I can't imagine what he means by that. All my Macs and Linux boxes (from a dozen of RPi-like ARM boxes, to laptops, to big Xeon server) and even the OpenIndiana and FreeBSD machines all work without much effort. A `yum update` here, a `pkg update` there and nothing ever breaks. It's actually boring compared to 2004 or so, but we end up getting used to actually working.
ncpa.cpl is the old network view, still very useful if i'm not in the cli :)
I've always had to live in both worlds, and they each have their fair share of pros and cons.
Mac isn't better in that department, though (when talking to Windows, at least).
I just remembered it after posting about digging for the network dialog and sure enough, network settings are right there, easily accessible.
Create a new folder and call it:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
The GUID is the important bit, you can replace 'GodMode' with anything, but it can't be blank.
shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
in the run dialog or address bar of an explorer window.
GodMode is just a nickname it got from some power users it seems.
Personally, though, I've always preferred Firefox's (and old Opera's) about:config instead. It's far more flexible than Chrome's flags.
I think Windows frowned upon lots of small files for performance and locking reasons - if some app decides to hold the file hostage, you'll end up needing to restart the system to be able to save a new version.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Introducing_Microsoft_W...
Docker with ffmpeg has solved most of those issues now since you can basically have a custom toolchain totally isolated from your core operating system. So, it would likely work knowing what I know now (or with modern tools).
With an AMD or something else, maybe it's more powerful, and works fine to most appearances. But the colors start to be a little funny when the uptime gets in to the months. Or a kernel update changes whether it thinks the unused S-video port is live. Or other weird <1% issues.
That's true. For desktop work, just about any GPU is overkill. Even the kind of scientific visualization we used expensive SGI boxes for not so long ago can easily be done with the cheapest Chromebook. I'd love to be able to play with OpenCL (where a beefier GPU would be useful) and see how far my boxes can actually go, but I never get around to find a good excuse.
Here's a bug I've found in Intel GPU drivers on Windows 10: https://stackoverflow.com/q/43399487/126995
AFAIK not fixed to this day.
Your distro's fault. Never had such a problem with Arch but I remember I had it with Ubuntu, albeit so long ago I can't say it's still a problem.
Also, I have found it easier to make reproducible environments everywhere in Unices. Nowadays, I just check out a git repo, run home-manager switch and all my software and configuration is there.
I’m not just talking about the CLI experience, since WSL doesn’t bring you anything new there. It’s Ubuntu (by default), or whichever other distro you choose.
When it comes to desktop applications (both in breadth & quality), video/GPU drivers, and (if it wasn’t clear already!) my preferences for a desktop experience, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian with XFCE, Fedora + KDE, etc - just don’t do it for me.
And that’s OK, because what I prefer probably doesn’t do it for you.
My setup for the past year and a half has only been:
* xorg server * i3 tiling wm * rofi application launcher
that's all one really needs.
I gave up on having my desktop looking like a futuristic sci-fi movie UI and that brought me a lot of peace (and free time). ;-)
It’s absurd to remove these things, and have the community re-implement core desktop feature as Javascript plugins without even a stable API between major versions.
To do that, I need to scale to 2x in the Gnome settings, then scale down using xrandr, and I have to manually position the X offset the second monitor.
I have actually also, unfortunately, spent a lot of time working with Windows Installer and Wix and that's a fine example if you ever get the experience to see eye gouging pain of the highest order.
I can't remember the last time I had a video card driver or other real hardware issue.
Come to think of it I can't really remember the last time i've really had to do any kind of system manangment other than package updates.
Oh...wait...I had to fuck around in grub a couple months ago when I lost power during a kernel update. That was about a half hour fix though....
I've lost power while windows was in the middle of updating before and it nearly killed my windows system. It was a few hours of booting into safe mode, figuring out what wasn't installed properly, fucking with the registry and windows update, manually comparing and replacing.dll and system files before finally getting it back up and running properly.