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Linux system manufacturer System76 introduced a beautiful looking Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. But is Pop OS worth an install? Read the Pop OS review and find out yourself.
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F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:15AM (8 children)
When and why did the flat, anti-functional, user-hostile "Material Design" aesthetic take over?
[...]
GNOME [...] third-rate copy of OS X or Windows 10
I think you answered your own question.
The existence of GNOME is due to a scary quasi-proprietary license that Qt had back in the day.
That toolkit (used by KDE) and its sometimes-payware|sometimes-gratis-and-libre nature freaked out some developers and they avoided the whole deal.
GNOME started life as an all-FOSS-all-the-time alternative to KDE, and used GTK (the GIMP toolkit), which has always been gratis and libre.
The reason that everybody gets to make 1:1 comparisons and whine -now- is that, in 2008, Nokia bought Trolltech (Qt's owner) and dumped the payware part of the Qt license, removing the pall hanging over KDE.
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...and there's Red Hat[1] trying to follow in MSFT's footsteps in rejecting the Unix Philosophy [wikipedia.org] and adopting systemd.
In addition, there are Red Hat people on Debian's governing board who approved the same deviant move there.
[1] You should have noticed by now that Red Hat never uses the word "Linux" in their ads.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:54AM (3 children)
Same with google/android: "the world" says "nobody uses linux" until you point out that THEY are using it in their phones and tablets. Then they go "Huh?"
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @05:18AM
Ah, let's not also forget it also runs a fair percentage of their WLAN boxes and Firewalls, not to mention the networking gear running it.
Sad, but true..@work we have a boss who is a sphenisciphobe when it comes to OS related matters, he was directly responsible for the demise of our old Smoothwall firewall machines as they ran 'an OS that no-one supports' and replaced them with Draytek 'appliances' (which at that time ran...Linux and so does all the wireless gear we have waiting to be deployed). Our phone system? the old Cisco system was Linux based...the new one is (as far as I can tell) also Linux based.
I call him a sphenisciphobe, that's not totally fair as he hates all Unix or Unix-like OSes but it serves here as the most overt symptom of his asininity, needless to say he's also a big fan of Apple products, so whenever he pulls out his iWhatever (phone or tablet) the irony isn't lost on us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:57AM
and TVs
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:35PM
The sad part is that the DE people will not recognize that the reason the kernel is that much used, while the desktop lingers in the wastelands, is that said DE people and their compatriots at the plumbing layer, can't be assed to maintain stable APIs.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday January 16 2018, @05:15AM (2 children)
And then it took over GTK and perverted it beyond recognition.
GNOME also originally stood for GNU Object Model Environment, and it had a clear mission. After a little while, they decided they didn't care about the mission, or the name, and they dumped that.
Now it just means annoying little creep that needs to stay out of my garden.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:39PM (1 child)
Given that it was founded by Icaza, that then went on to unsuccessfully start a couple of companies based on cloning Microsoft software (the file explorer, Outlook) before finally getting aqui-hired by Microsoft over the .NET clone Mono, one may wonder.
Never mind that we have another code monkey running roughshod through the Linux ecosystem right now, Poettering...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:52PM
Yeah, I've had my suspicions about de Icaza and Poettering for years now. They're blunting Hanlon's Razor, because at this point the question "are they double agents or just completely up their own asses?" pans out the same way with either response...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:43PM
The payware part was gone long before Nokia grabbed Trolltech.