- Linux is a massive foot-gun in the hands of someone random, it is built with certain assumptions in mind that don't bode well with how companies want to ship you stuff, and how they envision to "keep you safe".
Of course if a company wants to ship you something linux-based is going to be brutally adultetred, or otherwise you might even be able to really own the thing and do whatever you want with it, which is very much the opposite companies want when they sell you something.
- Where's the incentive in any of that? Pour money in linux desktop development for what? (So we can have linux desktop... sooner?)
If there were any money to be made in linux desktop, it would have already happened imo, or otherwise the cost-opportunity is still to high.
If anything, more than a gold mine, looks like a gold sink to me
And don't get me wrong, been on arch for 7 years and i've long since ditched win. But I still don't think there's any meaningful incentives for companies to push for linux desktop.
- IMHO having a good desktop linux distro (or a proper desktop linux experience) doesn't have to correlate to a gold mine, and I'm not sure why the author conflates the two.
If the linux desktop space is advancing so slowly is precisely and because of the opposite: because desktop linux is made and maintained by a bunch of people who do it for free.
Alas, valve has done a pretty good job with proton and steamdeck which is helping the ecosystem. here's to hoping wayland and nvidia drivers 555 with explicit sync[1] we might get something decent next few months.
https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync...
- I can at least confirm that in my home european country japanese animated series did not start appearing until late 80s, early 90s, and by all means they were outliers and not _popular_ at very least til some heavy hitters came around the 90s.
I also don't know how applicable is making broad statements to europe as a whole in this specific regard. I feel cultural barriers have traditionally been pretty tall and what might be applicable to a country might not be applicable in the same timeframe to a neighboring one.
- I think there are levels of dedication, and parenthood expectations of what having a child is going to be like play a major role.
I'm going to be a father in a couple months and I'm observing most of my friends who did care about avoiding screens for their children give up partially on the idea because they've categorized it borderline impossible. I'm talking about parents who did deeply and seriously care about it prior having the kid.
Meanwhile I have two othwr friends who kinda got away with no screens. But i feel they do put a lot more effort for it.
So my take observing those samples: expectation management and be self-aware of how much sacrifice does it take.
If anyone has more adivice on this I'd appreciate too.
- Just gonna touch some wood on (1);
The fact that you need other metrics does not substract from OPs original point. It's still good and much better overall to handle a set of comprehensive metrics at infra level than to orchestrate every app.
About the coarsness, i think it's not really true. Proxies are freaking powerful and they do a lot of stuff at l7, too much in fact (look at envoy, jesus christ). That's one of the reasons why despite the insane complexity of service meshes, they are paramount for observability.
- The first thing that comes to my mind upon seeing something like this is how well will he handle aging and deterioration.
My extreme prejucide is he is indeed obsessed with his health. Human health sometimes is not about the bad things we get? but how well do we handle those curve balls.
- > deMicrosofted windows isn't a thing for a reason
About this part, I'm not sure I understand.
"deMicrosoft" was, and is a thing. See "windows 7 umattended edition" or "windows 10 reclaim scripts". Same with android and custom roms.
Corporate greed bloats up perfectly fine operating systems for as long as I can remember, and de-bloating them has and is still a thing.
Stock android is not so bad (2023); android has to cater to a broader ecosystem of vendors and hardware, hence the heterogenity and the overall not streamlined experience that comes with it, that much is certainly true.
I've been an msft employee for a couple of years and teams... Was ok. I prefer slack, but meetings, video, messaging, formatting, etc. was just fine in teams.