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Comment Re:Still no improvement on usability.... (Score 1) 49

Fully agree. I used FVWM too, after Gnome 2 was not usable anymore. I discovered Xfce later when is started to be the alternative of Gnome 3 on the Debian installer configuration. This make Xfce fairly well maintained and documented, easy to install, dans safe to recommend to others.

Look like you are not alone with the idea of extending Xfce window variable tiling:
https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/...
Hopefully this will be accepted in a near future.

In the meantime there are deep hack like this (no tested myself):
https://github.com/ssokolow/qu...
https://ssokolow.com/quicktile...

Comment Re:Still no improvement on usability.... (Score 2) 49

I understand the satire, LOL! Is the Gnome team really so over intoxicated by Apple?

What's nice with Xfce is that even if the default configuration is not what I want, I can quickly and easily adjust the configuration to fulfill all my expectations, without imposing anything to the others Xfce users. The whole usability concept of Xfce is far greater than many others desktop, including proprietary. I recommend Xfce to better hint the users on how flexible it is to implement personal preferences.

Comment Re: Seriously? (Score 1) 187

Exactly. I nerver understand why postgres is not more popular. I use postgres based ERPs or with data visualization tool, or directly with libpq, since two decades now and it's proved an absolutely rock solid reliability and super good performances on complex queries when proper index and keys are in place. With postgres I managed dataset by far exceeding multiple times the scale of this F1 team, on multiple projects.

Comment Still no improvement on usability.... (Score 2) 49

I have give up with Gnome since Gnome 3, even if I try it time to time. But the completely wrong usability concept seem to be immutable is this project.

I use Xfce instead with a quick configuration that "focus follow mouse without delay", "no auto raise window or on click", a 8x8 virtual desktop grid, a lot of useful information on the top bar, and a lot of tabs and launchers on the bottom bar. Very simple, fast and productive.

I use the right Ctrl + arrows keyboard shortcut to navigate the desktop gride (add right shift to move the active window). This allow to do most of the navigate actions with just one hand. Once you try this, you can't go back to the shortcut that require two hands to navigate. Peoples are usually puzzle when looking at how fast I can switch between a lot of well organized desktops.

Comment Gnome 3+ did a great job at killing Linux Desktop (Score 1) 155

Gnome 2 was so close to perfect. I never understood how the Gnome 3+ disaster was possible in the first place. Gnome is now at version 45 and has not resolved a single one of the gigantic usability problems it introduced out of nowhere.
There's a reason why alternatives like the excellent XFCE are so successful today. I think XFCE just needs a better default configuration and a fun tutorial that better shows off its exceptional capabilities.

Comment Re:"notable" (Score 1) 139

There are kernel modules distributed in binary.

The API is exactly where C++ is absolutely completely wrong from the first start of the language more than 40 years ago. This is why any C++ library widely used need to have a C API: to be interoperable with all others languages. C++ is atrocious when used for system language, and the main reason of his failure in that domain. C++ community fail to observe that those problems was caused by very early decisions when the language was first designed long time ago, when nobody was able to forecast all the details of the systems of the very large uses of computing we have today. Almost half of the decision back then can be view today as wrong, or problematic, or inefficient. There is a reason why so many object oriented languages was designed the last 30 years. Don't get me wrong: all of that history was good because this allowed to experiment a lot of possibilities, up to the absurd situation of the today C++ that keep pushing new features on top of something with obsolete bases.

The Rust effort is today the only plausible language that have gain enough community attention to be something that could replace C at the system level. But this will be not a granted win as so many wanting to add problematic features in it just because that feature exists in another language like C++. Something completely different could win as futures systems could be a network of quasi virtual machines running highly optimized system partially implemented by AI. The futures could be something that describes the hardware and the requirement in many different forms, and refer to existing descriptions, in an iterative process that generate questions and propositions up to the point where the generated program can execute the required task.

Comment Re:Blame where it belongs. (Score 1) 78

That offshore to India is a myth. The relevant investigation documentation describes how the software design modification was made in the USA in accordance with the Boeing specification. There is even a design compliance matrix that was done to validate that the design was in conformity with the Boeing specification. Boeing was fully at fault on that.

Comment Re:"Hand-written Assembly" (Score 1) 139

True historical fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

While this is a completely different effort, the philosophical legacy of that approach is today https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I never understood why GObject never got the attention he deserve to with all the very good features it have, especially regarding languages interoperability.
The programming language Vala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... build on GObject is very good, but also failed to take a large enough attraction from the industry. Unfortunately, It lack the memory safety that Rust bring on the table with great success.

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