laxis96

I'm genuinely wondering why everybody hates modern GNOME.

I have long been running Linux on headless systems but Windows on my daily, and only recently switched to dailying a Linux desktop. I started with Kubuntu LTS, it was easy to switch from Windows (shortcuts, UX) but it felt too "complicated" and distracting, not very good looking OOTB and had some graphical glitches here and there (w/ nvidia).

Now I'm on Fedora GNOME and I like it with its clean and modern design language. Very few extensions later and I can see myself being productive with it.

Mark Rober has been doing something like that for package thieves, with overengineered glitter and fart spray

To be fair, I recall some ex-Mozilla developer claiming that the Firefox codebase is indeed full of technical debt (over 20 years) and pretty hard to modernize

Imagine the horror of not having to sift through tens of ads just to read a single paragraph of text, and not being constantly nagged by full screen popup video ads...

Some sites block by user agent, you may just need to use an extension to spoof it and the site should work. Some browsers like Vivaldi do that by default. Though, this sucks, but it's better than the alternative.

Probably had to stay in the oven a bit longer...

Jokes apart, Zig is moving forward a lot which is why it's not 1.0 yet, but it doesn't mean you can't write safe and performant applications right now.

Zig is also a rather simple and straightforward language (like C) and has powerful compile-time code generation (like C macros, but without the awful preprocessor).

Because Windows does not have a good SSH implementation and PuTTY has always worked extremely well for me as a serial and SSH terminal (also, it starts up instantly and never crashed on me).

Are there any better alternatives?

Genuine question: what do you consider "trusted" code/apps? What difference is there between compiling from source and using the prebuilt official Docker image?

Please note that Docker and LXC (and LXD by extension) are essentially the same technology packaged differently, with different yet overlapping use cases; in fact, early Docker Engine was based on LXC before they switched to containerd.

Therefore I don't think there is anything that can run on LXC/LXD but not on Docker (and vice versa); it's more a matter of preference, whether you want a long-lived persistent virtual system (LXC/LXD) or ephemeral single-application containers with optional persistence (Docker).

Still, nothing stops you from using LXC/LXD for ephemeral containers and Docker for long-lived systems, but you'd be using the non-optimal tool.

I have yet to find an use case for WSL, when you can't interact with hardware devices and working with the filesystem has its (performance) limitations.

Docker in WSL2? Yeah sure, but I'd rather install a VM or connect to a remote Docker host.

MinGW/MSYS2 have been around far longer and have none of those issues... Then again, MSYS2 does not have a Linux kernel running under it but that shouldn't be a problem unless you want to run containers.

I would consider Reddit a bit more than a `tiny internet forum`, even thought many topic-specific subreddits are way less useful than an actual forum would be...

The problem with mods is that some of them behave badly enough and go on power trips banning people for their own enjoyment and making tantrums, thus giving a bad rep to the whole category, including those who are actually good people with sane principles.

I believe that might happen, but then I also believe it's the ISP's responsibility to ensure that its IP addresses are kept clean

I can totally relate to this, even after working professionally with Angular for 3+ years and generally with JavaScript for way more than that.

I recently set up a quick JS project from scratch that needed a few different npm packages and ended up spending more time understanding the >three< different ways I had to use to import the different packages (because the returned errors were utterly useless), than actually writing the business logic...

Talking about low power, I am currently running a headless HP laptop which I recovered from a friend. This thing sports an i3-5005U CPU (2GHz 2c/4t) and idles at 4W measured at the wall!

Well, it's not powerful by definition but it can easily handle file sharing and torrenting (for my library of Linux ISOs obviously) while staying powered on 24/7. The fan also turns off at idle so it's totally silent.

What's funny is that this machine is currently resting on top of my decommissioned home server (Xeon E5-2697v2, 64GB RDIMMs, Supermicro X9) which idled around 100W...