I also recommend everyone a book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century”

In case it makes a difference to someone, it’s a pretty short book.

The last few OS releases will continue to get security updates, but new versions of the OS won’t support those models at all.

They don’t “legitimately believe” anything.

where linux

where linux

I agree with this, but in open source there’s an extra layer of complexity: the “I don’t care about market share” dev attitude that’s sometimes admirable and sometimes frustrating.

Agreed, it’s such a poor summary of the article that I can’t tell if it’s an intentional strawman argument.

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Be so bold.

Same deal here, with years of Xfce and MATE in between. (And a couple of months of GNOME 3, so I could know for sure it wasn’t for me.)

client side decorations

Ah yes, the developers’ dumping ground. App menus bad, five miscellaneous buttons (and also a menu) good and m i n i m a l.

https://lemmy.ml/post/13801726

Nah, it’s these three.

That man was Adam Osborne, creator of the Osborne 1

Hah! All good, I know exactly what that one feels like!

Nope, just saying I don’t use any transparency for my panels. I don’t mind it overlapping and hiding part of the window bar because the important stuff is all on the left side of the bar.

I use Plasma with a similar concept as yours, with two bars serving the same purposes.

My vertical icons-only bar goes in the lower-left, has chunkier, more glance-able icons (since pixels on the x-axis are plentiful) and this bar reserves its space from maximized windows. Think part WindowMaker/NextStep and part Unity.

Then a fully-opaque longer horizontal bar in the top-right with tray icons, a clock and a few hardware toggle widgets. Critically, like yours this toolbar stays on top of all windows (to make better use of my y-axis pixels), and my window decorations have left-aligned buttons and titles so max-height windows rarely have their titles cut off by the bar.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here. (I wasn’t the one who downvoted you, by the way.)

Windows doesn’t have sudo, Windows has a thing they’re calling sudo.

Sorry, that was the best link I could find at that moment. Since the word “ubuntu” means something like “humanity towards others,” Canonical really leaned into that concept with their tagline “Linux for human beings” in the early days. This involved shipping some controversial wallpaper images and using less risque shots from the same photo shoot on things like the CD-ROM cover.