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PuppetSoup commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
skissane · 4 months ago
Our 12 year old recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu…

and now I’m constantly getting these complaints “I can’t get screen capture to work under Wayland… I switched from lightdm to sddm and I can’t work out how to switch back… I accidentally started an i3 session and I can’t work out how to log out of it.”

It makes me kind of miss Windows, in a way. It is good he’s learning so much. But the downside is Linux gives him lots more ways to break things and then ask me to fix them for him. And a lot of this stuff I then have to learn myself before I can fix it, because most of my Linux experience is with using it as a server OS, where desktop environments aren’t even installed

PuppetSoup · 4 months ago
That sounds amazing, well not for you but for your kid :) It has been very valuable for me that I messed around windows and linux as a kid
PuppetSoup commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
rafaelmn · 4 months ago
At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS, all the news about Windows is how they are making it worse for everyone.

And using it now and then it feels like that too. Windows 10 Mail app had integration with system calendar, you would get itsycal built into the OS. Windows 11 removed that and made the OS Mail app spam infested shit, and they expect me to pay a subscription for something that comes bundled with the OS I paid for.

Linux desktop is getting better but I still wouldn't daily drive it, so MacOS it is until Linux desktop gets to a more reliable state. I wouldn't be shocked it gets there - I believe Valve made relatively low investments and got a lot out of it, GPU vendors have an incentive to support it - for compute workloads and the gaming on Linux is becoming a thing. Also for office stuff the EU-US hostility could force EU to look for alternative software providers and move away from Microsoft.

Actually thinking about this just made me donate some $ to Gnome project.

PuppetSoup · 4 months ago
> Linux desktop is getting better but I still wouldn't daily drive it,

I'm genuinely interested what Linux is missing for you? I've been daily driving it for years and do all my work and gaming on it. Is it specific software or?

PuppetSoup commented on You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React   comfydeploy.com/blog/you-... · Posted by u/bennykokmusic
Alifatisk · 8 months ago
You know what the issue is? People are so focused on being able to scale their idea to billions of users before they even start building it. So someone today would start using Kubernetes for their website with 5 visitors. I've seen many students use Nextjs for websites that could easily be written with plain html + css, and some chart library.
PuppetSoup · 8 months ago
> I've seen many students use Nextjs for websites that could easily be written with plain html + css, and some chart library.

Maybe the students want to learn a popular framework in order to have job? That is exactly the reason I learned Nextjs and lo and behold, it proved to be useful for me and my employer..

u/PuppetSoup

KarmaCake day34March 23, 2023View Original