If that is the complete list of monitors for CES 2026, that means it will be three straight years without updates to the ultrawide lineup. When the hell can I get a QD-OLED version of the 57" dual-4K ultrawide? FFS, I'll sign my bank account over to Samsung if you just make the damned thing.

If I need to look up the definition of a word, I do what everyone else does and go to urbandictionary.com.

Agreed. That is why I hesitate to recommend Linux to people. I realize that a part of the reason Linux seems to work so well for me is that my extensive experience with it allows me to resolve issues much more easily than new users and for any issues that don't have an easy solution, I've learned to work around those issues. I'm just pointing out that it goes both ways, as I discovered when attempting to use Windows for the first time after fifteen years of avoiding it.

Both siding Linux and Windows does absolutely nothing for Linux

My intent was to show that Windows has many warts as well. When people use a tool for a very long time, as Windows users have, they tend to look past many of the drawbacks of that tool because they've changed their behavior to avoid those deficiencies. In many cases they do this to a degree that they sometimes forget the deficiencies even exist. This was my attempt to shine a light on at least one of those deficiencies.

Burying our heads in the sand while chanting "proprietary software has problems too" is how we got to this point

Gotten to what point? Linux is better than ever and has a higher desktop share than ever. It's not dominating, but who says that it has to? It's continuing to gain hardware support, it can play games better than ever, and it has far more familiarity and favorable attention than it has in the past.

Where Microsoft makes the best IDE for Linux, but being open source and cross platform, why use it on a Linux system?

That's certainly debatable. However, it is interesting that VSCode is more reminiscent of old-school OSS software than anything else MS has ever released: it's highly modular, it comes barebones but is customizable and extensible enough to allow users to complete it the way they want, and its early versions had no way to configure the UI other than editing a text file. No wonder Linux users took to it so easily!

The point where most "Linux" systems don't actually have Linux, they're OSS utilities in a WSL terminal on a Windows desktop

In many cases, this is because people are either complacent or want to use their computers to run software that only works in Windows. Both are understandable and if Windows works well enough, why would they look elsewhere?

or Brew on a Mac

Most people using Macs are doing so because they like the hardware. Unless System76, Tuxedo, or a new entrant suddenly makes hardware that rivals Macbooks, Linux will not entice these users one bit and it has little to do with the OS itself.

because Linux software distribution not being "desktop scale" is the understatement of the decade

I'm assuming "desktop scale" means having a single package management system. Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to be a major hurdle at all for the many games and apps that have native versions for Linux.

The whole idea of a Linux OS, as in a unix-like OS built with Linux and free software, it's a fantasy on desktop

Apparently I've been living a fantasy for nearly three decades.

its best days were behind it on server

Thanks to native containerization, there's never been a better time to run a Linux server. Besides, what else would you run on a server other than maybe BSD?

I know Linux still has tons of room for improvement, but I refuse to see it as a failure because it never became an overnight sensation. In many ways, I like its niche status because I feel like it provides some insulation from enshittification. If everyone was using Linux, companies would be far more tempted to inject it full of ads and dumb things too far down to avoid overwhelming new users. At the moment, it's actually in a bit of a sweet spot between having really good support but not being over-commercialized.

My point isn't meant to imply that Linux never has these issues because I've never encountered them. Instead, it was meant to show that Windows isn't immune from these types of problems either.

I don't disagree. I was just pointing out that it took both sides of the aisle to come together and fuck us.

That's funny because coworkers in my office were always complaining that the office printer would disappear from the list of configured printers in Windows. That never happened on my Linux laptop.

Amazon could easily spin up its own robotic vacuum company if they wanted to

Of course. But these days companies often don't buy other companies for the technology - instead, they buy them for the brand recognition and captive userbase.

It's not weird at all. That profit comes from those companies leveraging reduced competition to charge artificially-inflated prices. Of course they're going to be wildly profitable!

IOW undoing the works of Bill Clinton and the bipartisan support of the Republican-led House and Senate

FTFY. That was the same year that we got the DMCA - politicians were very busy that year creating legislation that would fuck us for decades.

DJI, all of this could go away if the right amount of cryptocurrency is deposited into the right account. And would it kill you to rename your company to DJT?

There's no need to get that personal, let alone on a tech web site. While I don't know you, I'm sure you can be better than that.

Also, considering the companies I heard named in conjunction with the play, I hope it's a total failure.

It doesn't have to work - it just needs to deposit billions of taxpayer dollars into those company bank accounts.

I think you mean Tepublicans. And they want whatever they're told they want.

s EU citizen, it amazes me that USA still - in the 21st century - doesn't provide basic consumer rights such as 3 year warranty in addition to manufacturers voluntary warranty, or even basic rights such as right to be reimbursed.

In the EU, you take pride and comfort in creating legislation that prevents companies from giving you a non-consensual dick in the ass. In the US, we take pride and comfort in having the freedom to choose the dick that will fuck us in the ass.