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[jacob]

I also don't get this notion that the Linux community should somehow always make sure that its core components work on other OSes and should not be "allowed"...

[jacob]

It's because this community is roughly divided into three groups. There are those who don't care and just want an OS to run the software they need. Then...

[jacob]

Canonical doesn't need to support anything. Canonical doesn't release or maintain Steam. Steam happens to be supported in Flatpak, which means that it's...

[jacob]

Ubuntu supports Flatpak perfectly well. People always seem to believe that flatpak and snap are competing like deb/rpm. They're not, both work happily...

[jacob]

In practice, does anyone actually do numerical calculations in Golang?...

[jacob]

Steam has a Flatpak package that presumably bundles everything it needs in terms of 32bit libs. Isn't that a simpler approach rather than keeping a dead...

[jacob]

It's not presuming users are idiots. Automating things, that is doing things for people, is the exact reason why computers exist at the first place....

[jacob]

Frankly I don't see the problem here. For each package available on Flathub you can scroll down to check the licence and if you are a FOSS purist, which...

[jacob]

It's not stealing, this is FOSS so they have every right to reuse whichever scripts they want. BUT: init scripts are notoriously not trivially portable...

[jacob]

Not mocking, but I would never use "cronjob" (let alone sendmail) and "elegant" in the same syntax:

1. Cron has no API. It's impossible

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[jacob]

So far Devuan has been spitting venom at Debian but at the same time they were just taking a free ride thanks to the fact that most Debian packages still...

[jacob]

IMHO the more relevant question is why should anyone in 2019 use vi? That it's a core part of the *nix history means nothing. It has no advantages or...

[jacob]

That's exactly right and it's the reason why Unix and Unix-like philosophies should be ditched once and for all....

[jacob]

I would say it stumbles on complex documents... created with MS Office. I've been using LO Writer to create very complex documents and not only it does...

[jacob]

Conspiracy theory much? There are other new languages but Rust is the only one that is a serious proposal at a new systems language (if we don't count...

[jacob]

Interesting, is this some new addition to the language?...

[jacob]

I don't see it that way. In my opinion the comparisons with C++ are valid for two reasons. Rust was created with the goal to provide a better alternative...

[jacob]

That's certainly true but all the same, unless I'm mistaken Tier 1 is the only one where it's guaranteed that the compiler actually generates correct...

[jacob]

To my knowledge no, and that's a problem. Even if you want to create Box<[usize; 1000]> it will allocate 1000 integers on the stack, copy it to...

[jacob]

Given that GNOME is the default desktop in both Ubuntu and Fedora, I very much doubt that its users are a "minority". No matter what KDE or...