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aceofcaveson Ask HN: What are some fundamental principles to make a product successful?

Use as many meaningless buzzwords as possible.

aceofcaveson GitHub removes IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT repository from Trending

It's there, but GitHub as a company has a habit of language policing projects they have nothing to do with under the threat of banning or removal.

Remember WebM for retards?

So yeah, not surprised that GitHub employees have free reign to do whatever their feels are telling them to do at any given time.

aceofcaveson GitHub removes IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT repository from Trending

In other news; water is wet.

This is GitHub after all, it's not like they're new to censorship.

aceofcaveson Ask HN: How did you transition from Mac to Linux?

Started with Windows, then Linux ever since I got out of school since time for gaming was no longer a thing.

I've got a mac mini when my gaming rig died a couple of years ago, tried to make OS X my main thing but it feels so damn slow in comparison to GNOME, which is surprising because GNOME ain't exactly lightweight these days. Basically opening finder takes anywhere up to a minute where-as nautilus is more or less instant.

Used to find image editing lacking, but Inkscape and GIMP are pretty decent replacements for Illustrator and Photoshop.

The only major pitfall I've ever encountered is NVIDIA Optimus (weird IGP/GPU hybrid thing NVIDIA had going on around when i3/i5 laptops were the new hotness), drivers for it were a bitch to the point where Linus publicly said fuck you to NVIDIA during a Q&A. Other than that driver support has actually been better on Linux than Windows in my experience.