TurboWafflz

It’s crazy how bad software compatibility on macos is. I used to assume it was about the same or slightly better than linux in that regard, but my attempts to help my friend play games on macos have almost entirely failed despite the fact that I have tons of experience playing games on linux since it’s always been my main os

I have lots of shortcuts bound to it except I never press it because I have the caps lock key mapped to the same keycode and that’s easier to press

Honestly it’s the most problem-free distribution I’ve used. I’ve used fedora, ubuntu, opensuse, and they all are way easier to break and way harder to fix. Once you get arch working it works really reliably and when it occasionally breaks it’s easy to fix. I used nixos for a while, and it is more reliable but it’s just a little too much effort.

You could make the world’s worst computer cluster, that could be fun. I think there are several open source tools for doing clustering

Except this is on the linux community so “third party applications” is every application

(Which you can disable, luckily. I still use the classic layout with the table of emails on top and the selected email below)

I think if we want something like that to be consistent everywhere we need to stop using Ctrl so much as a modifier for non-terminal tasks. It doesn’t solve everything, but using Alt or Super for copy and paste like Haiku and MacOS do is a big step in the right direction. It’s just hard to change an established custom without making the whole experience less consistent

If it was starbucks it would be like cramplestiltskin size or something not medium

There’s also a medium version that’s heavier than that but lighter than the default UI https://html.duckduckgo.com/

Honestly the biggest thing is just READ WHAT IS ON THE SCREEN. So many people just refuse to read when the computer is literally telling them exactly how to resolve a problem

Yeah krita definitely isn’t the right tool for bulk jobs. You might want to look into learning to use imagemagick’s command line tools, they’re pretty much the gold standard for bulk image tasks

I just never switched away, my first computer was my dad’s old 2001 Sharp laptop running like lubuntu 12.04. I play around with Haiku and various BSDs sometimes, but I always end up with some Linux distribution as my main OS. Right now it’s NixOS on my laptop and OpenSUSE on my desktop.

Ahh I guess if the target is being more IDE like then that kind of makes sense. I usually want barely anything but an editor with an LSP and auto formatter. I would be annoyed by the lack of BSD, Haiku, Illumos, etc support, but I guess if you don’t use those it doesn’t matter too much. Being closed source is still kind of a downer though for something like that, you would think they could adopt a scheme like some other paid software where you can pay for premade releases if you don’t want to compile it yourself

Paying for a text editor seems weird, especially one that’s closed source and only supports 3 platforms

If you want a GUI, Kate is my favorite. Otherwise Neovim

I still don’t get this I don’t think I’ve ever accidentally pressed it while playing a game, and I am someone who constantly presses every wrong key while typing

Interesting, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a laptop where it was soldered.

Also keep in mind that laptop wifi cards are usually easily replaceable, so if you end up with that being the only problem it’s usually cheap and easy to solve

The HP 49g+/39g+ and their descendants the 50g/39gs run the same operating systems as the older 49g/39g except most of it runs in an emulator so they could replace the old Saturn CPUs with ARM ones. And it still runs way faster than the native version on the older devices somehow.

Plus the entire operating system is written in Reverse Polish Lisp, one of the strangest languages I’ve ever seen. Very strange devices, but still leagues ahead of any calculator produced since (at least the 49/50, the 39 is very confusing)

Haiku is pretty unix-like, I wouldn’t count it