taladar

Oh, I thought you had some specific project in mind.

problem remains that there is no consistent design distro to distro

You might have had a point if you wrote that back in the days before phone UIs and Windows versions and websites all completely redesigning their UIs every 5 minutes but this is clearly nonsense at this point.

Can you imagine your grandparents trying to use Linux and then looking stuff up on their own and then doing something wrong because they don’t know what distro they’re on? Nightmare.

No, actually the actual nightmare is them using Windows and asking me about it on the phone and me having to talk them through mouse clicks in an unfamiliar GUI instead of just telling them which command to enter in the terminal like I would on a sane OS like Linux.

True but not quite for the reason you probably quoted it. The computer is merely a force multiplier for the human stupidity.

The real problem with the search bar is that Microsoft chose to make it language dependent, so you will need to know entirely different search terms to navigate e.g. a German Windows install's settings that way than an English one.

You are looking at this the wrong way. Nobody needs to compete with Windows and Mac, particularly volunteers do not want to be free support for people too lazy to learn the slightest thing for themselves and asking all the questions already covered prominently in the documentation again and again. Why would anyone optimize to get those people to Linux in their projects?

Not to mention that the terminal is just so much more efficient for a tutorial than that whole 20 screenshots with circles where to click nonsense. 20 screenshots you will have to redo when the GUI designer inevitably decides to do a "redesign" because they are bored and want to justify their existence.

An outdoor swimming pool?

cfw?

It feels like Microsoft is really going all in on this AI trend. Probably because they are well aware that they missed/were late to every major trend since the 90s (e.g. the Internet, music players, smart phones, gaming consoles,...) and they don't have that much to lose any more with Windows' inferiority becoming more and more apparent. So they are probably going for the high risk, high reward strategy where they will either lose the desktop OS market completely (in the likely case AI turns out to be just a regular hype cycle) or win big by being early (in the unlikely case that AI turns out to be much better than it looks like right now AND having expertise with this will help with better versions of this once they show up).

Still wouldn't be worth it. We can't expect Canadians to sacrifice themselves to the shitty US system, even the one without Trump.

Probably the same kind of ignorance of other countries' perspective that makes Americans think the political center is somewhere between the US Republicans and the US Democrats.

Mozilla stubbornly refuses to allow people to donate to Firefox specifically (as opposed to Firefox and their other random projects they pull out of the hat every other quarter or so to be used for any of them at their discretion). I would have set up a monthly donation to Firefox long ago if only they allowed donations just to Firefox. I have read many others complain about the same issue over the years.