I love Gnome. People love to hate it, but it’s workflow is SO good.

I think people just get annoyed that they can’t force it to be whatever they want it to be. Which is fine, that’s why other options exist!

But if you really go to the content-focused, workspace + keyboard shortcut flow Gnome is incredibly efficient, consistent, and stable.

Unpopular opinion #2: I love libadwaita and GTK4. Basically, I enjoy when devs are opinionated about things and build what they want to see in the world.

The adaptive part of libadwaita is really exciting for different form factors!

no need to be a dick, either

I think it’s worth acknowledging that we’re in a bubble here. The world outside does not reflect our opinions here in large part.

Hey, I think you aren’t really understanding my stance here. Please see comment https://lemdro.id/comment/22830764

Hey, you seem to think I actually like this situation - but I don’t.

I actually fully agree, but the reality is that the original post is not representing anything meaningful for moving people off of Matlab -> Octave. The tweet is over-dramatic and also written by AI.

I think it’s worth being critical instead of falling into a circle jerk here. Octave has a ways to go before it can kill Matlab. I’d love to see it happen!

yeah, I don’t think people really understand what I was saying.

I love Octave, I hate Matlab. but the price isn’t high enough to cause companies to shift in any meaningful way (especially in aerospace).

The twitter post feels like an AI written fever dream of Matlab dying (it isn’t x, it’s y).

Grad students have license provided by their university, research lab, or company. Doesn’t mean I like it…

agreed!

I think it’s a little insulting. When I was a student I got Matlab free through my university.

At a job, your employer pays for Matlab if they expect you to use it.

Frankly, I hate Matlab. But it is silly to act like the cost of an individual license is much of a factor, that cost is so little compared to your salary most companies do not care

about 2 years ago, why?

$500/yr is not that much.

people aren’t usually paying for these licenses, their employers are.

…you don’t need your networking gear to support this in any way

yeah good GUIs are really important for people who use a lot of programs lol.

I can’t remember everything at once, I’ve got better things to do

where is tails?

ChromeOS and Android both prove that you CAN provide an experience sans terminal.

I think anything with flatpaks or snap store will be in a pretty good spot

lol mine is like 76GB. have been running the same install for going on 9 years now

redhat provides enterprise support for Linux.

my very large tech company heavily uses Linux (and I personally have both a Linux laptop AND desktop).

it’s not the easy path, but when it happens it is so nice

a duress password typically wipes the device when entered.

so the data would be destroyed

give them the duress password gg

staying on an end of life unsupported programming language does not spark joy.

open source projects are (often) maintained by unpaid volunteers. unpaid volunteers doing something for the passion of it often don’t want to build with one hand tied behind their back

python 2 to 3 is actually an enormous change