rhabarba

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Tell me you have never used roff without saying you have never used roff.

If only there were more than two possible political opinions on the internet.

“Don’t use an LLM for the task” is generally advisable.

I'm amazed to see that Kermit is still alive and kicking. Thank you, team!

Sad news. Really.

I'm still glad that NetSurf exists.

They still don't unlock iPhones for the government. But please, by all means, enjoy your next U.S. ecosystem.

I wish it would support more VCSs.

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.

Trademarked in USA, maintained by US citizens, mostly distributed by US companies who add US software like GNU and systemd.

Or Linux, being an American product.

Waiting for Adobe to rename Photoslop.

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

Especially not "Microsoft".

It is calming to see that in the end, WordPerfect Office outlived Microsoft Office.

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.

Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!

NetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.

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.

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.

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.

There is not even one common "the Linux kernel".

Then again, using Linux has no obvious advantage anymore, as you don't "own" most software you're running anyway.

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?

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.

Still looking forward to the year of the Plan 9 desktop. I'm helping!

While I appreciate the on-device approach for a couple of reasons, it is rather ironic that Mozilla needs to document that for them.

You had me at "Browser compatibility".

> 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).

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284976