Cygwin? There are better alternatives these days...

The code is not secret...

I suspect they didn't want to give more information because they didn't want to be limited by what they would provide and be free to change things whenever they see fit.

Looks like a race condition to me. Maybe it's by design due to Linux imposed limitations but it's something that may be exploitable by malware.

In kernel mode things are not as easy as you may think.

It should be: "Germany has too small storage capacity"

I'm in the EU and I didn't participate in that survey and I didn't even heard about it after the fact.
Only the crazy people that feel strongly about this mobilized themselves through facebook and whatnot and voted. By "crazy" I mean that they really feel this is something of the utmost importance for some reason that I can't comprehend.

For me, I wish there was an option for "we'll just stick with option X forever and forbid anyone from wasting time discussing it again", where X is arbitrary.

There's a set of windows components I can install on my win11 box called "SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing support". You can just install the client, if you wish.

I mean, if it doesn't work for him there are alternatives. He's not like a slashdot that doesn't use windows and complains anyway, he's a journalist, right?

Chromebooks are much more cost-effective in this use case.

All the drama started when microsoft bought github. And I don't think you're right:
https://github.com/Microsoft/w... (from the same thread I linked that you apparently didn't read).

The same guy made a huge drama when Microsoft bought GitHub:
https://twitter.com/jamiebuild...
https://github.com/Microsoft/w...

Firefox's market share was already bad enough before XUL was dropped. If anything, you could argue that keeping XUL for that long took market share away.

Ironically, Gnome's VFS is GPL and therefore less free.

Same here. I dread the day it dies and I have to choose something else.
Yesterday some of my friends were taking pictures and were particularly praising the small live video thingy taken together with the photo on iOS and I simply thought about what else they have been missing these last years (two and half, I think).

It's been there for a while...