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Post by antipaul »

rodgerd wrote: post #408
zanny wrote: post #215

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If upper management wants culture to change they will take the action necessary to change it. The last people to be powerless to inflict change on a corporation are the executives running said business.

You should do some reading about the idea of the "frozen middle", which is pretty much what's being described as the problem. It's as resistant to edicts from the top as ground-up initiatives from the bottom.

Thanks for pointing out the proper term for this disease!

Re: Broken

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Post by Mijka »

PeterStuer wrote: post #448
dingus wrote: post #272

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It's frustrating because it's the "least worst" option. I use MacOS because it has a thoughtful, consistent, coherent, beautiful user interface and desktop environment. The things I use all day are basically a web browser, mail client, code editor, and terminal. I can do actual work on any BSD really, there is no proprietary app that causes lock-in, I don't use iCloud or any of their services. All I want is their des…

On a similar note, I would pay to have the Windows 7 GUI on the Windows 10 core. The GUI/UWA design direction that started with Windows 8 to accommodate phones and tablets was a step backwards for the desktop.

You can search for Classic Shell, it will add you a panel of features to make Win/Start button menu more 7-like.

Re: Broken

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Post by hrktb »

saghm wrote: post #428
hrktb wrote: post #361

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At my last job we had people very happy with linux, with the following caveats: - they didn’t care about moving it around half a day and keeping decent battery life, for most of them it was effectively a desktop. - they didn’t care about any CJK support. None of them would be bitching about chinese fonts on japanese pages or worse IME. - they didn’t need any peripherals outside of screens, keyboards and mices. We had…

> - they didn’t need any peripherals outside of screens, keyboards and mices. We had to use a usb dongle to project into videoconf room at a client, I have no hope it would have worked on linux. You can actually buy Linux laptops with not just USB-C, but also USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet ports, etc. As someone with a Linux laptop who has never run into a peripheral issue and has coworkers with peripheral issues with their M…

Presence of ports doesn’t mean compatibility though.

I have cheap USB-C - ethernet dongle I bought on amazon that works on my mac and windows.

Is the chipset supported on linux ? who knows, but probably ?

Now my USB-C to HDMI dongle ? hmmm

https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/8smhzy/so_hdmi_o...

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

K0SM0S wrote: post #389
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #353

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I hear you about the community of Linux users. I'd rather have 100 bugs that I could fix in principle than 1 bug that I just have to deal with because some company thinks it's a feature. And I'd rather be part of thousands of engaged tinkerer types interested in improving the support community than be part of millions that would rather convince me that their expensive hardware is proportionally better instead of actu…

“Lately though, I have noticed that we Linux types are insufferable in our own ways...” Indeed, but this is the (sour) price of 'victory' too: it means Linux is going mainstream now. Hence, it's becoming more 'popular' with all that entails... Linux is best 'lived' in professional circles nowadays, imho: specific blogs, forums and channels with solution-driven people. I find myself more and more attracted to the RHEL…

Eh. I think Linux is sufficiently fragmented (in this case it's a good thing) that there will always be somewhere to hide if dealing with the ups and downs of the masses isn't your thing.

I like helping people, so if the future holds more software today breaks transparently, then that's more people I'll be able to help.

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Post by Ballas »

dTal wrote: post #355
arboghast wrote: post #30

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So was I until I switch to a 4k monitor and realize that there's no real, stable, functional fractional scaling on Linux, even less so on XFCE, unfortunately.

Protip: ignore "scaling". Step 1: put 'xrandr --dpi ' in .xinitrc Step 2: Use QT applications (Plasma is a fantastic QT desktop) Step 3: Enjoy your reasonably sized everything. "Scaling" is a broken concept to work around applications assuming 96 DPI (which is considered scale=1). You don't need it if you use programs that actually respect your real DPI. Unfortunately X11 doesn't properly compute DPI settings, even t…

Thank you. I struggle to understand people that claim linux does not do hidpi.

Re: Broken

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Post by equasar »

megaremote wrote: post #368
chapati23 wrote: post #302

Apple fanboy and software developer here. Also disappointed with the Catalina release. Had do an NV RAM reset, boot into safe mode, talk to Apple support to solve iCloud issues, and also click away dozens of privacy notifications. But I still really don’t consider windows or Linux as legitimate alternatives because of the ecosystem log in. Yes, macOS has its downsides. But what keeps me from even thinking about Linux…

I don't understand why people update straight away. Leave it a few weeks/months. Especially as a developer.

Early adopters are the reason bugs are reported :)

Re: Broken

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Post by jonahss »

00N8 wrote: post #424
snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

thank you. this really validates my decision to work as a backend Python engineer at a well-established startup.

What is a "well-established startup"?

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Post by anandsubra »

bb88 wrote: post #429
JabavuAdams wrote: post #407

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Maybe they want to get stuff done, other than puttering around in the tooling. It's a nice option to have, but would be ruinous to productivity. Also, design by committee rarely produces good UI. You can patch little UI bugs, but if you really want to holistically improve the UI it's a huge undertaking. Just because you're developer, doesn't mean you want to hack on every tool you use. Software has gotten way too big…

> Maybe they want to get stuff done, other than puttering around in the tooling. You mean like that crufty thing called homebrew? Or the default versions of software shipped are out of date by maybe a long, long time? https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/393oqv/why_is_the_ver...

> You mean like that crufty thing called homebrew?

What kind of problems have you faced with Homebrew? Can you please elaborate?

I use Homebrew all the time and it just works for me out of the box without any issues. I never had to edit configuration files or customize anything to make it do the right thing. It just works.

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Post by IggleSniggle »

hinkley wrote: post #275
rayiner wrote: post #232

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Things are worse than ever before. Mac OS stability has taken a bit, but it’s not like Windows machines have gotten better. Windows 10 is still a total clusterfuck when it comes to switching between a high dpi internal monitor and an external monitor. The other day my X1 Carbon started randomly powering down (but not hard looking, controlled shutdown, even installing updates). It rebooted four different times in one…

Ives was sort of a protege to Steve, but he's backing away now. I don't really know who if anyone can step up to fill this vacuum. I keep hoping to hear about some 30-year-old up-and-comer running a company with flawless hardware, but it keeps not happening.

Honestly this is the real reason I’m excited about System76...I don’t really know them or their products, but they have a coherent “passion of computing story,” and PopOS looks pretty. I have no idea if it’s just marketing. I’m just hoping that it’s good, that they’re legit, and that they will do well.

Re: Broken

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Post by saagarjha »

newacctwhodis wrote: post #265
snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

I’m on an internal infra team, and even tho we’re supposed to be making tooling for the rest of the company, it’s just as much of a clusterf *. I’ve been interviewing with other teams, but with this disaster of a release and us demonstrating that our corporate values are just empty words in the face of opposition from China, it’s likely time for me to make my exit. The overt sexism that I’ve been witness to in iCloud…

> The overt sexism that I’ve been witness to in iCloud management certainly doesn’t help either.

Yikes! Is this something you could share the nature of?

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