TIL that you can declare return types this way in C++.

auto main() -> int

What programming language is this even?!

maybe, but there are also things it arguably does better than Linux, e.g. user access control

(If you can still find this story, I’d be very interested in it, please do link to it here.)

yeah I know, far from production-ready though

That is the literal opposite of what the world needs.

Windows isn’t a bad OS from a purely technical perspective. If Windows were released as FOSS, I would switch to Windows without hesitation.

KDE Plasma and it’s configured to have everything in the same places as Windows as much as possible. I have to use Windows for work and gaming and like it when I don’t have to think much about which computer I’m using right now.

inb4 Iceweasel

KDE is a community of developers.

KDE Plasma is the desktop environment made by the KDE community.

This has been the correct terminology since 2009, much longer than “the past year or so”, but a lot of people do still call KDE Plasma just “KDE” colloquially, so maybe you have just been noticing people using the correct terminology more recently.

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me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana

For Python definitely PyCharm.

I remember that RMS’s position is that if someone (!) can change it (eg there is an “update firmware” button), it is a computer and should run free software. If no one can ever change it, it is a circuit. I think that makes some sense.

any distro except the ones listed here https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html technically already “took” that “route”

I know all of that. The “not have owners” wording was mainly a reference to https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.en.html

Free software doesn’t have owners, that is kinda the point of free licensing.

Someone else would do whatever Linus does now. I am not sure what exactly that is nowadays. In fact it is already now the case that if he (or any maintainer of any FOSS) did a bad job maintaining it, someone else could step in, do a better job and many people would switch to that fork.

yup, now that I think of it again, I think smooth scrolling is something different, autoscrolling is what I meant

In Firefox (and many forks of it) this is a setting in the app preferences, I think it is called “smooth scrolling autoscrolling” or similar.

In most other apps I do not think this is possible.

edited, thanks for correction below

I have used both in the past, but now use neither of them, have been exclusively a KDE Plasma user for several years by now and no longer feel like trying much different.

GNOME 2 was the first DE I ever used on GNU/Linux, so MATE has a nostalgic feel to me. I do not think Xfce is very radically different from it in its functionality, although the default configuration is somewhat different. This is really mostly a matter of personal taste.

Things like that aren’t a feature of the terminal emulator, but of the shell. Try to find out which shell you’re using on Android, maybe try using that one on desktop too.

I wrote (not only, but some) more intelligent things on the Internet when I was a teenager.