why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?
As someone else already mentioned, familarity. You published a repo of your foss project so other people can contribute to it and the more the merrier. Most people happen to be on github.
It's great those long time issues are solved, but after reading the article I can't help but wonder if the person vibe-coded it or something. I am a bit experienced on PHP too and know a tiny bit of C but still find C++ so incredibly daunting and complex I can't even imagine tackling such a serious bug on it all by myself
and china, they domesticated chinese food
As if I didn't had enough reasons to love Gentoo.
Damn physic laws removing the fun from physics
I think it's better for Linux to grow its base organically and the best advertisement for it is its own quality. But maybe that's just me.
"A Windows themed Linux distribution" can't really be "Windows themed" without some closed-source blobs and maybe even some backdoors sparkled here and there
Uhm, what?
Wayland has been in the works for more than a decade. Granted, there's some people having issues with it, with propietary hardware (nVidia) and not-so-common setups like two monitors, but it happens that they are the most noisy. For the rest of us it's been great, stable, and feels snappier than X.
If you want to talk about shoehorning stuff into Debian, talk about systemd.
Settings -> View -> Details -> Uncheck "expansible folders" (not sure how it's labelled in english). That column won't appear anymore
I suppose it's like asking a biologist what type of dishes would they do with a plant species they just discovered
The maintainer of X11Libre, Enrico Weigelt, is an anti-vaxer who already got scolded by Torvalds for writing bullshit on the kernel mailing list
Oh, so it's him. Dude got absolutely lucky Linus is on mild mode nowadays. On his prime the scold would've been of such epic proportions all the viruses he could have on his body would've leave him out of pure cringe.
There's an old mexican comedy show where the teacher asks a student how many centimeters are in a meter - she answers something like "29. And there's even room for more!"