CrowdStrike had a pretty good kill switch to blast devices off the internet! ;)

I'm guessing most business users in a Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Yes the UI is horrible and bloated compared to Chrome, but it syncs with your Microsoft work account.

It's a fantastic deal if your have a real need for Word/Excel/PowerPoint at home or if all you need is raw online storage. But in my experience, real-life use of online storage is for the tons of photos and videos we take each day with our smartphones, and OneDrive is a really subpar alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos. Documents and emails only use a small portion of my online storage quota.

Too many major distros are switching to Wayland, I highly doubt there will be any going back to X. (just like it didn't happen with PulseAudio and systemd despite all their flaws)

*shivers* that's some scary stuff there, journalists at The Gazette must live in the constant fear of meeting the same fate as Anna Politkovskaya. You think FSB agents are bad guys? The're Care Bears compared to OQLF agents. I'm French-speaking myself and I live in a constant state of fear of saying an anglicism by mistake and being arrested. Even our national dish (Poutine) has the same name as the Russian dictator. Coincidence? I don't think so...

Yeah 5$/month is an interesting bargain, until you actually use Office 365 and realize the mess that it is. You tought that Google Drive was a mess? Just wait when you try SharePoint and Teams...not to mention the web versions of Word/Excel/PowerPoint that they try to push by default when you click on every god damn link but actually doesn't work because your Excel file has XML maps (or whatever reason) that forces you to open it again but with the desktop app instead... Anyway...I miss Google Workspace. It was crap, but less crappy than Office 365.

It's maintenance free but it comes with an expiration date: https://support.google.com/chr... I have a 3 years old ASUS Chromebook Flip in perfect working condition, but it stopped getting sofware and security updates this summer because Google decided the device was outdated. It was my first and last Chromebook.

My memories from the Windows 3.x days were that games ran in DOS and everything else (internet and productivity software) were native Windows apps so unless you were a PC gamer Windows was actually quite useful and it had a big sofware ecosystem even before Win95 came out. But yeah, hardware and driver management sucked in Win 3.x

By "silly tweaks" he's probably referring to the default GNOME 3 experience in Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04, which in my book is how GNOME 3 should be out of the box. I almost gave up on GNOME 3 a couple of months ago but after trying Ubuntu 17.10 I changed my mind. Everything I hate about GNOME 3 is fixed in Ubuntu: you have tray icons, desktop icons, minimize buttons, fixed task bar, etc. Ubuntu saved GNOME 3's ass from a user's perspective, they should be thankful.

"GNOME 3.26 no longer shows status icons in the bottom-left of the screen. This prevents the status icon tray from getting in the way and is expected to provide a better overall experience." The status icon tray was not in the way at all, it was hidden in the lower left corner of the screen. And since the applications that uses the tray will assume that the tray is still there, I'm guessing that they will continue to run in the background without the user knowing?

Why is everyone putting all their energy bashing at Systemd and Lennart instead of complaining to the distro maintainers? Turn your anger at Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, etc, they are the ones pushing Systemd down the throat of the Linux community. In the end, the distros decides what software to include by default, nobody forced the distos to switch to Systemd. "But Gnome 3 depends on Systemd!" So what??? Boycott Gnome 3 then and don't ship it with your next release, it's not like there are no alternatives!