Two of the top answers here are missing from that list and, to be frank, that list does not really contain any useful information.
For example, where do I see on that list which clients can display images?
The "tooling" argument is kind of backwards when we're in the kernel.
The package manager is not allowed to be used.
Even the standard library is not allowed to be used.
Writing code free of the standard library is kind of new in the Rust world and getting compiler support for it has been one of the major efforts to get Rust into the kernel.
Needless to say tools around no-stdlib isn't as robust as in the user world.
Yeah it's easy to forget that Steam is good only because we have an extraordinarily principled person overseeing it.
If something ever happens to Gaben or he loses control of it, it's going to turn into the flamiest garbage dump of shit you've ever seen.
Monopolies are almost always bad.
No, that would be "too egotistical" (in Linus' own words).
But he can have his friend who runs an FTP server completely ignore his wishes to have it named "Freax" and name the directory "linux" instead.
Unfortunately toner gives you cancer.
(If anyone sits close to a laser printer, know that Ultra-Fine Particle levels fall back to background levels within 1-2 minutes after printing.
Maybe take an extra-long poop when printing).
For someone who doesn't print very often, probably the cancer risk is not very large, though.
I don't think you'd want that website.
Whisper is fairly efficient (even an old GTX can do pretty well at 4x-8x real-time speed), but a website like that would still require pretty expensive cloud GPUs.
It's really not possible to imagine that a website like that would not be data mining you and selling all your audio to advertisers to pay off investors.
Better to buy a GPU and do it yourself.
(Good news: it takes like 30 seconds to install)
Easier compared to what?
Easier compared to sysvinit, of course.
Easier compared to all the other alternatives?
Six of one, half a dozen of the other, on balance, I would say.
But SystemD has inertia behind it now.
If you run into problems, there are probably 1e10 web pages out there that will help you fix it.
That's why Debian solidified on SystemD: not because it's any better than any of the others, but because it's the same as everybody else.
I was with you until the last paragraph.
Just about every init system is different from historical init systems.
Do you really think OpenRC or runit or any of the other init systems people are using have any similarity to SysV init?
I think you're attacking a strawman in the last paragraph.
(Edit: Except Slackware users.
Slackware still does init the way it's traditionally been done, but I can't think of anyone else who does)
(Sidenote: This isn't really a fair fight for Firefox since it's my daily driver, with extensions installed and a bunch of stuff cached.
I'm guessing even a fresh install wouldn't get below 300MiB, though)
Interestingly, someone who hates systemd would have written exactly the same blog with exactly the same reasons. "Systemd is incredibly versatile and most people, including myself, are unaware of its full potential" could very well be verbatim the slogan of the anti-systemd faction.
Whether Musk receives public ridicule has absolutely zero impact on Musk, and a huge impact on the rest of us.
It ruins the community to obsess over someone for no reason.
Cool that someone put the pictures together.
I knew they were named after Toy Story characters, but as someone who's only watched the movie once or twice, I didn't know all the minor characters, and never bothered to look them up.
Anne Frank advertising baby clothes before discussing the horrors of the Holocaust
Wow, that is amazingly inhumane.
My first thought is they're necessarily making characters who aren't people.
A person who has lived through the Holocaust just cannot cheerfully peddle baby clothes.
I don't mean that it's physically not possible because she's dead: I mean in terms of the human psyche, a person just flat-out psychologically could not do that.
A young boy who succumbed to torture and murder psychology cannot just calmly narrate it.
So obviously, yeah, it's quite a ghoulish and evil thing to take what used to be a person, and a figure who has been studied and mourned because of their personhood, because we can relate to them as a person, and just completely strip them of their personhood and turn them into an inhumane object.
But then that leads to me the question of, who's watching these things, and why?
The article says they got quite a lot of views.
Is it just for shock value?
I don't quite understand.
I'm sympathetic to a Windows install taking days (I've been there), but you're right that it's not Windows' fault.
It's always some 10 year-old hardware with dodgy or no-longer-supported drivers.
Maybe you could make an argument that it's partly Windows' fault because they push driver support onto the hardware vendors, rather than use Linux' model of having the kernel developers maintain them.
It depends on precisely what you mean by "fail" and how strictly you take "day", but Digg did lose 50% of its traffic within 30 days (and it never recovered).
Edit: to add more detail.
If you look in the project for some files that have been updated recently, such as this one, the feature list includes some numeric codes at the top, which are the same ones StagingTool uses.
The ones without any symbolic name at all, I believe, are ones that have not been determined yet what they do.
I had an old laser printer that was officially unsupported on OS X.
Meaning that they had a driver for OS X for a similar model, but not exactly the same model, that supposedly worked for it, but they deliberately did not let you use it with my model of printer.
Found some crazy instructions online that told you to install the drivers, then change the driver with a hex editor to force it to recognize your printer as a different model.
It worked, occasionally, intermittently.
I spend like half a week trying to get it to work under OS X and it just wouldn't work reliably.
Tried a Windows computer.
Wasted half a day installing a driver, uninstalling a driver, plugging in, unplugging, turning on, turning off, but it just couldn't recognize it.
Booted into Linux and hit "print" and it worked perfectly.
Didn't even need to install a driver.
Two of the top answers here are missing from that list and, to be frank, that list does not really contain any useful information. For example, where do I see on that list which clients can display images?