if Gecko and Webkit went away and everything was Blink.
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We wouldn't have that problem if Gecko and Webkit went away and everything was Blink.
If that happened five years ago, everything would be Amp and PNaCl. The diverse ecosystem keeps the Chrome engineers in check.
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To clarify, when you say these are "non-utopian", it would help to know what that means to you. I honestly think blender is a technical marvel that in many cases is better than its proprietary counterparts. The bar is quite high for these kinds of specialised and very expensive software. So, if blender is "bad", then perhaps the bar is set so high, that I don't think I can give a satisfactory answer. "Utopian" in tha…
> To clarify, when you say these are "non-utopian", it would help to know what that means to you. I'm using the dictionary definition of "utopian", which is "Of, relating to, describing or having the characteristics of a Utopia." where "utopia" means "An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects." - that is, perfect software. Sorry if that wasn't clear - maybe I should have started…
But, to just focus on the arguments you had on Linux. Android is only a drop in the water in terms of Linux kernel usage. And we have every reason to believe they chose Linux based on its technical merits. It actually works pretty well for what an operating system needs to do. The top 500 supercomputers, worth billions (the fastest one alone cost 1 billion) don't pick Linux because it is cheaper. They pick it because it does what it needs to do, fairly decently. The NT kernel has a bag of decades old shit stinking up the place, so that's a no go. And MacOS forked Unix is not licensed to run on anything non-apple branded, not that that would matter, since there would be zero incentive to do so.
The argument presented that there is no open source software that is better than the commercial equivalent, is what I gave counter examples to. Which is demonstrably easy to argue against. Which I have done. You wouldn't want to use anything other than Linux for a supercomputer. AWS and GCP run their systems on Linux.
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We wouldn't have that problem if Gecko and Webkit went away and everything was Blink.
If that happened five years ago, everything would be Amp and PNaCl. The diverse ecosystem keeps the Chrome engineers in check.
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> Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way. That's the thing. I don't WANT a browser that's actually different. The web is a duopoly between Apple and Google, and everything else is a second-class citizen. The era of an "open" web came and went, passing us by as capitalism took over. Firefox offers no meaningful freedom when all the content it's suppose…
My biggest gripe with Chrome isn’t so much its tracking (though that’s not great either) but rather that for Google, efficiency is a ghost of an afterthought and all engineer time goes into pumping out shiny new web features to woo devs. Only OS maintainers seem to give two hoots about efficiency… Google and Mozilla see no issue with turning your laptop into a battery destroying space heater, and the impact of Google…