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Article said: The problem is the lack of a representative version of Linux.
Although I agree with that, he is clearly understimating procrastination, lazyness and resistance to abandon the comfort zone of the biggest part of the people
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"One 'standard' Linux" breaks fundamentally with the concepts of 'Mechanisms, not policy'. It tells the Linux guy that he no longer can create the user interface the way he thinks the best. The program logic cannot be structured the way he thinks the best. Maybe he will even have to adapt to some established professional vocabulary and set of concepts that he thinks inferior to his terminology and concepts of a professional field outside his own. He can't mandate his favorite file system. Can't make an entirely different menu style, selection style or text input style. Maybe he'll even be denied to promote his well justified technical arguments for 'letter to pål' being a different file from 'Letter to Pål' (or probably to his preference: 'lettertopal').
Windows killed the User Manual. That is what made Windows conquer the desktop. There was one way to set up a window and menu system. There was one way to open a file, to exit a program (vi, anyone?). One way to identify the program and version. One way to access online Help. After having tried two or three Windows programs, you could handle the rest of them without any User Manual.
That is what won the desktop. People felt familiar at once with all applications. No matter what you do to the Linux kernel and the desktop: Linux application developers will continue creating software the way they wish the software world to be. If it doesn't feel familiar to the user, it is the user's responsibility to familiarize himself with the developer's style and preferences. Windows never had that attitude, but said: To make the user feel at home, you should do it this way, do it so and such!
"the majority of desktop use cases these days are centered on the web browser". While that may be argued: If it was the case, who cares about which OS runs the browser? Run the same browser on any OS, and it appears the same to the user. What would then be the argument for replacing the underlaying OS, if the user won't notice anyway?
Today, there is a second reason - another one that the Linux open source community won't like: As soon as you step outside of software development, a large proportion of advanced applications are rather mediocre. Office tools? Half-done attempts at cloning competitors, with no clue about why this and that solution was chosen, won't cut it. Photo editing? To do it well, you must know the tasks as a photographer, not as a programmer. Sound and music editing? Just the same. Document editing? The same. Even if you go to hobbyist software like genealogy: If you have never actually traced your ancestry back to a single forefather that none of your living relatives knew about, you are missing an essential qualification for making a genealogy program. To really push it: You can't even make a program for managing an archive of cooking recipes in a functional way unless you have significant kitchen experience.
As a software developer, I have been using Linux (and earlier: various other *nix-es) at work, and seen high quality tools for software development. At home or in most non-SW-dev-environments: Sorry. The applications from the open-source community are much to obviously created by outsiders who do not know the real tasks and issues. The tools "don't feel right in the hand", even when they have all the functional check boxes checked. Those (few) that cut it are developed in professional application environments, usually far off from idealistic open-source activists.
An essential reason why Windows have retained desktop hegemony: Hadn't MS developed VS, Windows would have been dead today. VS has allowed developers to bring professionals into the software design process, and to some degree allowed professionals to take control over the software design process. Non-programmer professionals have, in the general case, had a much higher influence on and control over successful (non-SW-development) applications, compared to idealistic open source projects based on Linux.
If you switch to Linux, interoperability with other users/environments is always risky. Converting old media projects to Linux tools may be difficult, may be impossible. Moving document bases may discover a lot of quirks. You may frown upon 'legacy', but it is a reality. It is not sufficient to provide some tool with all boxes checked, it must both "feel good in the hand" and the benefits must, in a reasonable time frame, exceed the cost of legacy handling.
Outside the area of software development, this is on the most part not satisfied for any of my non-professional activities. I have tried to run dual setups at home, with Linux for my hobbyist programming. The advantages of Linux tools over VS, and the "advantages"  of C++ over C# has never been enough to keep the home Linux installation running for very long before I realize that for home projects, I never prefer it. Just like two years ago, five years ago and ten years ago.
None of this is related to the choice of a distro. Even with a "perfect" distro, the problems of Linux remains.
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His theory assumes that the web-based software is as good as the desktop based versions. From an office application support standpoint, this is simply not true.
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Researchers have discovered a new and powerful transient execution attack called 'Inception' that can leak privileged secrets and data using unprivileged processes on all AMD Zen CPUs, including the latest models. I guess you better not sleep on this one
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As long as they do not plant any malware idea...
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Internet users can block GPTBot and keep their site out of ChatGPT. How not to join the hive mind
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To join, or not to join... I think I'll choose a joint.
The Verge wrote: Internet users can block GPTBot and keep their site out of ChatGPT.
Correction. IF then keep their site out of future iterations of ChatGPT, but... if google's cached pages are available for it, I think they are screwed anyways
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Quote: OpenAI's question-answering bot, ChatGPT, isn't smart enough for the team at Stack Overflow, who today announced a temporary ban on answers generated by the AI bot because of how frequently it's wrong.
Stack Overflow said it was withholding a permanent decision on AI-generated answers until after a larger staff discussion, but was taking action now due to fears that ChatGPT could be "substantially harmful" to both the org and its users
Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' • The Register[^]
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They would lose the joy of closing questions themselves... 
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Couldn't compete with the attitude and ego of the humans that do answer the questions.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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They also have a history of saying no to humans who have solved the same problem and attempt to provide the solution to open questions.
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Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose
ChatGPT and Stack Overflow teaming up? Classic case of AI asking AI for relationship advice. Can't wait for their joint therapy sessions with Dr. Alexa!
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"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Graeme_Grant wrote: Can't wait for their joint therapy sessions with Dr. Alexa!
Will it be worse than asking Dr. Google?
Because there are a bin % of people trusting more Google than the medics.
And I know, there are bad professionals in every job, but still... I have been at my doctor (which is one of the bests I know) and hear from the waiting room how a patient started yelling at him because he said something different that she didn't like and was totally opposite what she read in whatevery forum she used... we (other patients) boo'ed her as she got out.
Alone with that woman, he already earned heaven... his patience is bigger than Job's
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The engine would drastically shorten trips to the moon and Mars "Prepare for flip and burn"
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By 2026 it should be an ER (Electric Rocket) model, hope they have enough batteries on board... 
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This is going to bring a new level to "radioactive rain"
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It could be a handy way to make sure your words and punctuation are just right. Your searching wrongly
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I wonder how that will affect some members in the Q&A that does not use translations, oh wait... they don't Google anything at all. 
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It is not unknown for Microsoft to change the system requirements for its software, and this is something that applies to Windows 11. Not that Intel inside
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They have to change it to conform to their updates, there is nothing wrong with their updates, it's all on the processors that does not understand the updates man! 
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I guess the 10 or so folks still running Xeon processors will be out of luck. Every single processor on this list is an Intel Xeon processor.
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Prompt engineering is still telling a computer what to do. Studying large language models and the limits of generative AI will keep your job security. The AI won't take your job, but what about starting thermonuclear war?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The AI won't take your job, but what about starting thermonuclear war?
There's a vector for that.
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Or a movie, or a game...
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