Has it occured to you that your cat is trying to communicate with you?

It's not like the cat can sit up and say "Listen, that water is too warm and disgusting and making me drink it is making me very unhappy."

Instead of treating it as a fight for dominance between you and the cat, perhaps you should view it as an honest communication attempt and fix the water situation. It is obviously important enough to the cat to to have complained in the only way she can think of, non-stop, for years.

You hit the nail on the head. What linux (and indeed most of OSS) desperately needs in that lineup is "easier to use".

And the problem is systemic and self-enforcing. Because the culture of programmer-knows-best feels good to the devs of any project, attempts to improve usability (when not part of an organization that will enforce it) are ignored or actively rejected with nice friendly sentiments of "Shut up, make your own if you think you can do better." and similar that really helps motivate people.

Desktop linux (excluding being used as typewriter) is like having a metallurgically perfect hammer, but with the head rotated 90 degrees back and to the side. If you want people to use that hammer is it better to:
a) redesign the damn head, or b) tell them to develop the hammer-ninjutsu required to use it because it works just fine for you and metallurgist friends?

Actually text-based or otherwise less "ad-looking" ads are proven to be more effective in every way, but a lot of people with money still seem to think it is completely obvious that the louder their ad screams the more it will sell their product/service.
Just to not break with tradition and car analogies; Kind of like how another group of people think putting as many huge subwoofers as possible into their cars obviously makes their music system better.

If someone doing that is reading this:

(Most people should know this but on the off chance someone doesn't and just happens to see this..)

It is extremely simple to do automated boundary-detecting screenshots with various plugins and/or tools.
Just do yourself a favour and accept that if someone wishes to keep an image that is displayed on their screen, they will.

Or perhaps the ridiculously high pricing is the problem with electrostatic ones...

(And before someone starts comparing these to audiophile-priced standard speakers, get-me-them-magical-cables audiophiles don't count as general public.)

I think you've missed the whole point of PDFs. They are meant to preserve formatting.

People use PDFs for the same reason they don't use HTML or plain text for said documents, and vice versa.

Now if the documents you want are perfectly readable as plain text you should blame the source for using an unsuitable format, rather than hating the format for doing what it is supposed to do.

Well I have read what you both refer to and I can say that aside from deeper and more beleivable characters and stories in general, Shirow has a distinctly better explanation for his sentient program than Heinlein's handwaving of "it just had so many parts fitted to it". And more interestingly philosophical to boot.

And attacking someone with "you do not understand books with no pictures" shows that a) you have no appreciation of visual arts and b) you have no valid arguments yet want to find some way of attacking someone who does.

And you don't think that could have something to do with copyright infringement not usually being a crime? Unless you mean actual piracy, which often involves eyepatches and speech impediments..