My parents never noticed. It's only younger generations who are heavily invested in the branding.
Actual usage is much the same.
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Very different. Ggplot is for plotting data using a layered approach in R. Gnuplot is more like a plotting toolkit in itself.
Ggplot looks better with less effort typically. It's comparable to seaborn.
Wireguard (or tailscale) would be best here.
I think the parents suggestion was to not use it.
However, it's a bit like avoiding water on a boat given how pervasive the cancer is.
Most of the MS suite is pretty awful. OG OneNote was a good idea. VSCode is ok, just quite slow. Oh LSP is fantastic, I believe that was developed by MS.
The Office Suite and PowerBI are terrible, by 2025 standards it's glossy trash.
Yep. mid size business is the best place to be for engineers. You get your pick Of the lot all without HR 🙃
Devils advocate. The m{1,4} chips are nice.
Every OS just mentioned can be updated, no support needed? Just overlay the next kernel over the last and all these distros provide a pathway for that.
Moreover, Arch, Void, Gentoo etc are rolling, so no loss of support.
I figure a multi-million dollar company could do the equivalent of exactly that.
Steam Deck is a step in the right direction but a bit too big
Well that's great, airvpn has worked well for me in my torrent docker container and I recommend it for that purpose.
That's a fair point. But it also depends on the application as well.
To use the example from earlier, good luck getting Emacs 25 to run on Windows 11.
...but maybe another perspective is that it works really well with Windows because they prioritise backwards compatibility at the expense of development time and they can do that because they're a large company and as a large company the community gets a very little say in the way that their operating system works.
Linux is your operating system. It's community driven and community developed and one of the expenses of that is that users are going to need a higher degree of technical capacity. The trade-off is that you get more privacy, and more say.
However, I believe that it's achievable for most users.
I mean this sincerely, how can I help? I'm not an expert but i did teach this to university students and I'm a big advocate of privacy. What would you like to see?
Yeah I've installed heaps of old apps, it depends on dynamic vs static libraries etc but some people still use Emacs 25...
I have lost power whilst updating, can be a nuisance depending in the distro, but snapshots (zfs and btrfs both work well for me) have been life saving.
Mac and windows simply don't have a lot of quality of life features. Working with them is painful. As self a documenting systems they are fantastic though, however, when I was younger we had things called schools that served to address that gap, these have fallen out of favour in modern times.
I'm not trying to be unhelpful. My advice would be to steer into the terminal. Bite the bullet. I use arch and alpine for my servers but Fedora would be fine (but SELinux can be a pain with bund mounts)
Probably just go with Fedora with btrfs for snaps. It has lots of support and is a common choice for servers