After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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Yeah my only complaints with gnome are the lack of system tray and the fact that sticky keys don't work well
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You’re sounding like one of those people that says “ummm ackshully it’s GNU + Linux, not Linux”
No, I'm one of those people that understand that a DE is not the OS. A DE is a component one can install, but doesn't have to, in order to have a fully functional OS. Most certainly one does not require Kate in order to have a Linux OS installed. I have thousands of linux machines I manage that DON'T have Kate installed.
If you install a distro with KDE, you will have Kate. It’s an OS program.
Weird, because I only have Kate because I asked for it to get installed. It didn't come along for the ride when I installed KDE.
Pahahaha, that’s not what defines whether a program is an OS one or not. You can run paint on Linux if you wanted to. Based on your definition, Paint therefore isn’t part of the Windows app suite.
Paint comes on the MS Windows ISO (Or did), and with zero choice given, ever, MS Paint gets installed.
I installed MX Linux yesterday, and Kate was not installed.
I installed KDE on Freebsd a couple of weeks ago, and Kate was not installed.
Let’s get back on topic - do you think a normal user will hear “Kate” and think “ah, that must be the text editor!”, do you think they’ll hear “Dolphin” and think “ah, that must be a file manager of some kind!”?
I don't think any of that matters, tbh. Every user will have things to learn, once they switch to a new OS.
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The devs have the same kind of “we know better than you do” mentality towards design
It's not "we know better than you do"
It's "we have a vision for the desktop environment"
If you granted the user every little thing they wanted, you don't become a better piece of software. You end up middle of the road. There are limited resources and by keeping a limited scope and having a clear idea of what you want to accomplish- you can do what you aim to do really well. Instead of being mediocre at a lot of things.
My experience with Gnome- it does 95% of what I need a Desktop Environment to do (and certain things others don't do very well). Some features like
- Being able to push a button, start typing an application's name, and push enter to start that application
- Being able to push a button, and immediately see at a glance all of the windows I have open and quickly navigate to them
- Being able to easily set keyboard hotkeys so that I launch applications and can run my own custom scripts with the push of a button
Example- I have a script that I set to "Control+Num Pad 5" that opens up a Gnome folder search dialog. I navigate to a folder and click "Ok" and then 4 terminals open on my left monitor. Three small ones stacked on top of each other on the left, one big one on the right. Basically like a tiling window manager. This script has custom commands that run depending on the directory. If I open a react-native folder, it runs an Android emulator and neovim on the big terminal.
- Being able to easily run scripts on files and directories directly from Nautilus (Gnome's file manager)
Example- When I right click on a pdf file in Nautilus, I have custom scripts that I can run. One is "splitPdf" which creates a new folder called "split" and then creates n.pdf files where n is the number of pages. I also have "compressPdf" which will compress the pdf as much as possible and pops up a notification showing you how much. I have one for .xlsx and .doc files called "printPdf" that converts those to pdf files.
Those 4 things I think Gnome does better than any other default desktop environment I've ever used and I've used a lot over the course of my life. The remainder of the items (the 5% of stuff Gnome can't do) I have found custom plugins and in one scenario it took me a couple hours to write my own custom plugin.
MacOS does #2 and #4 well by default (although it's harder to write scripts with their clunky apple script language whereas with Gnome because you can just use regular old fish or bash scripts). With certain applications (like better-touch-tools or karabiner) you can get similar functionality as Gnome.
Windows with Autohotkey does #3 although you have to again use a clunky language (even clunkier than Apple script)
KDE can do #1 (search/launch apps), but feels slower and less streamlined than Gnome's immediate overview. It does #2 (window overview) and #3 (keyboard shortcuts), but buries these features under layers of settings and inconsistent menus. For #4 (file manager scripts), Dolphin technically supports actions, but configuring them requires wrestling with clunky .desktop files whereas on Gnome you just use fish or bash or python or javascript or whatever the hell you want and stick it in a directory.
In my opinion, Gnome is miles ahead of KDE and while it's obviously not as polished as MacOS, it has accomplished so much more with its limited resources than a megacorp like Apple does.
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I have always been partial to gedit, kate aint bad either.
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Running LLMs is not a feature that 99% of users need or want. Look at all the AI laptops flopping in sales. People don't care about RAM soldered to the motherboard to squeeze a milisencond on a feature they don't use. It's a money grubbing strategy, plain and simple.
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CheomeOS: Let Google silently start tracking your kids until they are old enough to sell all of that accumulated data.
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Holy fuck, I swear. This is exactly why I tell people that if they think Linux people are delusional, they know absolutely nothing about delusional because they've never seen a fucking *BSD luser try to argue his way out of a wet paper bag and fail.
So the idea that the overwhelming majority of every single place/person/entity that wants a free UNIX-like OS with a choice choosing Linux over *BSD is somehow not valid? Sure, buddy. *BSD had its time to rise up and win over Linux and it did not. It failed because of the reasons I said. It has zero advantages over Linux and so many disadvantages.
Of course, *BSD came first, but even back then, *BSD wasn't the primary system, UNIX and other systems like MINIX and the ones you mentioned were so much more popular than *BSD ever was. But when Linux arrived, *BSD began to die out. *BSD was a poor afterthought, even before Linux. There's a good reason the "*BSD is dying" meme appeared very early in internet culture even back when Slashdot was a huge thing, because it was absolutely based on the reality of the world.
Don't make me laugh about *BSD's "design decisions", ones that basically create a system that is much more difficult to work with because it has a much more simplistic base than the much more robust Linux ecosystem. The idea of separation of base system and packages has nothing to do with efficiency and more to do with a simple design option, something Linux can also do with atomic distributions, which while not quite equal to what *BSD does but has the same idea of separation of base OS and packages, have their certain advantages but aren't flexible enough to do more advanced, low-end system work, which gives Linux an advantage by far.
ESR's Cathedral and the Bazaar arguments have been repeatedly argued against as a good model for Free software development for a very long time, and Linux wins because of more flexible development done by more people but with a very strong and centralized point of vetting said code for most Linux software, which means it's not just "thousands of monkey developers" randomly throwing code at Linux. Your use of ESR as an argument against Linux shows how out of time you are with understanding Free software and how it all works to come together to create a great system.
No one wants to use non-free hardware support, troll.
If Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Meta were caught using GPL against its license, they'd be sued to oblivion and they know it. That's why they don't. If you think GPL is unenforceable, you are a fool. Meanwhile, ALL of those companies are, in fact, using the hell out of *BSD licensed code and you fucking know it. Your garbage development model helps those garbage companies exist.
Your argument is obsolete, and the clowns are all in the *BSD tent.
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Sounds like everyone is going to have to upgrade to Notepad ++ but honestly why are people even using Windows anymore and who even uses Notepad. I wanna see those numbers, like what... 5000 active users of notepad and they are just grandparents whose grandkids couldn't be bothered to install anything else. Seriously though Android, Mac OS, Steam OS, Android TV, Chrome OS, Debian, hell Ubuntu, Linux Mint so why are people making excuses to use Windows other than because it's on a work computer. Microsoft is lost in the sauce like hey guys let's make the operating system free and people pay for Notepad. You know what that sounds like, a car manufacturer giving away cars and charging to use the radio radio. When Windows became free the quality became identical to the price.
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I don't want to continue this useless conflict, your comments read as if chatgpt wrote them.
Just a few bits to help you:
UNIX and other systems like MINIX and the ones you mentioned were so much more popular than *BSD ever was.
UNIX obviously was more popular than specifically BSD UNIX, but you don't seem to understand that one is a subset of the other. You might want to read of "Unix wars" and how BSD UNIX became just BSD and then a bunch of *BSDs.
Minix was an education kit.
No one wants to use non-free hardware support, troll.
You are, in fact, using mostly non-free firmware, as in "binary blobs", for a lot of your hardware to function under Linux.
It has zero advantages over Linux and so many disadvantages.
You keep writing such sentences about four distinct operating systems, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Don’t make me laugh about *BSD’s “design decisions”, ones that basically create a system that is much more difficult to work with because it has a much more simplistic base than the much more robust Linux ecosystem.
This sentence means nothing.
If Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Meta were caught using GPL against its license, they’d be sued to oblivion and they know it. That’s why they don’t. If you think GPL is unenforceable, you are a fool.
I said it's enforceable and they are still using it just as "responsibly" and they do with BSD, MIT, ISC licenses, which is the point.
OK, done
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Oh good, now the angry, immature contrarian is accusing me of being a bot.
You also accusr me of misunderstanding badic shit like how BSD came from UNIX when I never said differently. If you had any reading comprehension, you'd see I said UNIX was still being used at that time OVER *BSD.
Similar fallacies and bullshit litter the rest of your immature little shit rant.
I can guarantee I wrote every word of what I say and despise the rise of GenAI and would never use it.
Can you say the same?
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Are people just going to keep reposting this misleading shit headline of a post until no one reads the article and just goes along with it?
Are the people constantly reposting this even reading the article and realizing how illiterate they look?
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"make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601"
This is a use of AI/LLM processing that I could agree with, if it could be trusted. Since it cannot, better to open in vim and regex replace, or process with Python.
That said, I'd rather store as epoch and display as ISO-8601 as the arithmetic is much less prone to error in epoch than any other format.
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The click bait will never die my friend.
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Notepad is useful for saving a simple piece of info to your hard drive somewhere, it's not a daily driver for code editing or anything. If I'm on the phone with some customer service rep and they give me some reference number, I'll pop open notepad to write it down and save it.
Seriously though, Android, macOS, Steam OS, Android TV, Chrome OS, Debian, heck, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Some of those are not competitors to Windows. Android, Android TV, Steam OS are installed on specialty devices.
macOS is not a good OS. I wouldn't consider it a better alternative to Windows. macOS often lags behind Windows in certain features such as tiling Windows. Apple is more hostile toward developers than Microsoft is and Apple ships their own versions of coreutils which are vastly inferior GNU coreutils and often totally out of date (Apple uses a build of bash from 2007 that was the default shell until the switch to zsh, and they STILL ship this bash binary today).
For any other Linux variant, the answer is the same as it has been for 20 years: normies don't install their own OS, and also only use their machines to browse the internet, so it makes no difference to them.
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MacOS
And you get the privilege of making that one-time $2000 purchase every 2-3 years when Apple eventually nerfs their hardware with bad firmware updates
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Did you purposely miss the first and last questions: Which laptop is the good value?
I never said people need to run LLMs. I said Apple dominates high-end laptops and wanted a good high-end to compare to the high-end Macbooks.
Instead of just complaining about Apple, can do what I asked? Best cheaper laptop alternative that checks the non-LLM boxes I mentioned:
If you want good cooling, good power (CPU and GPU), good screen, good keyboard, good battery, good WiFi, etc., the options get limited quickly.
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see I said UNIX was still being used at that time OVER *BSD.
You seem to think Unix is one system. You also seem to think *BSDs are not a branch of Unix.
You don't seem to learn.
How old are you and what's your intention in behaving this way? Just interested.
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I use Notepad on my work computer daily. I never save any documents, but it is handy for a quick copy/paste of info I need for a short period of time. We aren't allowed to install anything on the computers, so it's what is available.
I could live without it, but I do find it marginally useful, basically as digital "scrap paper".
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I think macs are more comparable when you compare OEM PC to OEM PC. I've specced out a few optiplexes for clients and all have been over a grand each. I wouldnt spend that much on my own computer but I know how to pick a good used computer or build my own if I so desire. The clients just want a computer they can forget about for a decade and yell at Dell when it breaks so Optiplex it is.
How much does a Mac Mini cost? $800 for a variant with 512GB of storage. Literally cheaper than a similar Dell Opitplex
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Can't wait to see in 5 years while all of the LLM nonsense quietly gets shuffled further and further to the back until it's gone like Cortana or Paint3D
Meanwhile has anyone noticed Microsoft has unhidden some genuinely useful older menus like Control Panel? Earlier in the windows 10 lifespan you couldn't search for control panel and had to instead use constantly changing shortcuts and tooltips to gain access to it, but now you can just search for Control Panel and pull it right up. I'm not thrilled that I have to dig for the network adapter properties still but I'll take the improvements I get
