Sometimes, I can’t believe that Lemmy is free.

Are you suggesting that Linux has better printer driver support than the system that 99% of that printers users use?

Easier than what, exactly? Windows always works out of the box for shit like printers. If it didn’t, 99% of their user base would be calling it defective.

OSX, on the other hand, is where I’ve had so, so many issues with printers.

I switched from .local to .honk and I’m never looking back.

I tried it, and while I was really excited about its proposition, it felt like at times any prior knowledge of Linux was a bit wasted. I also had some significant problems with needing to pin packages.

I don’t doubt that it’s a great option for many, if you’ve got the time to learn it. I’m finding myself in the position where I stick my flag to one distro and keep it there for as long as it doesn’t piss me off.

It has seamless integration with the language and framework, and to date (outside of TypeScript support in vscode) I’m yet to use anything that comes close to the level of control in debugging. IntelliJ shits the bed at even basic Gradle builds.

True. If I were to count text editors then vscode would probably be the winner. TypeScript support in vscode is just beautiful.

Eclipse is the Trump to IntelliJ’s Hillary.

IntelliJ is a blight on humanity.

I was so excited for Rider, especially since I do like some of the features of other JetBrains IDE’s, but I’ve found it just too unreliable when it comes to build support, and despite years of dominance in tooling from the ReSharper days VS intellisense is just much nicer. It’s very close though, and IMO Rider is nicer to use for C# than IntelliJ or PyCharm are for their respective languages.

Aside from being boomer tech, I’d say that both are text editors.

I’d consider vscode to still be a text editor, although I do really like using it for TypeScript. For me, VS still takes the crown because it’s just so good at debugging and evaluating C#. It’s hard for anyone to compete since Microsoft largely owns (yes, I know the .NET Foundation is responsible for .NET) the whole ecosystem.

Name an IDE that is better.

I’ll sit next to 1, and I’ll spend the entire flight talking to him about my .NET setup on Windows and how to date Visual Studio is still the best IDE available for any mainstream programming language.

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.