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The author declares that...

"All a company needs to do is provide a homogenous/coherent user experience, smooth the rough edges, and not be as scummy as Google, Apple, or Microsoft and they will win."

... but as far as I can see that's Canonical and they're a long way from owning the desktop. Snaps, which the author lauds, are their thing! The author laments that Ubuntu didn't install the media codecs, but they have a panel during install asking if you want to install commercial stuff including such things. That could be more prominent, admittedly.

The real problem is that there's just so much commercial software out there and most of it runs on Windows or (often rather grudgingly) on Mac. It's been an issue for decades.

Back in the mid 90s I was working with "Windows for Workgroups" at the same time as messing with Linux. Linux was enormously superior at that point; pre-emptive multi-tasking, memory protection, high quality scheduling, and an excellent networking stack versus a very clunky OS balanced precariously on top of DOS.

But Linux didn't have Microsoft Word, it didn't have Excel, it didn't come pre-installed if you bought a PC, and it couldn't run MS DOS software. Windows won, and once Windows NT was out it was a much more even race even on the technical qualities.

The best thing that ever happened to desktop Linux was the commercialisation of the web, because it effectively made a huge swathe of important software usable on Linux. This is sufficiently the case that I've been able to use Linux (usually Ubuntu) at work for several of my recent gigs, but I still can't use it at my current day job (for example) because the miscellany of Data Loss Prevention software doesn't run on it but does run on Windows or MacOS.

I'm not sure Linux will ever "win" the desktop, though the share of desktop might increase in proportion to the dwindling of that market versus mobile devices.
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> All a company needs to do is provide a homogenous/coherent user experience, smooth the rough edges, and not be as scummy as Google, Apple, or Microsoft and they will win.

This is what you're against, right?
Now that the this geni is out of bottle, China will have quickly the alternative counter part very quickly that openai. Guess LLM works now just as well in Chinese as in English?
Can they recover the booster back to shore for an investigation?
that's my experience with multiple silicon valley startups in general. Sell what they believe they can have in the future against what a competitor sells today.

I questioned it, but to an extent its somewhat how even larger companies behave (i.e. not uncommon fo them to do a fundamentally non functional demo of a feature that they hope to have out at some point in the future)
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I couldn't even tell you what Windows 11 is capable of. For my usage, windows has basically been the same feature experience since XP. UI changes, and annoyances, sure, but additional features? The only major change I have noticed and can recall since XP is WSL.
I can see the guys at System76 filling in this gap. They have excellent hardware and their own PopOS is really user friendly for newcomers. Gaming support is also pretty decent paired with Steams Proton.

The problem with onboarding people to use Linux is like trying to convince an iPhone user to use an Android device. Many people are stuck in their respective ecosystem and are used to familiarity, they're not going to switch to linux unless you can get over the burden of switching.

In my anecdotal experience, I installed Linux for a teacher of mine and he had some issues with getting used to it but his kids quickly figured it out and weren't used to Windows or MacOS which made it significantly easier. Putting Linux computers in students hands is honestly the best way to increase adoption and Chromebooks are a perfect example of this.
>However, I think the author vastly overestimates the current state of the art by conflating Andriod and ChromeOS with Linux.

>Yes these are technically Linux distros, but their entire environment is build on a stack (JVM or Web) whose purpose is to make the fact that it's a Linux distro as irrelevant as possible.

When the most successful consumer Linux distros are the ones that try to be as not-Linux as humanely possible, maybe the problem lies somewhere that many do not want to admit?
Nah. It's only available in the iOS app by the vendor.

There are no decent English articles about it either, at least none that have had any direct access to it.

And on Twitter, everyone is reposting the same videos (as taken from this homepage).

Not even Chinese blogs are talking about it yet.
You can but you can end in prison.

This is not like USA were you shoot anyone who enters in your property.

If you harm this people you surely will have to face penal consequences.

Why? Because then, people will do the same with a small family which can not pay rent this month, after you increased the price to the double because you want to rent to tourists.

The solution is simple: use your properties. Would you let your car with the keys inside? No. Don't let your houses unused. It's is an offense to people who want to work and live. Properties shouldn't be a business nor a speculative means.
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How is this readable?
The "simple measures" you name are things that require political will, and America doesn't have it. That's why these things are infeasible: American voters have to want them, and have to elect people who will enact them. They're not going to do that, outside of a few select municipalities (where obesity probably isn't a big problem anyway, because the people there are wealthy and educated). Even worse, America is almost certainly going to elect Trump for a 2nd term; the country is swinging conservative, so these "simple measures" you name definitely aren't happening any time soon. Look at NYC for instance: the Democratic state governor just scrapped their congestion charge program, so living in blue states and electing Democrats isn't any kind of guarantee of positive change either.
I had trouble with it, but when Ubuntu Wayland support appeared it pretty much solved the problem. Curious as to whether the parent post tried before or after that switch over. Prior to Ubuntu+Wayland it really was unusably bad with mixed screen resolutions for me.
Should we ask ourselves whether we should marvel that this stuff has (not just (,maybe-likely,)) ((non-software, maybe-likely,)) engineering applications X)
Reminds me of the "We Stand Tall" Scientology video.
> Desktop Linux is an untapped gold mine! All a company needs to do is provide a homogenous/coherent user experience, smooth the rough edges, and not be as scummy as Google, Apple, or Microsoft and they will win.

Ah, yes. Everything must be monetized.

Very well then, let us ask what is the business model for this monetized desktop Linux?

* People who already use Linux won't suddenly decide to start paying money for support that they never relied on before.

* People who were never into Linux before aren't going to suddenly start jumping ship just because they can choose to pay for a supported distro. Let's face it, most people don't like spending their time thinking about what OS to run, and maybe that's even healthier, since the more I learn about computing, the more I realize it all kind of sucks in one way or another.

* If the idea is sell proprietary software to people on Linux desktops, it's not impossible (as shown by success stories like Steam and Matlab.) However, it also needs to compete with the ecosystem of free software, as well as web-based apps which are inherently OS-agnostic, along with the pre-existing markets like Steam.

* Before our glasses get too rose-tinted, let's remember that although Linux works fine on desktop, it's not easy. You either need to go the Ubuntu route of being opinionated and one-size-fits-all, or you need to accept that the flexibility of Linux makes support difficult. I've been using Linux exclusively for 15 years, so I'm used to fiddling with all the knobs required to keep it ticking over smoothly. I would thoroughly resent any pressure anyone would put on me to change the way I do things. On the other hand, I would never suggest to a newbie that they should try doing things the same way as me. In fact, I advise against it. "Kids, just try ubuntu first. If you like it, great. Come and talk to me again when you're sure you really want to be a weirdo."
In 2017 Apple had a vulnerability in Mac OS Sierra that allowed anyone to unlock a computer using the user name “root” and no password.

In 2018 Apple became the first company to reach a market capitalisation of one trillion dollars.

So — in answer to “How the heck does a bug with a single quote make it past QA, let alone crash an app?”

Humans aren’t really as clever or discerning as we claim to be.
The hardest thing to solve here is standardizing the ecosystem of freedom. What's "lovely" about this ecosystem is that nobody cares and nobody tells you how to run your desktops. Want something lightweight? Go with TinyCore or Puppy. Into gaming? Check out SteamOS. Home theater? Use Kodi. Focused on security? Kali is the way to go.

I even built my own distros for my product to automate endoscopy machine interfaces. You can build whatever you want to solve whatever problems you have.

Trying to solve this problem is like merging all the transcontinental countries into one union called USSR.

I really admire any billionaire or community that continues Mark Shuttleworth's effort to raise awareness about Linux desktops.
Where's the incentive in any of that? Pour money in linux desktop development for what? (So we can have linux desktop... sooner?)

If there were any money to be made in linux desktop, it would have already happened imo, or otherwise the cost-opportunity is still to high.

If anything, more than a gold mine, looks like a gold sink to me

And don't get me wrong, been on arch for 7 years and i've long since ditched win. But I still don't think there's any meaningful incentives for companies to push for linux desktop.
> "To fix this fragmentation of package formats, two new formats have been introduced...Snap and Flatpak"

The Nix package manager trounces these two options utterly and completely for anything that's not GUI-based, and even for desktop software if you're prepared to go all-in with NixOS.
This is a nice project, but terrible to use for legal text specifically.

Legal text uses its own jargon because the specific meaning of specific words in contracts has been exhaustively argued in court, so any lawyer knows exactly what they mean, and very lengthy court cases on this can be avoided.

For an example, this license lacks the word "irrevocable". This is not a small oversight, and makes using anything provided under this license legally dangerous even if you agree with everything else in it.
There are no "consumers" who "buy" basic research.

You're talking about fundamental research into basic scientific questions as if it were the same as potato-chip manufacturing.
Aye, but where only openai gets to decide what is hallucination.
>robust system state attestation (both local and remote) against attackers with physical access

Phrases like this give me the shivers, as it translates into "mandatory surveillance by some authority telling me what I can and can't do with my computer".

TPM is an evil concept. Physical access should be final.
I think it has to do with the desire to consume organic content.

We're currently live in an SEO-optimised hell where everything is monetized. Years of wading through this swill has subconciously made us seek out spontaeneous, unplanned interactions and content, which seem more humane.

Thoughtless social media comments, quips, and many of the funny tweets are prime examples of stuff that is done for the fun of it, without any "ulterior motive" in mind, and refreshing to come across.
ChromeOS is clearly making moves to being more than just a frontend for Chrome with PWAs and an Android subsystem people only use under duress. Google wouldn't have added support for Linux applications and Steam if they wanted to keep it like it was.
That's not a diversity issue, that's a "people not playing the game" issue, leeches can have any skin color or country of origin. I know white trash that are more of a burden to society than some of my immigrant friends (what HN call "expats" because they somehow think they're not migrants)
Thanks for the update.

Subgroups may seem like a minor feature, but they can unlock huge performance. I recently had a 10x perf boost with a very basic subgroup trick to let neighboring pixels collaborate on some expensive operations in fragment shaders. And there's another 5x in there waiting for me to implement some subgroup quad tricks.
I've been using Amethyst so far, but I immediately liked Aerospace more. The main gripe I have with Amethyst is that it throws windows in a very sluggish and unreliable fashion. With Aerospace, windows get moved to different workspaces/monitors in a flash and the move never fails. I also like how it completely ditches MacOS built-in workspaces, which, as the author argued, is rather unsatisfactory, in favor of its own virtual workspace solution, which finally makes handling a multi-monitor setup a bearable and even somewhat enjoyable experience.

Actually, in my Linux days I moved from i3 (which Aerospace is based on) to xmonad (which Amethyst is based on), but on MacOS Aerospace just feels quite better. None of the 3 WMs on MacOS comes close to what a true WM on Linux can offer, but I guess Aerospace is as good as it can get.
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Why it is a heavy burden for a citizen?

(I'm not an US citizen, but even I have SSN).
They need an LLLM?
It’s problematic because the LLM is describing another person’s scan and not the one presented to it. It should at least present the other scan as workings and the percentage difference between the two. Finding a similar looking scan is very useful no doubt but if the result is hallucinated that it is less so. Dangerous even. There is no confidence percentage and there should be.
If by “not woke enough” you mean racist, sexist, or homophobic, that what I usually assume too.
Technically yes - but when it comes to attacks not really. If someone wants it, you have much easier and faster techniques.
They've been verified to be fairly accurate:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2989081.2989088

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3177754
Thanks, I must have read through the document to hastily.
Agreed. One of the reasons I use Linux and other open source software, is not to be dependent or beholden to a single company. I can't count the amount of times I experienced or read about others experiencing a company doing a rug pull on users of their software by either changing direction, abandoning the product, or changing licensing terms.

I do donate monthly to a number of open source projects because I like their work, and want them to stick around. But even if they don't, as long as the software is there and the user base is there, someone will pick up the baton and move it forward, even if it is at a slow pace.
This is great! I've been using Amethyst so far, but I immediately liked Aerospace more. The main gripe I have with Amethyst is that it throws windows in a very sluggish and unreliable fashion. With Aerospace, windows get moved to different workspaces/monitors in a flash and the move never fails. I also like how it completely ditches MacOS built-in workspaces, which, as the author argued, is rather unsatisfactory, in favor of its own virtual workspace solution, which finally makes handling a multi-monitor setup a bearable and even somewhat enjoyable experience.

(I couldn't use yabai on my work computer as it requires disabling SIP, which the author of Aerospace explicitly argues against, which I find reasonable.)

Actually, in my Linux days I moved from i3 (which Aerospace is based on) to xmonad (which Amethyst is based on), but on MacOS Aerospace just feels quite better. None of the 3 WMs on MacOS comes close to what a true WM on Linux can offer, but I guess Aerospace is as good as it can get.
> It sees all four sides at once [...]

In human cubing competitions, humans have a few seconds to look at the cube before the timer starts.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LL8pN96MHZs
I got a Windows computer for my six year old because we have to have Roblox and Roblox Studio.

I was stunned by how much clutter, hassle, and adware I had to fight through just to achieve a simplisticity I take for granted with a standard Linux install.

With the tsunami of AI clutter coming for Windows, I suspect desktop linux will finally, after all these decades, have its day.
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If they genuinely solve self-driving, then it seems like it. Tesla three years ago didn't have any competition and now they do, so big differentiation is needed, and FSD would be it.
This is not like this.

The point is, if you break anything to enter you used force and it's much worse.

But if it's your residence, your house, and at least you used once a year is "morada", and then they are intruders and they are breaking the law.

It doesn't matter if they change the lock or anything like this. If mossos doesn't do anything, which would amaze me, then call the other forces, like civil, local o nacional.

If you let a house unused all year long or during years, it's your problem. I don't know what's the purpose of owning a house and not using it, in this case, I would appreciate that someone breaks in to live there with pacifically, this people exist.
> ... but as far as I can see that's Canonical and they're a long way from owning the desktop

So far I see Redhat owns GNOME and all the base systems, and they already do own the linux desktop. Good so.
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I was talking about the website the article is on, not HN. I'm well aware that HN is run by Y Combinator. It's in the URL.

That said, squatting unused housing is literally "disrupting the housing market" by eliminating the waste of critical resources. It's upsetting the market and breaking established rules, sure, but so are AirBnB, Uber, generative AI and cryptocurrencies.

If you think about the founding mythology of "Hacker culture", squatting fits right in there alongside the stories of defrauding telephone companies with "phreaking" and other "adventures". Except of course for the obvious class difference between hacking your Ivy League university's computer lab and having to squat an empty building because the alternative is being homeless.
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It seems some sentences are totally trimmed off though. But otherwise it is really a sweet, sweet eye candy.
Its not their fault.

They are competing against large roving armies of pure scum at Microsoft, who land up at the door of whichever large corp or govt org that decide to switch, with unmatchable discounts, freebies, bribes, lies and threats to ensure their rent collecting empire is defended at all cost.

The reason Microsoft wins much more than tech is related to tactics used in sales, financial engineering, demand engineering(PR/marketing/advertising) etc.

The EU looked like it was going to do something about the Desktop Market by targeting Microsoft Desktop domination specifically with the Digital Markets Act but what they ended up with some weakass shit about allowing people to uninstall some of the preinstalled apps Microsoft ships.

If Big Tech has to be disintermediated the first step is to understand there is lot more going on outside the realm of Tech that needs to be disintermediated. And a pure one dimensional technology based approach has no chance of making a dent.
I love Costco here in the UK, but they don't do tech.

AFAICT their Android app is just an awfully implemented webview, I can't change the email address associated with the account, they can't link purchases made with my card in-store to those on the website, the list goes on.
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Agreed, just yesterday I was researching APIs in this area. Still, it’s a different criticism.
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There are couple of these kinds of questions already, with mostly dead links.

This is an another round :)
Linux desktop efforts need a BDFL.

Too many duplicated efforts, the wayland migration while needed was a complete mess, and actually the worst time I had using Linux since like 2005. This kind of complete breakage of user experience is unimaginable even in MacOS and it's hostile approach to power users.

I think otherwise it's going to continue being a frustrating two steps forward one step back.
I did not dot share this story to gain sympathy, this is simply what happened.

I'd be caution against shifting over to victim blaming, like he asked for it. Rings a bell?
> Ah, yes. Everything must be monetized.
> Very well then, let us ask what is the business model for this monetized desktop Linux?

On point. Not every (sound) technical decision is monetizable.

The article completely handwaves that "gold mine" statement.