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By then it will be too late
I highly doubt corporate interests could eliminate linux. It just will be very difficult to use though no doubt.
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Every year Stallman seems less crazy.
I don't think Stallman's crazy, he's just passionate about his beliefs, and people whose careers depend on not acknowledging the truth in what he has to say like to dismiss him.
For infrastructure parts, it makes sense to be even permissive open source. For something in applications level, it would be nice to make money from it by charging corporations using it, while still being freely available for students and hobbyists. This could have combined best of open source and commercial software.
Stallman's belief is that everything is either good or bad, and there is nothing in between. He is write about consumerization of computing devices though.
So many comments in here, but I haven't seen a single one mentioning a simple solution: Vote with your feet. For years now, I've seen a large portion of the HN crowd praising Apple for its (alleged) respect of privacy and cursing at Microsoft for Windows "calling home" all the time. Now that this has happened, the only comments I see are "heads should roll", and "we must complain and be heard by high-level execs", bu…
No there are not good alternatives. Linux only makes sense as a desktop operating system if your top priority is telling people online that you use Linux as your desktop operating system.
For other things? Maybe. Some nice GUI applicatipns are, while in theory be run on Windows through cygwin, work well on Linux as well.
And some people just like performance / look-and-feel. Windows is often sluggish, while most Non-GNOME IDEs are pretty fast on usual hardware.
Then there is updates problem. I have had Windows downloading updates even if network was marked as metered in past.Some LTS distro is often better. Unless you use Fedora or Arch, updates should be minimum.
I don't want to imply Linux desktop is mature enough for all people. Just reminded there are valid reasons tech savvy people prefer it.
As they say, nothing is black and white.
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Over the generations, I have had three Macbooks, four Vaios, a ThinkPad, a HP, multiple ASUS and Huawei. Most of the devices I have killed by travel: dust infiltration, vibrated the BGA chips off the boards by motorbike vibrations.. My requirements have all been fulfilled with the Huawei MateBook X Pro. You could say it's heavily inspired by the MacBook. Aluminum case. Chiclet keyboard with decent travel. 2000x3000 d…
But then you have to buy a Huawei ... Not the best idea security and privacy wise.
In any case, everyone has their own level of comfort, and that's important.
One of the «romantic» aspects of buying an Apple back in the day was that people that «knew» was buying them. Musicians, designers programmers must had one. It was stable and just enpowered you to do your job. I wonder if Apple has underestimated how important is having the «tech» guys on their side
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> The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. The other thing that really can't be discounted here is that a lot of the HN crowd are likely the default go-to people in their circle of family and friends for this sort of stuff, and in many cases they may also have major purchasing influence and technical decision making power in their respective businesses. Turning off one of them may be inconsequ…
God the self importance of this community. The world can live without the 1000 people here.
The impact is just different and sometimes causes big issues if ignored
Is MacOS sending these hashes to check whether they are revoked? That sounds like an insane excuse. Are there really so many revoked hashes that it is not feasible to mirror the database to every device for offline querying?
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Dell XPS have an option for a fantastic 4K screen. After calibration it's better than the Retina screen on my 2013 MBP.
I have the 4K version. You can’t use it, you have to downscale to 1440p because you get lag at 4K. They released a 4K laptop that isn’t powerful enough to run at 4K.
Laptops and gaming is a terrible combination because of the thermals.