Captain Aggravated

And it is intentionally horrible. It is how the developers want it.

Lack of a user friendly art suite is a major barrier to Linux adoption.

I don’t think Inkscape has GIMP syndrome; it’s my understanding that Inkscape is just missing some features that make it a non-starter rather than a deliberately shit UI.

FreeCAD has GIMP syndrome which hopefully will soon be remedied.

I refer to that “the devs like it shitty” thing you get out of moderately old FOSS software “GIMP syndrome” because GIMP has it the loudest. A legitimately capable piece of software that you’re an idiot for using because good UX is considered a bug by the developers. Best to just let it die in obscurity and create something new from scratch than attempt to fork it.

You can also use cat to append some video file formats together, but honestly use ffmpeg.

An Epson XP-830. Full disclosure: When it was brand new it was a severe pain in the ass because it wasn’t supported by CUPS yet, I had to go out to Epson’s website and download a driver in .rpm fromat and install it with alien. Bought it a couple months before I abandoned Windows for Linux and had to make it work. After about a year CUPS suddenly knew what to do with it and it’s Just Worked™ ever since.

You have to click? I turn on my networked printer and every Linux machine on my network sets it up whether I wanted them to or not.

Does that refresh take place across the entire eye simultaneously or is each rod and/or cone doing its own thing?

I think it played a part.

I’ve done big forensic write-ups of it in the past and mapped it to the FAA’s accident chain model. It just so happened that he was using a distro with a weird forked DE (Pop!_OS) and just so happened that the version of the Steam package in the apt cache from when the install image was made was bugged in such a way that it would uninstall Xorg, and it just so happened that Pop!_OS didn’t run an apt update when launching their GUI app manager.

When Linus saw “failed to install Steam” he turned the petulant child up to 11 and started bitching about how you always have to use the terminal in Linux, and instead of googling the error message to find out “do an update and try again” he found a page that told him how to sudo apt install steam. Most instructions like that tell you do to an apt update before an apt install, so I don’t know if he either aggressively skimmed, deliberately ignored the update command because he’s used to how painful Windows updates are, or if he found a source that didn’t include it.

APT spat out a lot of stdout about all the packages it was going to remove, with a highlighted plaintext warning at the end which he failed to read or failed to heed.

Linus’ bad attitude was a major contributing factor to the incident.

Windows constantly says “this could harm your computer.” Just about any time you install software it does.

Remember when Linus Sebastian blew up Pop!_OS? As a Windows user, “This is likely to break your computer, do not do this unless you absolutely know what you’re doing. To proceed, type “Yes, do as I say.”” is something to walk right past.

There has to be a level of “competently trained user” in there we can strive for. I think we were getting there about the time I was in high school circa 2003, where every last one of us could format an MLA essay in MS Word and do an autosum in Excel.

Something that put me off of Microsoft products for a decade before I switched to Linux was their constant rearranging of the UI, requiring users to re-learn how to do basic tasks that worked just fine.

Yeah I’m pretty sure PC standing for Personal Computer was at one point a trademark of IBM. The IBM 5150 PC launched into a world full of different and incompatible microcomputers, even those that shared processors weren’t software compatible with each other. Hell, one of the things that sank Commodore was nearly none of their own machines were compatible with each other; most code written for a VIC20 wouldn’t run on a C64, etc.

It was IBM designing a machine from off the shelf components, buying an OS from Microsoft, and relying only on the copyright on the BIOS to keep the machine proprietary that led to their ubiquity even 40 years later. Compaq wrote a non-infringing BIOS and was able to put to market a machine compatible with the PC’s software library. And now, for the first time in microcomputer history, you had a de facto industry standard. Build an 8086 machine with ISA slots, write or license a BIOS that MS-DOS can talk to, and now you too can run that growing software library.

This was not a decision anyone made. The 8086 was quite literally slapped together because the engineers didn’t think it was going to be much of a big deal, IBM didn’t set out to create a standard that would stand for decades after they gave up all involvement with it. The modern x86 PC was metastasized as much as it was designed.

When it comes to line breaks on Lemmy, one is none, two is one.

One other fairly important detail in that 99% off the shelf parts 1% copyrighted BIOS: IBM contracted with Microsoft for the operating system, PC-DOS. And for some reason this deal was non-exclusive, so if someone else built compatible hardware, you could just buy a copy from Microsoft without the IBM branding on it and it’ll run. Which is exactly what Eagle, and then Compaq, did.

So I just learned this mere seconds ago messing around in the terminal because of this thread. You know toilet the big text program in the terminal that does kind of ascii art text? A major difference between it and figletis it can do colors, and there are two color presets guaranteed to be available. Try toilet "hello there" --gay

To turn on your new space heater, open a terminal and type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null

Playing with a Raspberry Pi inside my own home network with nothing important going on and I turned the Pi off when I’m done. Like why worry about it at that point?

Does Merkuro mean something in another language? Like Krita means Crayon in…Swedish? Norwegian? Scandahoovian? And for some reason they didn’t call it Krayon?

It should be Windows’s Subsystem for Linux.

A better acronym might be Windows’ Linux Subsystem.

Fairly long-term Mint veteran here: usually if I need software that’s more up to date than what’s in the standard repo, Flatpak will do.