Hot take: the more Gnome shoots itself in the foot, the better for Linux.

Having to use Outlook was a significant contributor to me leaving my last job.

Obviously they need to make exit’s repr method raise a SystemExit

rmdir ./~

I’m grateful to Microsoft for Windows 11 providing me a bunch of free machines to stick in my basement and put Linux on.

You’re describing the boot keyboard, not the full USB HID protocol. It is true that there are some keyboards that only support NKRO, but the USB HID protocol has supported NKRO forever. https://www.devever.net/~hl/usbnkro

About as wide as my oversized fridge.

Can’t wait to get rid of that shit and have something that actually fits in my kitchen.

Me replacing GNU coreutils with the rust ones.

That doesn’t get you a good text editor. That just gets you emacs with two bad next editors.

My experience with Apple has been more like

I credit Apple in many ways for their choice to design their business in a way that their profit motive often aligns with their users’ interests.

Their app store model for iOS is one of the strongest examples of them not doing that though.

Oh I knew. It was the last CD in the spindle and I had no plans of buying any more.

The 747 doesn’t have that bad a safety record. I’m more interested in what random radio transmissions occur from it.

A cat and a bike

They’re already getting that illegally so that wouldn’t change.

But how am I going to use capabilities to have my equivalent of sl having setuid to nobody?

This is not how probability works.

They’re downloaded somewhere under /var/snap and by default a snap only has access to a limited set of directories - one under /var/snap for system-wide data (generally used by snaps that run services like cups or MySQL) and one under ~/snap for each user. When you snap remove an app, it bundles that up into a file that’s kept for a while in case you reinstall, but it won’t if you use --purge.

Obviously many apps request access to other places (such as non-hidden directories in your homedir) so they can read or write stuff, but that’s down to the app to then behave correctly (same as with any other packaging system).

Let me know when I can get cups as a flatpak.

(Oh and snaps predate flatpaks.)

Yeah the API is open and there used to be an open store, but lack of interest ended up with the project shutting down. As it turns out people don’t like alternative stores nearly as much as they like the idea of alternative stores.