"The C-Suite that you rail against is entirely profit motivated."

You're not wrong, you're just thinking small. That is, not like a member of that clan of jackals.

They are worried about THEIR personal profits, they don't give two fucks about any given corporation. And if you do, you're stupid, because corporations don't have hearts or souls and are literally not capable of caring about you.

As long as they come out looking competent, they will be able to get a job at the next corporation, and secure THEIR profits.

Anything except competent management people and practices and fostering a healthy workplace culture, you mean.

The language won't solve the cultural problems.

"The lowest common denominator exists, and they code." ... for Microsoft

The desktop background is the modern customized splash screen.

Window decorations and effects matter to me, for both functional and aesthetic reasons. To me, KDE is a sort of modernized cross between Windows 7 and NeXTStep in that department. And it gets right things that Windows has gotten worse about in 11, like being able to read the fucking clock. I seriously don't know who came up with that idea, but on the same display, I can read the taskbar clock on KDE without glasses and not on Windows unless I scale everything and throw away the benefit of the high-resolution display. And that's on the automatic display mode, but you actually also get settings.

I tried using Wayland with Devuan Excalibur (Debian Trixie) and my experience with it was not good. I had some games not work and a lot fewer windows could reopen where I left them. This is with AMD graphics. With Nvidia on Devuan Daedalus it really just doesn't work at all for me, and I'm not interested in figuring out why.

This is irritating, but hopefully X will last until my next PC or even my next GPU, which will probably be from AMD. The Nvidia Linux driver situation is unsatisfactory — they will not miss my money in any case, which no doubt helps explain the lack of attention. While their Linux drivers are typically current these days, and have approximately the same performance as the Windows drivers, they still just aren't very stable. Also, the installer sucks, where with AMD OSS drivers that's simply not a thing.

I ran every wm under the sun back in the 90s as well, designing whole desktop and widget themes around each one, and now I just use KDE. Does it do every single thing I used to do, no. Do I care, also no, because it's a great desktop. It does pretty much all the things I used to actually do with compiz. The thing I really want it to do (per-window scaling) I didn't have with compiz either. Yeah I know compiz still exists, but it's flakier than ever.

I used Gentoo on a K6 laptop and it "only" took about three days to rebuild the entire system. Updates were not a serious burden.

LibreOffice isn't as good as mickeysoft office, it's way better. The only thing Ms does better is that excel has live pivot tables

Run along, coward. I have people who are only stupid to mock.

I've bought all kinds of stuff because people bought it to use with one Windows version and the very next version didn't support it. This is usually due to literal malfeasance on the part of the maker, not Microsoft. The new devices speak the same protocol and WOULD work with the new driver, but either the driver is coded to not work with them or even just the inf file doesn't have the right vid/pids. You can sometimes make them work with hackery but your average user can't do that. The idea that Windows has good hardware support is very stupid, but there's no shortage of stupid people here.

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Tech literate

You guys are hilarious

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Things just work

Tell us you know nothing about Windows without telling us

People may simply be used to the cinematic look, but it might also be objectively better in some ways, hiding some defects for example.

I support this idea but it's not trivial to implement, some bills are big and cover a lot of related area for legitimate reasons (whether they have bullshit tacked on or not.)

Perhaps they simply don't believe that copyright terms should have been extended, and that culture belongs to The People, as copyright law used to acknowledge with its original period. Maybe the extremists are the ones that think that culture should never belong to The People, like you.

You can't trust that a Chinese RoHS label is legit, Chinese companies are slapping it on shit like shoelaces. Meanwhile China has an essentially impossible to comply with RoHS standard for goods sold in their country, where you are taking responsibility for the content of your product, and you cannot simply cite your suppliers' specifications.