I can’t take https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ seriously: Visual Basic on place 7 of most popular programming languages right after JavaScript? More popular than Go, Rust, PHP and SQL? Haskell is more popular than TypeScript (scroll down to see other places)? TIOBE isn’t a good metric, as they only check a few websites and a few engineers:

The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular web sites Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Bing and more than 20 others are used to calculate the ratings.

I know, but its still funny that the XBOne sold more than iconic N64 and Gamecube combined. I know this has to be seen in context, that’s why I said “just for furn”. Also this brings into perspective how insane the PS2 sold, where gaming was in less mainstream position than today. It was Sony with the PS1 and 2 who made gaming mainstream. The PS3 came out 6 years after the 2, while the Switch has a longer period of time without its successor (currently 7, we enter in 8th) and still could not catch up. It’s crazy how the PS2 sold.

Let’s see how many units are sold during holiday season. Also if the new Nintendo console gets out, then the old Switch will get (hopefully) a discount and it sells a lot more. Keep in mind the PS2 and DS sold even after their successor came out. Wikipedia lists the numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

PlayStation 2       Home        Sony        2000    >155 million
Nintendo DS         Handheld    Nintendo    2004    154.02 million
Nintendo Switch #   Hybrid      Nintendo    2017    143.42 million

And just for fun, people call the Xbox One a failure, but look and compare to some legendary consoles:

Xbox One            Home    Microsoft   2013    ~58 million
Super Nintendo      Home    Nintendo    1990    49.1 million
Nintendo 64         Home    Nintendo    1996    32.93 million
Nintendo GameCube   Home    Nintendo    2001    21.74 million

We don’t know. If I guess, it will be a full priced 69 Dollar game with 100 Dollar special edition for preorder. Other than that, Ubisoft is desperate and they said they won’t do this microtransaction shit they did before, so the integrity of the actual game is kept. I believe it when I see it, but that’s what they said. They even want to release it on Steam without the Ubisoft launcher on PC. Hell thats an improvement!

If the game truly has no bullshit, then I might check it out. Didn’t play an Assassins Creed since Black Flag on the Xbox 360. And I like Japan, so good oppurnity to hit me.

Even EndeavourOS and Debian are above Ubuntu. (For the last 6 months.) My theory is that most Ubuntu users don’t need to search in Distrowatch anyway, but people looking an alternative for Ubuntu do. Also the site counts Kubuntu and Lubuntu and all variants as separate distributions. My gut feeling says to me that most users first use for Ubuntu, even if they look for information about Kubuntu.

That would be an explanation without script kiddies. Just because I have a good heart and faith in the community. :p (my jokes get worse every day)

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half. :D

Some salty Ubuntu fans, because MX is the top listed distro on Distrowatch. It would be hilarious if this is the real reason. A man can only dream. (Edit: I’m only joking off course.)

I start to believe that Cloudflare is the one who does all the DDOS attacks.

There are some random accounts that do not look like the original creator. I highly discourage from such titles like this post, because we don’t know. “Ventoy” (creator) did not respond as far as I can see.

Edit: Even if it looks legitimate, it can be impersonating to gain trust. Don’t blindly trust random people from new accounts.

To be honest I found the comparison with the physical newspaper a bit out of place. Its always interesting to read the perspective from someone behind the scene. But I cannot comment here, because I never read newspaper (i’m old enough, just not interested).

But overall the video is entertaining and doesn’t do much bullshit or like that. I knew most of the stuff anyway, but didn’t know how bad Google got, because I don’t use Google (directly) since years. And certainly I don’t search for stuff to buy.

Not only: 1. Ads, 2. SEO, 3. AI

Well not using Google or at least not directly. Besides alternative search engines with their own engine, there are also meta search engines that utilizes Google and probably other unique engines as well. This does not solve all problems, but at least you don’t get the ads from Google and won’t get tracked by Google either (so searches are not limited to your region or what you searched already).

And in case of the open source meta engine Searx it will show results from multiple engines and display from which engine the results are. All without the ad nonsense. And while being able to configure it the way you want. My point is, you don’t have to use Google directly or at all.

Inkscape is a blast! I do some (simple) icons and the features are amazing. As for the new version 1.4:

• The new Filter Gallery is really nice, but usually I don’t use filters anyway.
• The Swatches Dialog makes my life easier too, but for whatever reason I don’t get the color names. It only shows the color codes s #669900. Anyone know where to set this?
• Unified Font Browser is also now up to standards and makes it a breeze to play around with fonts. No longer do I need to explicitly apply, just left click from the list will automatically update the canvas text.
• Shape Builder is really a cool functionality and I always love to use it. It saves so much time when needed, or can lead to unexpected cool effects. Now it works with raster images, to cut parts out. But they can’t be edited or Trace Bitmap unfortunately. The article talks about Release Clip and unlink clone, but I don’t know how to unlink clone. Hopefully this can be worked on to make it more seemless and easy. Shape Builder in general is OP (over powered).
• Dash Icon set is nice, I’m trying it out currently. Each icon is clear.

I really think Cosmic is the ideal desktop, at least from the idea what they want to do. But I don’t want rely on it as its not proven yet (I mean with first release). Maybe in a few years from now.

I have my gripes with Gnome, so won’t go into it now. Not very healthy doing that. :D I do think if you use Gnome as intended and without (or almost none) extensions, and use Gnome Apps for the most part, and don’t need to customize each and every corner, AND embrace the Gnome way of doing things, then I agree it is probably the best DE. But these are lot of ifs and buts. I don’t know if most people fall into this category, I certainly don’t.

And on top of it is how Gnome… well I said I won’t go into it now. :D I’m sure you are familiar with all of this.

No need to change the identity of having many options and customization in KDE. This is why we have a choice of multiple desktop environments (and window managers too). If there was no XFCE or Gnome as an alternative, or even the upcoming COSMIC desktop, then I would agree to slim down KDE.

I used Gnome 2, Unity and Gnome 3 all for multiple years and have experience in XFCE as well. Really KDE is not much more buggy than Gnome 3 in example. In fact, I had lot of problems in Gnome 3 such as always breaking extensions and other limitations as well, why I switched to KDE in the first place. I was about to go back to tiling window managers, but KDE works good. I encountered with every desktop environment and window manager problems like these. So to me KDE is not really worse.

This does not apply here, because this is not my workflow where I rely on a bug. Its literally how the system should work. Sorry, but this time this is total out of place comic reference. Edit: In example I do not do anything differently. It just did not save the value, which I set manually back every time. Its not a different workflow.

there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brightness

Oh no, please don’t! This release finally fixed the monitor brightness issue I had. It finally saves the brightness value and restores it after reboot. I had to set it manually after each boot before! Whatever regression you have, this fixed an issue for me. :D

Once a developer starts charging for his product, the code is no longer open-source–it’s proprietary, which falls under completely different licensing rules.

This is wrong. Open Source does not mean its free of charge. You can copy and fork the code and do whatever you want with it (including selling). And the developer has the right so sell the product too. This does not mean its proprietary, if the license and the code is Open Source.

Because people think Open Source means free of charge, is the problem why the Open Source developers have a hard time to make money and a living.

This has nothing to do with forcing to buy. Scam prices are prices, because they take advantage of a situation in need and inflate them for more profit. And defending any scammer makes you part of the problem. I grew up with imports of videogames since the 90s and know this kind of problem well.

My reply was about your nonsense sympathizing reply:

those sellers should just eat the import duty and sell it at a loss

Which you fabricated it for god knows what reasons. It is not about selling it at a loss, dumbass. Man people are sometimes stupid.

Depending on the needs. I have 32gb internal storage and its more than enough for me. But if I were recording lot of high quality videos and install lot of games, then this would be easily not enough anymore. But in today’s day and age a 512gb micro sd card is cheap. There is no problem for me being limited by space.

It’s insane to me how expensive the new top phones like iPhone are and how much space they offer. Man 500 Dollar for a 1TB internal space is insanity. For 500 Dollar I could buy a Steam Deck or Switch or Playstation 5, if I was interested into gaming and still would have the same iphone 16 Pro with 128gb storage instead. Yes I know its not the same when comparing stuff like that, but this shows how insane the prices are. And Apple can keep the price this high, because they don’t give you the option to use micro sd cards and you support this buy buying the most expensive version. So they keep doing it.

The maximum storage capacity for internal storage I would consider depends on the price. I would not limit myself to 32gb if the price for 1tb was the same. I’m not a heavy phone user and would consider 32gb with my next purchase, if it was considerably cheaper. But a micro sd card slot is required for that.