It's kindof hard to fathom Microsoft's continual abuse of their customers. All i can think of, is that it's enabled by the slightly unbalanced personality, and of lack of common sense so many super geeks have (cough - Bill Gates). They've been defending their tech messiah for so long against the Linux and Mac cults , that they're just in too deep, on so many levels, to acknowledge the totally ridiculous, authoritarian, technologically-doomed and self-destructive direction MS has embarked on.

Ahahaha :)

I'll just note for those that may not know - NZ, even more so than Australia, has a huge cost of housing crisis, contributed to by tourism, immigration, relatively low wages, and poor government policy.

> They think Walt Disney is a company."
Laugh. Pretty shallow double-speak to say otherwise. Disney is wholly a grubby corporate entity nowadays.

Marketplace is just a software disaster imho. Equally as bad as the platform in general. But there's method in the madness. They make it such a wilderness so you have to keep coming back in order to find stuff. Imho anyway.

Hopefully this will give their coders/bosses something meaningful to focus on, rather than endlessly mangling the GUI as has been the case since, like it seems forever.

Totally agree.... But I can't imagine the new distro will come to much. Linux's fragmentation is just terminal :( And I have to say, as a long time KDE user, just how on earth did KDE make the task bar and desktop configuration process so bad? Really quite a feat.

Probably colided with space junk or rock.

Agree.. The weak repeat-any-crap of today's in-crisis media is a large part of the problem, and what Dump exploits to his advantage.

If "set ts=2" then You are the problem

The real question is - "How big is your tabstop?". Martial law is not too much for those that transgress "set ts=8"

Toys out the pram? - Linux kernel maintainer Ted Ts'o: "Here's the thing, you're not going to force all of us to learn Rust."

Apple have been viciously anti hobby programmer since Jobs left. Ken's a patient man if it's taken till now for him to flick the design-abomination that macos has become.

Picture frames on the desktop used to work great... Till I checked out last Ubuntu. The new "media frames" are just totally broken regards usability. I mean, free software is always full of snafus, but the degree and manner how they broke the picture frame, was quite impressive.

Amen :) But what a nasty POS piece of software it is... I think the problem is I'm a programmer, and kindof expect simple features like font resizing, games will run without updating at inconvenient times, and a close button that.. Closes.