foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussWatch a casual users use a website or program, and for the most part they stumble their way through.Only via good design do they stumble in useful directions.Developers have better models how the program/website is arranged and so don't need good design as much, and see overt styling as noise.(I spoke in absolutes for brevity. Exceptions will apply.)
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussI used Qubes for a few years, but gave up due to having weak control over the VM templates, and difficulty playing games.Using Qubes would allow you to familiarize yourself with VM-oriented workflows.
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussI'm not particularly worldly or knowlegable, but I occasionally read non-fiction books and Wikipedia to learn.I find the news to be too event-oriented.I use RSS to keep up to date with some tech fields.
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussI'm impressed how quickly Cloudflare write these educational articles during incidents.I suppose them prioririzing it acts as good marketing?
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussThanks. The OP of the link relates to the high bar that Alacritty has for contributions.I can understand this helps to keep Alacritty manageable. Leading projects sometimes involves saying no to features, as they do: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1309That's just a tradeoff.
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussI see. Poor MacOS support isn't indicative of an unhealthy project, but I can see why MacOS users might want to avoid such projects.
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discusshttps://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561#issuecomm... describes why the maintainer thinks the opinion was entitled. I don't think your description is accurate.
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussI don't know anything about Alacritty.What is unhealthy about the project?
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discuss+1.This can lead to corporate capture. We see this in some projects already.
foothall·il y a 5 ans·discussI enjoy the Linux mobile space: https://linmob.net/ is a good blog to start.That community happens to be interested in other topics such as decetralization and repairable hardware too.
Only via good design do they stumble in useful directions.
Developers have better models how the program/website is arranged and so don't need good design as much, and see overt styling as noise.
(I spoke in absolutes for brevity. Exceptions will apply.)