debil

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[–] debil 3 points 4 months ago

They should've checked this from the authority himself: Gary Busey.

[–] debil 2 points 4 months ago

And hence the term read-only Friday.

[–] debil 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a European I can confirm that you're full of shit on this one.

[–] debil 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ool nurses.

rarians.

MTs.

[–] debil 1 points 4 months ago

There's also Xfce4, MATE, Cinnamon which come ith man, OS installers as an option. Not to mention various smaller projects (e.g. LXDE or whatever the cool kids use nowadays). Personally I've been spoilt by Awesome WM since 2008 and can't live without terminal/shell.

[–] debil 2 points 4 months ago
[–] debil 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Needing to use command line for some things that should be a right click

Right click where? All major DE's/WM's implement stuff in their own way. The problem here is we don't (and won't) have a unified GUI that everyone uses, unlike the other two main OS's. (Note: I don't see this as a problem, more as a result of the FLOSS ecosystem being such a rich soil to build stuff on.)

I think Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning was the Command Line has some valid points even today.

[–] debil 2 points 5 months ago

Many parts of FW work a bit like an abstract painting where each viewer finds their own interpretation, each of those equally valid and independent of what the author possibly intended. An AI dumbed down version would just show one path through the work, the one it thinks is the main road. But yes, at best, such version could sparkle an interest and function as a gateway to the work. Or extinguish all interest for good.

[–] debil 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. I'd definitely skim through such a version, albeit it totally abolishes the intricacies of FW.

[–] debil 8 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I think it's just a side effect to Lemmy doom-scrolling.

[–] debil 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That's actually not that bad. Of course missing all the smells and taste of the text, allusions and double meanings, but as a very coarse synopsis it'll do.

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