I think we're in agreement that this is out of control... but I would say its not "people" who aren't satisfied, I'd say it's the companies themselves that keep pushing this out the door to justify their own existence... then it becomes a self perpetuating cycle. This is why I referred to wifi... got a machine last year with wifi6... was so new there was no linux driver... until... I don't even care, but I think it was included in the most recent kernel... but there are zero significant improvements for me.. iirc, I went with an ndis wrapper... so that's even less efficient than native support... and it makes zero effing difference to me, you can't tell one way or the other when you're using it. Just read the next comment... I'm already behind! now wifi7 is out! Yawn. Don't care one bit.

alright 6G whatever... so it's not wifi.... but its all the same argument
keep moving the goalposts so nobody ever gets anything done
we're just hamsters in a wheel

last year's tech is still just fine, there's nothing in it for you to upgrade, you probably arent even using the full capacity of what you've got.... speed? size? we've had fast enough and big enough for quite a few years now.

I don't want to hear about wifi "improvements".
I seriously think this just creates reasons to upgrade rather than solving problems or making MY life any better.
Like all technology: the way to fix it is always more technology.
Its a self serving cycle for the tech companies, keep chumps on a constant upgrade cycle.
Good for business, questionable for the end users.

What? All [amazon or whatever] cares about is cost/benefit/profit. Old (and rare) books are cheap and [amazon or whatever] is already investing massively in data centers. The beast demands to be fed.

The US intelligence agencies determined it was not in the United State's national security interest for Nvidia's most advanced chips to be exported without control, for fear they'd fall into the wrong hands, (like the Chinese). The UAE really wanted to buy those chips so they bribed Trump and voila!

This is what is know to the industry as, "a cluster".

Actually AI sorts everything very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

amen brother... dependency "hell" using apt is pretty effing good vs flatpak and snap. Appimages I agree are the only portable format that doesn't f*ck you over. Actually, if you use apt you dont' have dependency hell. I've used debian/devuan and apt for ever now, over 20 years, on hundreds of installations. Install or remove/purge operations have worked very well, only occasional problems have occurred with nearly always something to do with python versions. Ugh. If I want problems, I'll stick with PHP. The worst php version problem is nothing compared to python hell. Avoid python if possible. Ive been around the system ops track a few times, and my life has been pretty easy by only using Devuan/Apt + a few Appimages. I had the unfortunate experience of having to install and use Redhat a few times, and what ever they use for package management, I've fortunately forgotten its black name, (rpm?) it was untrustworthy and horrible. Use Redhat if you want to get 98% of a computer working. If you want 100% use Devuan. Even Debian is tolerable since they dumped systemd-resolved.

Looks like a personal customization to me. I did that too about 15 years ago... what was it called? Umm.. I asked the great big head in the sky (Gemini) this was it: Refracta (and its core tool suite, Refracta Tools), created by fsmithred. same guy behind Devuan.

I used Refracta to make a customized iso that I could install on client computers and machines on the private lan ... customize once, install many times. This distro looks nearly like what I had 15 years ago. So yeah. It's barely a distro at all, but a customization of devuan.. but what is ubuntu but a customization of debian? side note. I personally like compiz, but basically it's just a cube and a couple of animations when opening and closing windows... everything else is just a toy... but I find the 3d spatialization of workspaces to be very useful organization metaphor.

You can't be serious. For starters their so called systematic studies are thin and extremely dated. But secondly they obviously did the studies wrong, asked the wrong questions to the wrong users, and drew the wrong conclusions. Nothing makes sense in gnome and it's opaque to discover how to use it. Free yourself and use ... well... anything else.

I believe the description you are looking for is "beyond atrocious".
Fortunately I only had to read your woltman link to see the atrocity that I've sucessfully avoided since Gnome was the best UI in all computerland. (version 2.x I think). Notwithstanding it's large memory footprint at the time.

You'd have to be mentally retarded to want to use that given any other alternative. I'm pretty sure even windows vista was better than that. Even the Gnome programmers are probably doing their work on Macs. Who would willingly subject themselves to that?

I want a pony.

you're right. I looked around. He was a loudmouth wrong about nearly everything. I was just wearing my things were better back in the olden days glasses I guess. I didn't follow him past Cranky Geeks. I did like the show though, clearly I forgot all the content. I probably would have hated him if I didnt lose track of him. <puts olden days glasses back on>