I would agree a few years ago, but saying that it’s generally not usable for users is (in my opinion) wrong. If you’re only going to use a browser, and watch some videos, Linux is fine. If you’re a gamer and only use Steam, Linux is fine. Linux was also fine for me when installing Lutris to run other Windows games like Trackmania. For both those cases, I didn’t even have to touch the command line. If you’re a programmer, Linux is probably fine, because you have more knowledge on how command lines work anyways.

If you have any kind of advanced use case that doesn’t have a well established solution, and you have to research (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot), that’s probably not fine for a normal user. But more and more tools do have established solutions that work out of the box, so I’d say it’s getting more fine.

Whether Windows, Mac or Linux is better is a question of use case and other factors in my opinion. You only used Windows your whole life and don’t want to get used to a new thing? Then don’t. You love the Apple ecosystem and want to pay the premium? Do so. But I feel like outright saying Linux isn’t for regular use has become false in the recent years, as there are quite a few use cases by now that can use Linux without problems.

What’s the point of open sourcing this product?

Some people just like to have the possibility to change and completely own their stuff. Some people actually do change firmware or hardware components. I’d say it’s mostly for tech enthusiasts and tinkerers.

Ooh, I’m sorry Mr AlienHuman, it seems I did a whoosh. I think your friend also sent me the picture, might wanna check with them. Too be fair, your face is very memeable.

wtf? I created that meme myself.

I think they’re perfectly safe, but I don’t think we have a good way of storing the waste. Just leave some highly reactive stuff underground for a few hundred to thousand years? That sounds like a recipe for disaster at some point, that is a freakin long time

I don’t agree. While I don’t like ads, I think contextual ads are okay. As long as they’re non intrusive

If your function is longer than 10 statements, parts can almost always be extracted into smaller parts. If named correctly, this improves readability significantly

I never claimed that it’s original content :) I included the quote numbers for all the IRC posts I did, so people can look it up on bash.org . I also slightly edited the posts - adding some color coding and removing clutter info (if applicable) so it’s easier to read. I would’ve posted as text if that formatting was available.

Btw lithp-lang.org is still up for grabs

Don’t be salty because we’ve got a working democracy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sure, it isn’t perfect, but it’s not all about the money here. Being a politician on that level already pays quite nicely without being bought by a company or two. And voters have a lot of power over who gets into the EU parliament, so a lot of them really do represent the common folks.

Fortunately we have some and are getting more options with the framework laptops, and there are some other hardware manufacturers who have Linux compatibility as a priority

They are doing it to help consumers and protect the environment by forcing modularity and recyclable components.