TimeSquirrel

Yeah, and NT was pretty much just a corporate and government thing throughout the 90s. It wasn’t until XP that home users got it on the desktop, and even then, the first user created automatically had all admin rights, because people were still used to the Win9x/DOS way of doing things. Separation of different accounts with different privilege levels wasn’t a widespread practice up until maybe Windows Vista.

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Oh yeah, there are advantages to each, despite the bickering and camps we put ourselves into. It all comes down to what abilities you’re gonna lose, and what you’re gonna gain when making the decision.

For me, I rarely game, and I do a lot of hobby electronics and programming, so Linux is a good fit. There’s so many cool open source programmer utilities out there.

For my wife, it fits not so much.

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That’s nice, but this ain’t MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.

Sorry but 20 years of “but this isn’t exactly like Winders11!!!one!” starts to grate on me. It’s a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they’ve completely forgotten about because it’s second nature.

I don’t WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.

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Keep reading:

The term “app” usually refers to applications for mobile devices such as phones.

I prefer https://i.imgur.com/E0QsRiQ.png

They are called “programs”, not “apps”. The word “app” was created for the iPhone and originally meant a “mini” slimmed down application meant for mobile devices, not a catch-all term for any user program running on a CPU.

/getoffmylawn

That’s okay, if you want a quick nostalgia trip, just open one of the many control panels. Use the one according to the Windows era you want.

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Okay? It was on a test stand. That’s what test stands are for. Isn’t stuff like this almost a weekly occurrence for them?

Uh-Oh!

Do ASCII-encoded UI elements count as “graphics”? I remember a few PC games using them in the 80s.

Good. It will finally put to rest the “not real communism” argument when a superintelligent AI finally figures out how to make it work without bloodshed or oppression and turns on all the tankies. I’ll be waiting with the popcorn.

I can’t imagine all the shit it’s picked up from 4chan’s /b/.

Back to the 80s/early 90s where the only people using computers were the ones that actually knew how to use computers? Hell yes, take me back.

Try the GitHub Copilot plugin if your IDE supports it. It can do things regular ChatGPT can’t, like be able to see your entire codebase and come up with suggestions that actually make sense and use all your own libraries.

Do not, however, use it to create complete programs from scratch. It doesn’t work out that way. It’s just an autocorrect on steroids.

Using just the straight web based version of ChatGPT sucks because it has no background context as to what you’re trying to do.

You need the live background noise to produce an inverted sound wave which will cancel it out. You don’t have that in a piece of data or software.

Full market saturation. They’re washing machines now. We shouldn’t be caring so hard about them anymore. We’re pretty much at the peak of mobile telephony the way we know it. Let’s come up with something totally new and focus on other tech. It’s like still being excited over mass-distributed electricity 40 years after its rollout.