Rats' habit of destroying their own habitats because they are fun to chew on is an uncomfortably good metaphor for some things about humans
General impressions of Pop! OS or however it is you're supposed to render that brand name (I think there's a _ in there somewhere)
- It's absolutely insane how scaling UI for a 4k display is not a solved problem
- I remember when Linux systems had the most aggressive customization out of every OS, even in the for-babies distros like Ubuntu, but on this thing you don't even get desktop widgets?
- can't emphasize enough how much I want desktop widgets
- like we are living in the Widget Era now. Displays are enormous. Maximizing windows is awful now. I should be able to put a clock and the weather on my desktop for when I'm monotasking. Jesus.
- There are only two gtk themes, light and dark.
- If you're going to give me light and dark mode for god's sake let me auto-switch between them at dawn/dusk, that's what light and dark mode is for imo.
- wtf is a 'flatpak'. get off my lawn.
- Linux not adopting mac's way of inputting non-ascii characters on an English keyboard continues to disgust me
- I think the fact that I can download and run Cyberpunk 2077 and it runs well (at least in the 10 minutes of play that I did) relative to the Windows version is probably massively more important than any UI gripe I have
- Lol this thing can't... wake up my monitor? Like if my display isn't turned on and set to the right input when I switch my desktop on, it will simply never detect or connect to the display? Surely something must be configured wrong somewhere
- But also I couldn't wake up the display after it slept the display due to being idle for five minutes so I do wonder. Has anyone had similar issues?
The main reason for this post is to attract the attention of Linux Enthusiasts who will tell me how to solve all my problems so I don't have to spend time googling. I know you all. I used to be one of you. I know your ways.
yknow working with embedded stuff where you have to build huge isos every few minutes is nice because i get paid to scroll on cohost while occasionally checking if nix build is done
the thing that drives me insane is all the people patiently explaining that spacex rockets are "supposed to explode" because this is "rapid iteration" so they're just trying to throw shit up in the air as fast as possible to see how it breaks
like. no! you are not supposed to apply software development methodology to things that can explode. that is very much not a thing you should do. you should not 'rapidly iterate' on space rockets. software engineers should have to undergo deprogramming before being allowed to work in other fields.
"Move fast and break things" isn't even actually good in software! This is all dumbass ideology from dumb fucking assholes who have convinced programmers to eat shit and like it and are trying to extend that to all engineering disciplines
