- It is certainly not low hanging fruit in the development effort space, but they can utilise open source projects in ways that MS cannot due to licensing, and therefore have much more resources overall in terms of community dev contributions.
- > Let people opt-in to using their browsers to help crawl for the search engine index, like Brave does.
This is really cool.
I'd be happy with a re-branded SearX/SearXNG, with a paid cloud hosted instance from Mozilla that uses a shared base index plus your own crawled pages or optionally contribute your crawls back to the shared index.
- I'm thinking more at an SMB level, not necessarily for secure mail, PGP and the like.
IMAP + CalDev + CardDev sat on-top of cPanel is getting a bit long in the tooth for companies that want exchange-like mail solutions outside of the big two. Unfortunately MS and Google run the "spam" filters as well, so you really need an established company that they can't afford to irritate to enter the space - see Mozilla - to reliably force acceptance of enterprise mail outside the Duopoly they have.
Zoho is trying their best also in this space - not sure how successful they have been on the trusted email provider and integration front.
- Fully agree with this.
- Mozilla SSL Certs - for corporations that don't want Let's Encrypt
- Mozilla Mail - a reliable Exchange/Google Mail alternative (desperately needed imo)
- Thunderbird for iOS - why is this not a thing yet?
- Mozilla Search - metasearch that isn't based on Bing/DDG/Google
- Mozilla HTTPS DNS - although Cloudflare will probably always do this better
All seemingly low-hanging fruit with brand alignment.
- Budget sensitive client that didn't want to pay for xcp-ng tools needed in version 8, as well as the server needed a hardware upgrade anyway from SSDs to nVME drives so just ripped the bandaid off at the same time.
- I can't fathom why this is even possible, let alone acceptable. You could write an equally featured text chat client in a terminal (IRC style) - no video or file sharing of course - but do those things really need to consume the remaining 2.29 GB of RAM?
Surely video calls have a native capture method in Windows/macOS now where you can overlay the controls for fairly cheap resources, and file sharing only needs to consume RAM during the upload process.
What gives with these apps? Like seriously, is it the fact that they need to load a whole browser environment just to run 100mb of JS? If so, why bother shipping an app at all? Just encourage users to allow notifications in the browser for the site and be done with it. No apps to maintain, instant patching on refresh, where's the obvious downside I'm missing?
- Ex XCP-ng user here. The web management portal requires Xen Orchestra and needs to be installed as a seperate VM which can be irritating, with a seperate paid license. Proxmox has a web GUI natively on install which is super convenient and pretty much free for 90% of use cases.
- Just migrated from xcp-ng 7 to Proxmox 9.1 for a client this week.
Honestly the whole process was incredibly smooth, loving the web management, native ZFS. Wouldn't consider anything else as a type 1 hypervisor at this stage - and really unless I needed live VM migrations I can't see a future where I'd need anything else.
Managed to get rid of a few docker cloud VPS servers and my TrueNAS box at the same time.
I'd prefer if it was BSD based, but I'm just getting picky now.
- It would be perfectly fine as a daily - I use it for SQL Server on-prem infra that I also RDP to for SSMS 8 hours a day.
It’s clear to me it’s the best of the worst if you need to use Windows.
I daily macOS Sequoia - you don’t want my unfiltered thoughts on Tahoe.
- Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2024 is almost this, but not for consumer purchase.
They basically did all the work, and refuse to sell it.
- Taste is objective. It is only subjective among the tasteless.
The OS has a purpose to be efficient and pleasant - anything that interferes with either is not a matter of taste, but a matter of poor execution.
Sure we have preferences, but truly beautiful things are hard to consider they are only so due to a matter of preference, and not objectivity.
- Appreciate the response. I suppose the follow up is, why not make the library framework agnostic initially or work towards that, rather than have to maintain support for x number of frameworks into the future?
- I understand your point, and I might just be out of touch, but I don't know of any MSPs in the Australian market that support desktop Linux users. Even internal IT support teams I've come across only really deal with the Linux server environment.
Throwing GNOME/KDE/xkfc/mate/whatever flavour it is this month really starts to make things complicated for UX. I'm sure yes you could centralise it, mass deploy, have a stable config, etc, but these are low level things that when go wrong really interfere with the day-to-day of non-technical employees.
What do you do about drivers, obscure one-use PDF converters they want, Excel macros? The tools they are familiar with are lucky to have a macOS alternative these days, let alone a Linux build that is compatible with the distro they are on. Supporting most users is questions like - "where was the button that was there yesterday?", "why are my emails sorted backwards?", "whats this virus I have? (clicked allow notifications in Edge)".
Linux/BSD has incredible merit and I would love to see the duopoly in the desktop market broken up, but it requires a directed approach to fixing UX, a single opinionated distro that has enough traction to warrant developers to create turn-key apps and builds for it, and users to feel familiar with the interface without it changing for a long time. I don't see this happening due to the inherent communal aspect of Linux where everyone wants to make their mark and has their own opinions on design not just at the OS level but at the application level also.
- Linux has terrible UX, no cohesion in design and quite frankly I can't understand how it could possibly be considered a replacement for macOS.
Expecting business users to use a terminal to install apps (yes I know AppImage exists) is so far removed from reality it's not worth entertaining the "year of the Linux desktop" joke for anyone without at least a mildly technical background.
To clarify, I'm speaking about business users not the people we commonly interact with in the IT space - although in my market they are also just as siloed in their knowledge and while they may be great at DevOps or development, good luck getting them to do anything outside of drag an app from a Disk Image to the Applications folder (which will stay mounted for the next 8 months).
- Congratulations on the beta launch, an impressive product we will consider integrating.
As a relatively new developer, I'm curious why the dependancy on React?
Was there no way to get the UI you wanted without implementing a framework like React?
We are Svelte based, so it's frustrating for us to have to drag in React for libraries like this.
- Microsoft's holistic direction is so bad I have moved all of my on-prem Windows Server clients that will listen to Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024, and all desktop clients out of M365 to Office LTSC 2024.
This was after dragging many endpoint users by tooth and nail that just use Xero or web based apps to MacBook Airs (which are going down a similarly terrible direction post Tahoe).
Is there no saviour for modern software? I'm obviously technical but my adolescent quest for customisation and tinkering is behind me. I want software that works and keeps up with hardware, not degrades its margin of improvement.
- Cloudflare runs a high demand service, and the centralisation does deserve scrutiny. I think a good middle ground I’ll adopt is self hosting critical services and then when they have an outage redirect traffic to a Cloudflare outage banner.
- Without a personal opinion one way or the other, I would assume the gripe is with congesting the public network as opposed to the choice of public domain documentaries you downloaded.
- I don’t fully agree with the nested view argument. In our context (POS software) we use them heavily to have a single source of truth for a clean transaction view, joining common tables like product, category, etc and then using that as the backbone for all user reporting that might be more/less complex. Not doing this means that we need to accommodate for each where clause in each table on each report. For example eliminating voided lines, voided transactions, returned transactions, etc. Not having this means that a single logic change would need to update 20+ views/stored procs so for our case I think its valid to nest.
- Usually hosted on shared VPSs where IP reputation is decimated (wonder how this will be affected by pure IPv6 hosts)
- Patching is often manual and forgotten about (n = 1)
- Backups are often an afterthought