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  • It sadly doesn’t quite work right on KDE. You can get close: you can show an application launcher, or a exposé-like window overview, or a pager, but you can’t show all of them at once in a way that’s easy to work with between like Gnome does.

    Heck, even Gnome regressed Gnome 40, as you don’t get the vertical desktop overview any more. At least there’s shell extensions that let me get Gnome 3’s behaviour back.

    It’s a real pity, because I like KDE, and definitely the KDE apps, more, but the Super-key overview is no hard to quit.







  • Yeah, XP was pretty good.

    I was a young sysadmin during this era, I don’t know if I agree with this sentiment. It got tolerable by the time of the last service pack, but it was a security nightmare otherwise and didn’t offer much over Win2k.

    That said, I’m not a Windows fan in general, but I’d class the following as the “good” ones:

    • NT 3.5 (user-mode GDI FTW!)
    • Phone 7.0 (this was probably what I’d call the Practically Perfect version of Windows. WP7 is just so good)
    • NT 3.1 gets an honourable mention
    • 8 (after WP7, this is the first version of Windows that was pretty much stable on day one. Say what you will about the UI, the core was the best Microsoft has ever one; ditto fir Server 2012)
    • 10 (8 but with refinement; I’m cautious putting it here because you can see the genesis of the decisions that gave us 11)
    • Vista (a lot of what people like about 7 really came from Vista, like the WDDM driver model and the improved security infrastructure; Vista, like NT, came out before hardware was commonly available that could run it)

    Anchoring the bottom

    • 98 & ME (IE integrated everywhere and the security nightmare it begat deserves a special place in hell)
    • 1.0 (you had to be there, but this thing made Atari TOS look sophisticated)
    • 95 pre-OSR2 (VxDs, DLLs and a login screen you could bypass with an escape key!)
    • NT4 (it wasn’t bad, per se, but I still resent how unstable it was versus 3.5)
    • CE and pre-5.0 Mobile (hey, guess what, replacing your battery wipes your device because we didn’t implement persistent storage!)
    • 11 (10 without most of the redeeming features, plus an Android launcher for a Start menu. Now with extra spyware!)

    A lot of people really like 7 and 2000, but I tend to think of those as polish releases of Vista and NT4. They’re Microsoft eventually fixing their mistakes, after having everyone drag on them for years.


  • psvrh@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy don't cell phones have BIOS?
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    4 months ago

    ARM doesn’t specify a standard firmware interface like x86 PCs do.

    I mean, they could, but ARM comes from a different era, where interoperability isn’t a requirement and devices are disposable instead of upgradeable.

    There no incentive, no IBM PC to be compatible with, not even an Apple, Macintosh, Conmodore Amiga or Atari ST to make peripherals for. ARM devices, even the rPi, are one-and-done.





  • Stable means different things in different contexts.

    Debian being stable is like RHEL being stable. You’re not jury talking about “doesn’t crash”, you’re talking about APIS, behaviours, features and such being assured not to change.

    That’s not necessarily a good thing for a general purpose desktop, but for an enterprise workstation or server, yes.

    So it’s not so much that Debian would replace Fedora, it’s the Debian would replace RHEL or CentOS. For a Fedora equivalent, there’s Ubuntu and the like.