What other red flags do you have in mind?

Maybe with zRAM and a bit of swap it could run quite ok 🤷

Steam, my Steam library and Proton could disappear. But at least it will have supported a big traction in the ecosystem : Wine, DXVK, Lutris, Heroic Launcher, Bazzite, etc… are all open source projects (so they can’t really disappear) that have never moved as fast as they are today.

But the future is inevitable, isn’t it better to be less pessimistic and attempt to be prepared for it instead of just waiting?

13 years to be exact! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo

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I think that’s one thing about open source project : a lot of people work for free so they invest time on what they want and like. I don’t know if it’s what happens here, but I think in general it is not fair to ask for an optimal time management in open source communities.

It’s a stay-in-the-competition one. While I would love to see a ground breaking change soon, Mozilla surely can’t do that in every update.

Yeah, I don’t understand how you could make installing vim simpler than pacman -S vim? Is it about “-S” being less obvious than “install”?

So next LTS might have to be resilient to the 2038 bug (32 bit signed timestamps overflow). I wonder how many softwares are vulnerable 🤔

I think it was world of warcraft. As a kid I had a very bad computer, so windows (Vista I think ?) Gave me something like 15 fps while Linux+Wine gave me 20. It already felt like wizardry that I had better performance while needing a compatibility layer.

I have also some memories of discovering a new land of freedom. When i plugged a CD from the library, Ubuntu’s default music player had a popup “wanna install anti-DRM plugins & make a copy of those tracks?”

Which sucks btw, it is sometimes as bad as libreoffice at being compatible with office (desktop) documents… 🙄

I used a work laptop without swap for a while and it was very anoying. RAM intensive tasks were Rust IDE integration and compilation, data engineering, …

I’ve not been around windows users for a while, but last time I checked my mom was very lost when she had to start an app which hasn’t an icon on her desktop.

More generally I heard that in general having to rely on a tutorial means bad design, which seems reasonable.

Of course it’s hard to estimate how new user will react without proper testing, I’ll trust the Gnome team who proved to be good at their job 🙂