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  1. rhabarba parent
    When LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.
  2. rhabarba parent
    Trademarked in USA, maintained by US citizens, mostly distributed by US companies who add US software like GNU and systemd.
  3. rhabarba parent
    Or Linux, being an American product.
  4. rhabarba parent
    Waiting for Adobe to rename Photoslop.
  5. rhabarba parent
    LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.
  6. rhabarba parent
    Especially not "Microsoft".
  7. rhabarba parent
    It is calming to see that in the end, WordPerfect Office outlived Microsoft Office.
  8. rhabarba parent
    I agree.

    CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.

  9. rhabarba parent
    Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!
  10. rhabarba parent
    NetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.
  11. rhabarba parent
    I upgraded my OpenBSD machines a few hours ago, and I'm still not entirely sure whether I notice any obvious TCP speed improvement. Then again, they're not really high-load computers. Maybe people with a higher throughput will be amazed.
  12. rhabarba parent
    FreeBSD is not really curious about being as portable as possible, I think. And it is somewhat larger, indeed, so it's not quite as easy to support more platforms.
  18. rhabarba parent
    I don't know whether operating systems need to be "cool". Is Windows, the market leader, "cool"?

    Or rather, I don't know whether those who think PewDiePie is "cool" have the same understanding of "cool" as computer nerds do.

  19. rhabarba parent
    There is not even one common "the Linux kernel".
  20. rhabarba parent
    Then again, using Linux has no obvious advantage anymore, as you don't "own" most software you're running anyway.
  21. rhabarba parent
    I genuinely wonder why it is considered "huge". Does it really matter how many % desktop usage one of the several dozens desktop operating systems has?
  22. rhabarba parent
    Role models for computer use in my generation: RMS, Bjarne Stroustrup, Doug McIlroy.

    Role models for computer use today: “PewDiePie”.

    This is why we can't have nice things.

  23. rhabarba parent
    Still looking forward to the year of the Plan 9 desktop. I'm helping!
  24. rhabarba parent
    While I appreciate the on-device approach for a couple of reasons, it is rather ironic that Mozilla needs to document that for them.
  25. rhabarba parent
    You had me at "Browser compatibility".
  26. rhabarba parent
    > Everything you create should be in git or similar.

    Everything you create should be on a machine you control, preferably in a house different from the one where you created it. Version control is optional (and Git probably overengineered for your one-man projects, but that's a different discussion).

  28. rhabarba parent
    > Today, one of the remaining appeals of Lisps (e.g., CL, Scheme) is that (aside perhaps from Clojure) they're not very employable, and so the communities and ecosystems are more old-school hardcore in sensibility.

    One of the reasons why I wrote 42links in Lisp is that it’s less likely to end up in a ChatGPT reply without any license hints.

  29. rhabarba parent
    Window Maker is still one of the most bearable desktops, even "with Wayland". I don't care about "integration", it is a desktop, not an office suite.

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