My experience with Linux is something like 4 years of Ubuntu then 8 years of Arch. What kept me in was stability (in the sense that I don't need to clean install every 6 months) and the wiki which allowed me to learn, a lot.

Although what I sometime don't enjoy, is the random maintenance burden : every now and then some package you rely on may change how it works (config format, cli interface). You can fix this later by keeping an outdated version but it will eventually need a bit of work. That's something I don't mind on my work computer, but on my personal one ... I just don't want more work coming at me when I get home and want to play games.

I'd say the best contribution is they managed to build a mainstream commercial service on top of all of this!

I can think of worse, "Finally a proof that AI reached singularity" for example

The issue for me is that coming from pirating as a teen (no way my parents were paying for any digital entertainment), I got used to "choose what I want to watch" first and then finding a solution on how to watch it.

Streaming platforms don't solve this problem at all, and even when you subscribe to everything some must-watch movies are not on any platforms.

Well, let's be polite and say it's not for everyone. TCB13 isn't the only person to really love this DE 😛

I don't get the enthousiasm either, there is always to much information for me on the screen and inconsistent UI all over the place 🤷

I really enjoy using systemd and wasn't an aware linux user before it started getting adopted, but you message really reads like a bad commercial 😅 "begin today your journey through..."

The wiki is what makes it really hard for me to move out. This masterpiece is where I learned 70% of what I know about linux systems 🤷

From the link :

Algorithmic systems, which will typically involve the processing of data to produce outputs and/or make decisions, are playing an increasingly important role within many organisations and across a broad range of sectors. Importantly, these systems are designed, developed, deployed, used, and overseen by people, and can have far reaching implications.

I think this definition doesn't really answer your question, but I assume we talk about companies that make automated strategical decisions ?

Same after Windows 8.1 ! 🥳

I've had to use Windows 11 a tiny bit for work and it was the most painful experience I had for a while. Most apps I used on there had obvious bugs, like the VPN chosen by my company requiring me to reboot every time it goes to sleep ...

I love how higher IP rating is always the argument, it looks like everybody in this planet is doing daily deep diving and needs its smartphone to do that 😅

I love the direction this is going, I've been using i3/sway for years and gnome apps recently became awesome in tiling mode because of their responsiveness. If this is implemented this could definitely get me back on gnome 👍

I'm surprised to see arch on your list, I know everything runs in containers now but arch seems way too unstable O_o

By unstable I don't mean "buggy", but "you will have to adapt to new major version of package XXX or you can't fetch updates anymore, so no security patches anymore".