Well, and there’s also just lots of webpages implemented as an SPA – Single-Page Application.
Which you might be able to register in your browser as a PWA – Progressive Web App.
And which are just generally equally as interactive as an app, so good luck explaining the difference to folks who don’t care about implementation specifics…

In particular, frontend has to interact with humans, which is one hell of a messy API.

This is pretty much the biggest reason why I like fish. It automatically runs Ctrl+R as soon as you start typing and shows it as auto-completion suggestion.
You would not believe all the things past-me has run in their terminal, that I would never think to Ctrl+R. It’s like the AI stuff the whole IT world rages about, except past-me has real intelligence.

Yeah, I also thought it was a meme and used purely in derogatory form, until I learned that the term was actually coined by a co-founder of OpenAI…

But like, does that happen often for you, that you need a piece of code that’s gonna be thrown away?

I always feel like if code exists, it’s not gonna be thrown away, so it’s a good idea to make it maintainable. But I do probably have somewhat of a bias…

One thing to understand here is that it mostly depends on the “desktop environment”, which is basically the GUI of the system. (Imagine you could have the Windows XP GUI on a Windows 11 PC. Or the macOS GUI on a Windows 11 PC.)

Distros intended for desktop use will typically come with a certain desktop environment by default, so to some degree, you can talk about the distro, but yeah, there’s just gonna be a strong correlation with their default desktop environment.

To my knowledge, GNOME and (recent/Wayland versions of) KDE have good support. Most comments here imply these two desktop environments, so for example Ubuntu, Fedora and POP!_OS are typically GNOME, whereas Kubuntu and Nobara are typically KDE.

Some folks here also mention Linux Mint and LMDE working well, which use the Cinnamon desktop environment, so I guess that works well, too. Cinnamon is somewhat based on GNOME.
Well, and Elementary OS’s whole shtick is its Pantheon desktop environment, which is also based on GNOME.

So, basically, as Elementary’s Pantheon is its own thing, there’s no guarantee that it’ll work, but I would not be surprised.
As someone else already said, you can use a Linux Live USB to try it out before installing. You should be able to just follow along the installation instructions of Elementary OS and shortly before you actually install things, you should find yourself in Pantheon and can try it out.

I also have basically only my personal experience to go off of (from studying computer science), but I never had to plug hardware into my laptop. Printers were available over the network and the one time we worked with hardware, they had dedicated lab PCs there, which had the necessary software pre-installed.

From what I’ve heard on the internet, that’s quite a common theme. Lots of hardware equipment is ridiculously expensive, so you don’t go buying new equipment when accompanying software doesn’t work on newer operating systems anymore. Instead, you keep a PC around with that old OS and the software, specifically for operating that hardware.

I guess, kinda? In my head, a Verein is definitely more of a hobby/socialising thing, but I do have to say that “club” certainly doesn’t feel impactful enough. Like, Germany as a whole would fall apart, if you took the Vereine away.

For example, the Red Cross is an e.V. here. There’s e.V.s that support the local voluntary firefighters (although those are also organized by the municipality). We’ve got big-ass nature preservation e.V.s that do really important work in suing awful corporations. Local sports organizations and orchestras and whatnot are also organized as e.V.s. And perhaps the most relevant in this community is the KDE e.V., which helps organize/assist the wider KDE community.

So, yeah, some of them definitely do work that one might expect from a charity…

You have to think of them more like a club rather than a non-profit company. Their legal form “eingetragener Verein” does mean “registered club”.

Basically, here in Germany, you can register a non-profit club and then you get exempt from taxes. And folks who donate to your club can also get that donation exempt from their taxes.

Ah, damn. There’s folks out there who either like C or dislike Rust for whatever reason and they’ll always try to caveat what you say about this topic, so I made sure to only list facts. That’s why I got kind of angry when I thought you were still trying to caveat it, without spitting out whichever fact you thought was wrong. 🫠

Any particular part you didn’t understand or just too much tech mumbo jumbo in general?

For that purpose, I use a language with a decent compiler, but I know not everyone is as lucky…

I have a web music player that I’ve developed, and while it was never really intended to be used by others, I thought I had generally followed accessibility best practices. After using it for about two years, I realized that I never even implemented keyboard shortcuts. 🫠

Which is to say, one shouldn’t assume devs to know what they’re doing. At some point, I’m also just a user and I use software like everyone else does, meaning I pick out a path that works for me and then I hardly look left and right from there.
Features not being tested when you don’t use them yourself, that happens with any feature. But it’s much worse for UI features, because those are difficult to automate tests for. And accessibility is in an even worse spot, because it necessarily opens up a separate path, which is going to be invisible to me as a user, so it gets covered by neither automated tests nor by me just using the software.

I have to go out of my way to test accessibility, which means I have to be aware that a change I’m making might introduce a regression. That’s genuinely how lots of amateur developers work, which is probably the best explanation why accessibility support is often so amateur-ish…

Seems like someone might’ve seen your post: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/114483397979979965

🙂

I don’t think that was entirely serious…

I think the main reason why Word is losing mindshare, is because it was designed for paper. The whole formatting system makes the assumption that there’s a fixed width and height into which your text and images fit. In reality, a phone screen is a lot narrower and a widescreen monitor a lot wider.

Markdown never made these assumptions. For the most part simply because plain text reflows to fill whatever space you give it. But there’s no way to position an image either, I imagine mostly for simplicity’s sake. It can look goofy at times, but it never looks broken.
That’s why I can write this comment on my phone and someone else can look at it on desktop and it’s perfectly readable in both scenarios.

Seems like it’s Apache-2.0, but original sudo is under ISC license, which is more permissive as far as I’m aware. Although Apache-2.0 is very much still considered “permissive”, too.

A bunch of their touchscreen implementation work is Wayland-only, because it would’ve been a lot of work to retrofit it on X11. It’s well possible that the GNOME devs invested more time into X11.

Hmm, Dolphin takes about 0.5 seconds on my laptop. Might be that worth debugging on your system, even if it is some bug that your specific system triggers.

Yeah, good question. I imagine the screenshotting itself is largely negligible, although obviously not free either. I don’t know when the LLM gets to do its job. Theoretically, it could be delayed until some point where there’s not much going on on your PC.

At some point, Microsoft wanted to roll out these AI features only on PCs which have an NPU, which is basically an additional CPU with a different architecture optimized for pattern recognition and such. I don’t know, if they still hold onto that requirement, but it would mean that it wouldn’t hog your CPU at least.

They have been somewhat desperate to roll out Recall, because it was the only semi-useful out of a handful of features that they came up with to somehow integrate AI into Windows. So, that’s why I’m never quite sure, what requirements they’re still holding onto.

I’m not aware of them uploading the screenshotted data, not for now anyways.