Recent KDE Plasma versions are stable, polished, fully customizable. Perfect? probably not, there are some occasional issues, but nothing truly irritating. I use openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling distro) as a main OS on my laptop and desktop. While many distributions focus on GNOME environment, Tumbleweed has first-class support for Plasma. Wayland works great out of the box, also for most third-party apps. Built-in snapshot support makes sure the system stays stable all the time. As a software engineer, I think it's the best setup I can have today.

As it requires 32 GB of RAM.

Yes and not because "they are done", but also because few people are really interested in maintaining and expanding GNU code written 30 years ago in the language which isn't appropriate anymore to write anything beyond the very low-level OS kernels.

Or may be because C++ isn't fun to work with at all and it introduces no real advantages because it has the same fundamental issues as C.

C++ has no traits, no thread safety, no built-in utf-8 strings, no proper macros, no immutability by default, it is still inherently unsafe even without using the raw pointers.

Why not, it will be an interesting project and I can only welcome it. I don't understand your point in complaining that some people are busy doing something that you don't like.

Well I did, but funny enough, most people who complain about Rust language know absolutely nothing about it and just repeat the common FUD.

Not many, but there are some discovered: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/... and who knows how many undiscovered. And it's not only about the existing code but also adding a new code.

Well, even without it's built-in compile-time safety, Rust is a modern language with a lot of features missing in C (just naming a few like traits, generics, utf-8 strings, FP-style constructs, immutability, standard library, thread safety, async, etc.), and it is much more attractive for the new developers.

It's not about memory leaks but memory safety and much better maintainability that legacy GNU C code. For logic errors there is a comprehensive test suite.

I have a hybrid Volvo V60 which is a fine car (fast, spacey, comfortable), but the infotainment system is a nightmare. Based on AAOS, it is riddled with bugs and is quite sluggish. New software releases do not happen often, and sometimes introduce more issues after update than fix them. Yes, you have access to Google Maps and Play Store, but the app selection is very limited and what's the point anyway if most can be only used while parked.

Comes with a must have accessory for every Apple touchscreen user: a rag for only $99.99.

One area where it shines is localization. "Hey bot, find all English strings in the code enclosed in double quotes, for each string create a key in the form 'category-description', for example error-not-found, create a translation file in Fluent format in the form of "key = value" for all those keys and their values. Do that for the following locales: ..."

With some prompt refinements, corrections, etc, done in 2 hours. Saved me 2 weeks of manual work.

Apple customers will pay anyway even if they double or triple the price.

When we transition to clean, beautiful coal.

The body and the brain cannot be separated, it's one organism which cannot exist without the other part. We don't even know what consciousness is, so how can we even "suppress" it's emergence in the brain? Or do they suggest completely brainless bodies? In this case, what organ is taking care of coordinating and controlling all the living functions?

Thanks for the dupe from 3 days ago: https://science.slashdot.org/s...

Retire into some tropical island with a heap of cash or what? I mean, with an open fraud like this you'll be caught anyway.

I'd say in a given week I only do 15 minutes of real, actual work.