I interpreted their comment as "There are at least two tiers of things: things that are Microsoft Windows and those that aren't, and the tier that includes Microsoft Windows is not the most superior tier". I don't think that's hypocritical.
LemoineFairclough
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This page is disgustingly complicated and has an uncomfortable amount of motion on it. Could you share less nauseating links in the future?
AppImage has definitely made my life a lot easier in several cases!
How is it hypocritical to say that things that aren't Microsoft Windows are better than Microsoft Windows?
I think both macOS and Android are inherently superior to anything I've ever used that was created by Microsoft.
Multiple versions of macOS are UNIX® Certified Products according to the institution that publishes the POSIX standards: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3688.htm https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3673.htm
"Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel" so it is surely easier to liberate yourself by using Android than by using Microsoft Windows.
I can't say I share this experience as I spend a lot more than half my time using Linux watching documentaries on youtube in a web browser. If you are obsessed with personalization I could see this happening, but I happen to prefer using default (as in "possible to consistently re-apply") settings on most things.
Regardless, troubleshooting makes you better at resolving trouble that you didn't bring about on your own, and life is defined by unexpected troubles. It is better to be antifragile than happy!
I doubt bundling things together in some sort of pack would avoid every problem with python versions I could have. That doesn't prevent a given python version from being marked as "end-of-life" and no longer receiving security patches.
Most software is produced and maintained for use solely by the company that produced it, and probably by people who are not experts in using python, so hiding the complexity that python versions and dependency versions are coupled seems like a bad idea, especially when one wants to limit the number of versions of the same software that is installed (and therefore re-use executable files to save disk and CPU usage and avoid accidentally using the wrong version of a program).
I have not interacted with flatpak in a professional environment, so I doubt I have been directly harmed by it. However, reducing the importance of quickly upgrading software after new versions are released is probably harmful overall: performing an upgrade will usually make development easier (so making it harder for me to pitch to managers that an upgrade should be done is harmful to my morale), and incentivizing having multiple versions of the same program accessible on the same system makes surprising problems more likely.
The original source of this comic seems to be "xibang" / "seebangnow" based on https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/9k4jkw/damn_ducks/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/seebangnow/list?title_no=56163
I think it's more likely he'd look up your address on https://whitepages.com/ or https://spokeo.com/ and come to your house to explain why you should buy your computers from an FSF approved seller
Unfortunately I'd rather have not learned anything related to what you posted. Android is hostile to GPL licensed software and Microsoft Windows surely is too, and they may use copyrighted or patented technology in their construction, so if I learn about them and then create software their creators may be able to build a case against me that I'm harming them, and I don't want that to be easy.