I remember reading a post from an intern there about why they switched to using a browser for the start bar and windows settings UI: the code was just layers upon layers of friction requiring conversion from C++ to some intermediate format into another one and back. Making a simple change would take days if not weeks.
Ad now that they want to rewrite millions of lines of C++ into Rust using AI to rewrite all of winblows in Rust, it’s going to get much worse.
It’s called Microslop. Won’t you ever forget it
Someone recently wrote an article about how susceptible WSL was to hacks and how it was an excellent attack vector because windows didn’t check it. It was on one of the cyber security communities on Lemmy.
I dont have WSL but based on that article, I assume you can circumvent a lot of winblows crap in WSL. If you can run GUI apps all the better!
Just put an MCP on it and let the AI play the game at the slowest speed ever
Install windows so you can join in on the pleasure of wiping windows!
Why is this thing so popular? Do people just love faschtech?
My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.
Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.
I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL
Haven’t heard or read about it since it was kicked out of the kernel! Does it still exist?
Ho boy. Don’t ruin the good ol’ memory of the dude. Some things should be left untouched, just like the movies you watched as a child.
While I dislike the look and GNOME’s approach to things (“we know better what the user wants than they do” aka the crApple approach), I do appreciate that they do provide an alternative for crApple users. They also write a lot of libraries and software that are undeniably good and useful. No one is forced to use GNOME so I’m glad they exist.
Of course this blog post only has one view of the issues and I’m not going to spend a morning going down the rabbit hole to make an opinion on it. But if System76 really does have a problem with upstream for whatever reason, they are free to fork their stuff and cut all communication. Since they did write COSMIC, it looks like that’s their goal. Good on them. It may just decrease the drama and make GNOME developers’ lives easier.
If the EU dedicates itself to digital sovereignty before the US starts turning the wheel back away from self-sabotage, we might actually have a chance.
I upped my donation to them this year. They really do deserve it.
Why is that better?
Description lists?
Richtext? Like this or this ?
SVG handling? I’ve never seen a manpage with SVGs nor have I seen a manpage with images, much less image captions.
How should strings be terminated? Should they always be a tuple of length in bytes and data?
Groff is indeed such a crap format to write documentation in. It nearly reads like zalgo.
I can’t wait for the anti markdown people to come out of the woodwork though and complain that it’s “the progressivist agenda” to be more user friendly because devs aren’t users.
“If you can’t write Groff, maybe you dont deserve to read the output”
“The markdown evangelists are so annoying. You can’t just rewrite everything in markdown”
“When will this markdown craze stop??? I can’t hear it anymore!”
Identity politics entered the developer arena.
159 C CVEs released on the same day BTW.
Keep going. The faster the better. Imagine if billions went into Linux and opensource every year. It could be way better. The only thing I’m afraid of is companies starting to decide the future of linux. Everything would die in committee or they’d try and enshittify it to the max by adding proprietary kernel modules, filesystems and whatever else in order to get an upper hand.