Of course, it would be nice if we could get a native version of Office 365. My needs are mostly covered with LibreOffice but I need sometime the real MS Office to test compatibility with some documents supplied by my clients.

Other than that, there are still some games that won't run on Linux, mostly because the kernel-level anticheat malware prevents that.

There's also some niche apps that only offer versions for Windows or Mac or Android/iPhone, but not for Linux. My digital signature with SignCloud has no app for Linux.

Using 140.9-esr, Firefox is noticeably better in my laptop. Not exactly on power consumption but in these parameters:

• Firefox is natively compiled from source and packaged for my distribution. I have to get chrome as a precompiled binary, perhaps not as efficiently as if it were done for my distro (Slackware)
• In Firefox I have the "Take Screenshot" command at the right-click menu. This is a killer feature, seriously.
• In Firefox I can use the full uBlock origin. In Chrome I can only use the neutered one.

These reasons make Firefox the undeniably better choice for my setup. I still have a natively compiled Chromium for those cases where Chrome is required.

Running Slackware-current, using kernel 6.18.13. With a SSD, I'm seeing regular boot times of 12-15 secs, from GRUB2 to SDDM login screen. After supplying credentials, add perhaps 3 seconds more to a fully functional KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop.

It should be noted that Slackware is a systemd-free distribution which uses a simple BSD-like init system. I point out this because early on in systemd's development, one of the selling points was that "it would enable you to have faster boot times".

I will always recommend KDE Plasma as the best desktop environment ever, hands down.But I deeply regret this instance of systemd creep into it, excluding not only the xBSDs, but all other Unices and even systemd-clean distros such as Slackware (the oldest continously maintained Linux distribution). Even more so when it was some time ago where the KDE homepage asked the question: is UNIX ready for the desktop? and described itself as:

KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.

Well, no longer, it seems. One would have expected such systemd creep from the GNOME folks, not from KDE.

No, it does not -- if it is plugged in with USB-C, it works just like a regular wired keyboard.

- Good battery life
- Good UI, no bloat apps
- 3.5 mm audio jack (so far, essential. I won't buy any device without it)
- Low weight
- Resistance to drops and impacts
- Availability of slide-out physical keyboards preferred.

Game studios spend increasingly more time and resources by providing extremely complex graphics that require a discrete GPU, but are unplayable on PCs with integrated GPUs. They spend more, while locking out a vast source of potential revenue.

If your latest game requires a dual RTX 9000 with a liquid nitrogen cooling system and 3 kW of power usage for the highest settings, be my guest, but do not lock out potential users of your game at the lower end. In doing so, you're saying to millions of would-be gamers "I don't need/want your money".

I'd really love to know how they will ensure that their product is free from trans fats.

Buy and install a single game and you'll download more than 40GB. Didn't BG3 break 100GB on its install?

40 GB is too low an estimate. Newer games are hugely bloated. RDR2 with all DLC is over 100GB too. AC:Origins was originally 45 GB, but now an "update" puts it on 70 GB territory. AC: Valhalla, Borderlands 3, Death Stranding, Far Cry 6 (170 GB), Watch Dogs: Legion, The Last of Us (part I)... all of them are extremely bloated. Downlad a few of them and you're toast under T-Mobile's plan.

I think grandparent refers to bottom, which is a similar system monitor for the terminal which is indeed written in Rust.