TL, DR: To sum it all up: it’s a good idea to lean forward and move quickly when you’re caught in the rain. But careful: leaning forward increases Sh. To really stay drier, you’ll need to increase your speed enough to compensate for this.

But that’s the thing, I’ve seen “cold” being used, not “cool”, and I find it weird as hell.

This will be cool to make coworkers life hell, pushing sounds that only they can hear then call them crazy for imagining things.

I’m an horrible person.

Funny enough, I find Gnome to be more consistent and better thought than macOS… But that’s just me.

It looks like a chicken and egg problem: you don’t have commercial software available on Linux so people won’t use it, so you don’t have enough user base to justify the development of Linux versions. This won’t be solved unless a big company like Valve decides that Linux is the way and start solving basic issues like usability and installation of apps.

Sure, no problem. People get agitaded because it gets recommended over and over again, and gimp is a piece of software that does not deserve this kind of recognition, at all. It should either be completely revamped and get a new name, or completely forgotten in favor of better alternatives like Krita.

Oh,you want arguments? I’ll give you arguments:

• prehistoric interface.
• the stupid thing don’t have CMYK mode, the most basic thing needed if you work with graphics.
• lack of adjusting layers a.k.a. non-destructive editing.
• It will lock up and lose your work for apparently no reason. I lost a graphic due to a crash because I made the incredibly challenging action of changing a font. It also cannot handle big files at all.
• It’s so. Fucking. Slow.
• That stupid, infantile, childish, emotionally stunted name.

There’s more but I’m not in the mood of reliving the time I had with this turd.

“Oh but they have X features on the roadmap”. Yeah, and today is the year of Linux on desktop. I don’t care. I need a functional software now, not in some undisclosed future.

Gimp is a gigantic piece of shit that should never be recommended. Krita is the way, even Photopea is better.

I don’t know what version of XP you’re using, but this is not true in the last decade. The only times I reinstalled Windows was when I bought a bigger SSDs to my notebooks and figure to just do a clean one and play with the partitions a little. I never, ever, needed to reinstall because something was broken, even after updates. And my company still have notebooks running for about 6 years without needing a reinstall, which would be a huge headache.

Now on Ubuntu, Fedora, elementaryOS… I always had those implode for one reason or another, usually thanks to system updates. I got my DE dead by installing an app. I got it locked by uninstalling an app. And I wasn’t even doing fancy stuff like using the terminal to hack stuff.

I really wish I could migrate from Windows, specially now withbthis AI crap. The truth is, Linux is an usability nightmare and it still has a long, long way to go. Even macOS is better, and that’s saying a lot.

I find your lack of Battletoads disturbing.

I’ll go against the grain and give you a straight answer.

Yes. You should leave Israel and never go back.

You owe nothing to your country. If you have the possibility to live in a good European country, do it. You’re no martyr. You’re not billionaire rich. And unless you’re a really high rank offcial, an important politician, or want to sacrifice your entire life to a cause, you have no reason to waste your short life in pain.

We’re in a silly blue rock between a billion trillion systems, none of which care about you. Your existence is not even a blimp in the context of the universe. You’re not important at all. So why waste and suffer on behalf of a thing you have absolutely no control? Be happy, be comfortable, and make those around you happy and comfortable.

Life is pretty hard already, there’s no need to make it harder. Go and be happy.

Quick addendum: I’m not saying that because its Israel. I’m saying that in the context of any country. You owe nothing to it, a piece of land that you manage to be birthed on by being really lucky or unlucky. If you can rectify that and move to a better country to you, you should do it instead of suffering.

Got it, thanks!

OK… ELI3? Why is this a big deal, and what is the feature/bug fix?

I missed that, my bad.

…until a botched update or a bug sends everything to the cloud, MS makes an about face saying oops my bad, then say it was fixed.

You know that’s not what “native” means, right? Nevermind, me moron can not read.

Yep. To me it was the lack of a working fingerprint reader.

ELI5?

I used to use and love miniflux, but then they migrated to Golang and PostgreSQL, neither which are supported by my shared hosting (namecheap).

I use Freshrss now.

I use my phone to read books. Every micro break is a couple or more of paragraphs I read. I lost count of how many books I already finished instead of just doomscrolling…