Yeah the DE is your desktop, launcher, window manager, setting manager etc. So Gnome, KDE Plasma, mutter, etc. It is what most people will notice.

The distro is basically a package manager and assembly of packages. So if you were to use ubuntu for instance, there is a default DE, but you’ll notice there are a bunch of “flavors” available. These are mostly different desktop environments and default applications, but all of the stuff in any of them are in the package lists and available to install regardless of flavor.

The main differences between distros are

• release cadence
  • fixed. They release a major update on a regular schedule and only backport bug fixes and security patches
  • rolling. One package set that every installation always updates to latest
• package management
  • some are able to manage packages purely by GUI and some you must use the command line (or if you can use GUI at some point you might have to fall back because it doesn’t have first class support)

Many distros you don’t even have to do anything but install packages to switch desktop environments, which are really what people are recommending when they’re trying to say what is similar to mac

Service (daemon) lifecycles are managed via the system services api.

Long running headless processes on windows generally still have an event loop and a window handle via which they process those messages.

You’re right about Linux but you’re wrong about windows. It is sent to the event loop in windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/window-notifications. It’s been a long time since it was my job, but you actually had to pass a certification that your application exited gracefully in response to these messages as part of the partner program back in the day.

The latency from using steam link or moonlight in my house drives me insane. I don’t know how anybody doesn’t hate cloud gaming solutions

You can and should make your point without denigrating labor movements.

Just FYI, using the term luddite derogatorily may not be as cool as you think it is. They were essentially an instance of organized labor flexing their power and not really “against technological advancement” like the term gets bandied about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

The problem with surveillance tech is that even if it was initially implemented with the best intentions by good people that aren’t seeking to abuse it, it can change hands.

That’s cute, but you’re complaining about people expressing their opinions on a platform where the entire point is to comment on posts…

People having seen the exact same joke that isn’t even good for a decade or more…

Followed the link. Two blurbs that are plenty to turn me off it:

Homebrew on-tap by default, same tools as your Mac

No thanks. I don’t need anything from Mac. I actually hate using Mac including the headaches that homebrew brings. I only use it for work and only because I hate it less than windows and Linux isn’t a choice.

For professionals and AI/ML engineers

So it’s catering to AI. No thanks.

“Distroless”

looks inside

Distro

The end of the world narrative pushers are actually the “AI safety” people that work at the big AI companies, and people like Huang himself that like to boost completely made up narratives like “the AI threatened us when we said we’d turn it off!” (Invariably if that happened it’s because they… prompted it to…)

I’ve never liked this joke. I guess it’s supposed to be that the husband does the literal action as described, but instead it’s just that they interpreted ambiguity opposite than expected? It just really doesn’t work very well :/

That is a major improvement but it doesn’t alleviate concerns of being trained on copyleft code, which I take seriously.

Its also generally stupid for any well respecting practitioner of a trade to just disregard a new tool because its new and different.

But it’s perfectly reasonable to disregard a tool for ethical reasons, of which there are many

Unexpected???

No, you’re an asshole because you’re grouping people with their oppressors. Cloaking yourself in a faux civility and saying all opinions are equal is not cool.

The fun thing about agnostics and atheists that exhibit “zealotry and hubris” is they’re almost always victims of extreme religious environments that got out and want to help others, only to have people like you group them with their previous oppressors.