I don’t follow either closely enough to make a rank list or anything.

In the same ballpark as some moments that Torvalds has apologized for. Milder than Torvald’s worst, but also unrepentant, as far as I’ve seen.

its lead dev is a bit socially awkward

Heh. You’re being gentle, and that’s good. But that’s maybe understating it a bit.

I’ve seen the GrapheneOS official Mastodon account being an antisocial uncollegial mess.

It’s okay to acknowledge that we wish some of our open source contributors were better community members.

Yeah. I’ve been trying to get the word out.

I’ve been screwing with Linux for decades, but somewhere along the line, Linux got easier and more reliable than Windows. I was as surprised as anyone. My last couple Linux installs were a cake walk.

I also like Linux more than Mac, but I’m a tinkerer at heart, and Mac’s (relative) lack of fiddly bits (customization options) has kept me from staying on it long.

most evidence suggests that piracy goes down in response to easily accessible and affordable market conditions.

The assholes know this too. We’re about due for another round of deshitifcation, just long enough to restore complacency.

I do not advocate for piracy. I advocate for archiving.

Exactly. And if the assholes make it illegal for librarians, well then yo ho ho.

Salutes

It means that pirates don’t have to wait for release dates, because Netflix didn’t secure their servers.

But it’s a good thing that Netflix serves DRM to my devices through my paid account. We wouldn’t want me watching it later without paying them again!

Good recommendation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb also has a bunch of useful writing on taking risks that applies very well to financial choices like investments and career choice.

It’s the vape pen of the soda world!

They have my permission to use this, heh.

An important and timely warning that will probably go unheeded.

Powerful people sucking at tech is one of the ways we get a different batch of powerful people who suck at tech.

That’s a great point. A nice Debian LTS release could be just the thing.

Yeah. I think you can’t go wrong with either Debian or Fedora with Gnome. I would pick whichever I’m most comfortable with. The grandparents will probably never notice.

I love to give Gnome crap for being a large install, but I’ve lost count of the number of machines that I’ve put Gnome on and had it just work. And I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve searched for a fancy command line way to fix an annoyance in Gnome, and discovered there’s just a simple toggle in settings for what I want.

Windows 11

Focus steal prevention is the feature I miss desperately when I’m forced to interact with a non-Linux window manager.

I feel the rage of Walter from the Big Kebowski each time an app randomly pulls focus because it fucking feels like it.

It’s just bassic civilized behavior to leave my cursor where I put it.

I miss the Sync software for my Palm Pilot. I also miss my Palm Pilot, anyway, as well, though.

Are you aware of the dedicated Surface Linux Kernel?

I haven’t encountered any Bluetooth issues on my Surface, but I also barely ever use Bluetooth, so I may have simply not noticed.

Lol. Well good guess.

I’m not a primary source or anything, of course. Your comment just matches something I heard once in office gossip.

Suoer-computing is a pain-in-the-ass, so my guess is some combination of SUSE picking up top talent that left other Linux vendors as IBM has been purchasing them, and SUSE just being willing to put in the extra work for the added brand recognition.

Yeah. Thankfully, Windows server cleaned up that stupidity starting around 2006 and finished in around 2018.

Which all sounds fine until we meditate on the history that basically all other server operating systems have had efficient remote administration solutions since before 1995 (reasonable solutions existed before SSH, even).

Windows was over 20 years late to adopt non-grapgical low latency (aka sane) options for remote administration.

I think it’s a big part of the reason Windows doesn’t appear much on this chart.

Heh. I don’t think that number was ever official, but I heard it as well.