These are all valid opinions. Certainly 1% of movement is better than no movement. Certainly gets us closer to the goal, but IMO, it will take more movement before publishers will take Linux seriously, especially for more custom applications.
The frustrating part is when there are laws in place for something, and they're not being enforced and law makers think that making more laws about something will somehow fix the enforcement issues...
Making it more illegal only harms law abiding people, enforcement actually harms the law breakers.
That's an important step, for sure, but that's not going to push the majority.
I'm that guy for plenty of people and the number of times a conversation starts with "so I bought..." is crazy. It's basically the first thing anyone says to me when they need help.
This probably won't be showing up on shelves at best buy along side computers from the likes of Dell, HP, and Lenovo. I kind of expect it to show up next to the Xbox, PlayStation, and switch, if it shows up at all.
Also, steamOS is not exactly a desktop operating system right out of the gate, is entirely gaming focused. Yeah, you can use it for those things, but that's not the focus of the device/OS.
I'm not sure Grandma and Grandpa would want a steam machine as a replacement for their aging Windows 7 home computer.
Standardization is a requirement. Whether that still gives the user the ability to color outside of the lines on what's considered "standard" will be the key factor.
I'm as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it's not a big shift. Going from ... What? 5% to 6%? That's great and all but it's hardly moving the needle.
If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that's as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that's both good enough and transparent enough that people don't need to think about it much.
Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.
That still hasn't happened yet. We can't even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system...
The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That's also the thing that's going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.
I was reviewing some PowerShell script today and it was absolutely atrocious. It's only saving grace was that it was using actual PowerShell, not some hacky wmic call or anything.
I didn't write it and I'm really glad for that. Whole lines of rewritten code commented out and just left there. Entire lines of # marks. There's no reason this should be so densely commented. Your code should be self explanatory.
There were multiple queries to the same database that was then passed through a "where-object" selector by pipe, looking for a single value (pulling a database of thousands of entries for one line).
It was disgusting.
I'm not even a developer and I thought it was horrid.
Just like people dying in T-bone or head-on collisions. Not to mention rollovers and other crashes.
Each of them carries the chance of fatality.
It's unpredictable, which is why we can't eliminate fatalities entirely.
My most recent point is that even the fatalities from being rear-ended are significantly reduced from even 10-15 years ago. Making the small (but still too high) probability of a fatality from that type of crash, smaller (but still too high).
Therefore, the most likely outcome from such an incident would be the destruction of property, not loss of life.
Which is the original point I was being pedantic about. The original comment was that stopping and not driving wouldn't kill anyone, and the reply that kicked off this insane tangent, was that the people behind might.
And I'm staying, no, they won't die (it is statistically very unlikely).
I think that to make an adequate determination of that, we would have to know what they did vote for.
Sure, we can infer it's probably not a higher grocery bill, but that's what they didn't vote for.
We need to know what they did vote for and whether it relates to the situation at hand.
Since their motives for voting how they did are impossible to know from this individual post, we would be unable to make an adequate judgement call as to how LAMF, or LAMF adjacent this might, or might not be.
So everything we're saying now is conjecture and opinion.
Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.
How calm should I be about driver's being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because "lol, what was I supposed to do?!?" .... Exactly?
Can't see? Don't drive. It's not fucking rocket surgery.
These are all valid opinions. Certainly 1% of movement is better than no movement. Certainly gets us closer to the goal, but IMO, it will take more movement before publishers will take Linux seriously, especially for more custom applications.