It’s subsystems all the way down

And so cometh the foretold LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows)

It’s half and half tbh

https://youtu.be/jrLJYU5jHjc

$ sudo systemd-inhibit lucifer

I haven’t had fun reading a comment thread like this in a while. Thanks guys, this is pure gold.

Edit: it’s just a tribute

The last thing a scraper wants is to stand out. Most scrapers out there masquerade as Windows+Chrome on PC. It’s not hard to spoof a user agent and any scrapers that identify uniquely get blocked real fast.

I think what drove me to that decision was the cpufreq extension. It kept breaking with every update. I usually shrugged it off but it really irked me every time.

My last straw was when they changed the theming system to force the use of libadwaita and broke my customised theme and dark mode. I don’t do a lot of customisation in general but I have rigid preferences when it comes to how I want my system to look and behave. They broke it and that drove me to explore other solutions.

I tested KDE Plasma for a couple days and I managed to replicate my setup in like 4 hours—most of which I spent exploring new things that would be impossible to do in GNOME without modifying its code base—and the end result was an improved setup which was less clunky since I didn’t have to use as many extensions as I did with GNOME to begin with. It was bliss for me.

I ultimately decided to move on.

I used to be a GNOME fanatic a couple of years ago. I switched to KDE after I got tired of the perpetually broken state of extensions.

I’m still thankful for all the effort and commitment the GNOME devs have invested over the years though! It’s an excellent desktop environment!

Oof. Right in the nostalgia.

Or, and hear me out, what if they actually have good engineers and know how to sanitise their analytics? And at the risk of sounding crazy, what if the reason that the Linux share is rising is because it’s genuinely becoming more popular?

Crazy talk, right?

This was physically painful to read

That’s beautiful. Thank you!

web.archive.org and theverge.com, reuyers.com, etc. a regular expression would be even better

This is amazing. I love discovering new/interesting developer blogs like this one, which is a challenge considering they’re all buried by SEO bullshit.

This should be up top. I wish I could prioritise comments with keywords in voyager.

Sounds like a compliment battle.

Especially the showers

Then he did it because he wanted to, not because he had to. You can just double-click the fonts in your file manager and preview/install the font if you’re using a typical distro/desktop environment.

Edit: he likes to customise his environment to hell afaik, so he probably has a non-standard setup

Then you forgot the /s

So, what other fix is there to avoid this besides removing windows?

Editing the registry, using a debloater, I can think of a few things. Even downgrading/reinstalling Windows could be an option.

Your blanket “remove windows” solution is just trolling at this point