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Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta 10 months ago

It is not about the time spent looking at the time, it is about being unable to ignore shiny stuff when you get out of fullscreen.

Window Activation 12 months ago

I just checked and assigning the shortcut in "System Settings>Keyboard>Shortcuts" will open Firefox and put it in focus.

GNU Octave 5.1.0 7 years ago

Both Octave and MATLAB have had a symbolic toolbox for ages, and can export to many vector graphics formats, from .ps to .svg.

Mathematica is way more targeted to the "general public" though. It's fairly obvious that MATLAB started its life as fronted to FORTRAN.

Using a laptop with a nVidia graphics card, where they have a monopoly, would also make you rage at them. For a year installing their drivers would prevent some laptops from even using text-mode because of improper PCI-E initialization, something that was only worked around on the latest kernel release.

They only care for Linux CUDA farms and it shows.

Power generators connected into a grid, pool their production and then consumers draw from that pool. A consumer can't claim "My electrons came only from "green" sources". Ones electrons came from the nearest sources. What a consumer can do, is pay a producer connected to the grid, to supply "green" energy matching the consumer's draw from the pool.

It's like balancing a checkbook. When you act as a producer, your windfarm puts 1MW into the pool. Logistically, you have to buy it back to claim you consume green power, otherwise you run on the grid's energy mix.

(This is broad strokes, and may vary depending on your location.)

Upstart not only came before systemd but is the init system of the still supported RHEL 6. I am not qualified to judge which one is better but let's agree on the facts.

As far as the marketing goes, it is a larger trend. See Fedora Workstation/Server, elementaryOS. In fact, on the CentOS homepage there is nary a mention of Linux.