Sadly, I don’t see Gimp ever competing with Photoshop. It’s not necessarily a feature parity thing, nor is it a mind share thing. It’s as you’ve said - it’s not built by creatives to be the best possible tool for many types of design.

It’s truly a shame, because for years Adobe slept on different aspects of digital design, and there was a true opportunity to build a Linux-first tool that made things like Web Design so much simpler. It’s an unpopular opinion, but Linux window managers have always lacked creative input. There has always either been a design-by-commitee, or a design-by-engineer feel - and this is reflected in how poor Gimp and design tools are in the Linux space.

In reality, Linux could have the best photo editing and design-specific tooling, but sadly the tooling either lacks a creative touch, or lacks features that are truly needed to be competitive.

I use Windows. It does what it needs to do, and while I haven’t upgraded past 10, it’s not complained about much.

At home I switch between Fedora and Windows, but at work I use OSX because using Linux at work gets you a shitty laptop instead of a MBP. I work for a big tech company, with the Windows and Mac user communities being pretty much the same size. What I’ve noticed is that Windows is fairly tolerable, and often has few issues that don’t need IT intervention. The MacOS community, while often being more technical because it’s used by tech workers, has a lot more issues than any other. Major OS updates are events that take months of planning because it’s guaranteed that thousands of people will essentially brick their laptops trying to just do a standard upgrade. Everything seems to break all the time, which is mad when you consider that Apple is a trillion dollar company with one hardware line. Windows and Linux support many hardware lines.

Ultimately, you know what you’re getting with each choice. All I care about is that my OS does what it intends to do.

Isn’t he the personal assistant to Mr Burns?

In some ways, it would be great for WWE to get rid of the kiddy image that it holds.

A lot of people will say “it’ll just be like the attitude era again”, but you can’t replicate the 90’s. It was a product of its time that would just look incredibly cringeworthy in 2024, unless Limp Bizkit, “puppies”, and unlimited access to cocaine becomes popular again. I think that Triple H is smart enough to not go down this route, but we’ll see what “edge” looks like in what is still a very commercial product. Pair this with the rise of combat sports, and I can’t really see how WWE plays this.

The best description I’ve seen of pro wrestling today is “AEW knows that pro wrestling is basically a shounen anime, and acts as such. WWE acts like it’s a serious sport, and has to embrace the theatrics as family friendly”. I’m really interested in how a HHH backed WWE will play this, because it’ll have to look very different to what HHH popularised.

One of my first experiences with Linux at university was watching a classmate install Slackware, and then (for a laugh) dragging everything into the recycle bin.

They got a passing grade, because the lecturer saw their working installation, but they learned a valuable lesson in Linux that if you delete something, it’ll fucking delete it.

I stopped around 2016, so it’s been a while, but it’s something I still really miss. I remember .NET Core being a thing, but didn’t see enough movement in places looking to transition away, so I jumped over to a different stack.

Are they fanboys, though? I used to be one of those guys back when I used to help debug Windows permissions issues (it was always permissions issues) when getting .NET code to run on Windows 7. If anything, I think a lot of Windows people know that everything on Linux is far better supported and had more developer oversight, but ultimately these were the tools you had to use to use your language of choice.

If anything, it led to such a deep imposter syndrome that I ended up moving away from C#. While I could be just as productive in Windows as I was in Linux (even today), having to use “different” tools or run “special” commands to get something as basic as Ruby running on your OS constantly made you feel that you were running against the current.

Eh, this is somewhat true, and he’s dug into this a few times. Some is put up for TV, but he’s inclined to be annoyed at people that call themselves chefs, take people’s money, and serve them sub-par products. In a few shows, like the one with Angela Hartnett where she took over The Connaught, it showed that he’s still an angry dude, but that it was needed because he’s taking over the restaurant at one of London’s finest hotels. Michelin Star places seem to be the same boiling pot of bullying and anger to strive for the best possible quality.

Some chefs, like J Kenji Lopez Alt have called it and him out several times on it, because it’s a very damaging practice, and one that spreads throughout the industry from wannabe Ramsay’s that thinks intimidation is needed to make food.

I’m sure Ramsay is a lovely guy in person, but I would hate to work for him.

I think there is a great opportunity for AEW to take some of its (frankly) bloated roster, and to give opportunities in NJPW for stars that could really make a name for themselves. Jungle Boy is a prime example, and while I don’t buy that he’s done with AEW, I do think that a long-term loan to NJPW, or favoured deals for some of its stars could help keep the relationship good.

As an aside, I would be absolutely shocked if someone hasn’t either written a several-part book or movie/TV series about the life, rise, and fall of Vince McMahon.

TKD is in a whole heap of trouble, and needs to do some serious damage control here. Furthermore, they need to be sure that VKM isn’t going to just return in 12 months time once this has all blown over. The worry when the legal eyes are on WWE is that they’ve been no stranger to controversy over the years, and I imagine that if people were to truly investigate the wrongdoings in that company they’d find a list of dodgy shit that could probably implicate the entire McMahon family + Triple H.

Endeavour/TKD have bought two companies with chequered pasts, with owners known to do some fucking dodgy shit. They need to lock that shit down, cut anyone involved loose, and start fresh.

Have to agree with this. A lot of people gave Tony Khan shit for how he handled many of his press conferences in a PR manner, but ultimately it’s the only way you can do in this instance and trying to deflect just isn’t a good look. Cody handled it better than his boss.

My only real criticism of the women’s rumble is that it probably wasn’t the best place to debut Jade Cargill. Unless she’s improved significantly (which is entirely possible) she’s still likely a bit green to be carrying a rumble.

I’ve regrettably only heard of Podman in passing. At work we use docker containers with kubernetes, is this something we could easily transition to without friction?