Windows is a consumer OS, which is terrible for engineering, less centered around CLIs but nevertheless having a few even more cryptic ones tacked on like afterthoughts or a legacy hoarding exercise.
CLIs will always be more powerful than GUIs. They tap into what the OS actually is. The GUI is an illusion.
Piracy isn't copying things for free. If it was, it wouldn't have been a crime on the high seas, nobody would've died, and we'd be in a utopia. (The kind we have in cyberspace and we're trying to enforce the tyrannical limits of meatspace onto for $, which can be used to buy stuff in meatspace, which you still can't copy for free.)
Turn off composition (if Xfce allows you to, like KDE does). Then drag a window around your screen on a high framerate monitor and feel the difference.
I think a more plausible theory is that white people feel more entitlement than black people, not because of some weird genetic memory thing but because they see other white people (or maybe even their parents or great-grandparents) enjoy much higher success than they are. Higher expectations = more pain from shitty circumstances = worse reactions.
>Dolpin is excellent as a file manager. Nautilus was terrible when they introduced it. It's still terrible.
Like most GTK apps, Nautilus feels like a toy app.
Dolphin feels like a better app than what you have in any other OS.
Most of the best Linux apps seem like they're Qt, and that's because GTK is increasingly terrible to work with. The next runner up file manager to Dolphin, PCManFM, switched from GTK to Qt[0]:
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Hong Jen Yee, developer of LXDE (the GTK version of which was dropped and all efforts focused on the Qt port), expressed disdain for version 3 of the GTK toolkit's radical API changes and increased memory usage, and ported PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) to Qt. PCManFM is being developed with a GTK and with a Qt backend at the same time.
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Everything's going to become a tablet webapp, and Linux is finally going to be used by Average Folks. (That's why GNOME is basically a touch-based tablet DE.)
In my opinion, that's a doomed vision, both technologically and in what will occur. You can't have convergence; you can't collapse UIs or OSes down to the lowest common denominator (a mobile tablet) and have it be as good on a desktop as a UI or an OS meant for a desktop. Moreover, Linux is, and will (sadly?) remain, an "engineering OS", which is great for developers and technical people but comparatively alien and limited for Average Folk (probably for the same metaphysical reasons as the UI/OS problem).
You could say that Linux caters to the extremes: users who are SO simple that they don't even notice what OS they're on (they don't need to interface with AAA games or Netflix because they just "play sudoku") and users who are advanced enough to benefit from its technical focus. (But then again, the simple case is equally catered to by every OS, so I think "engineering OS" is the best way to look at it.) Average Folks are in the middle; they'll never touch a command line, and they want to play World of Warcraft or Call of Duty.
Your actual Linux user is either a programmer or a sysadmin, either professional or amateur. They're statistically the most likely segment of the population to actually be on a desktop computer with multiple monitors and to be finicky about DE features, and that's precisely the user GNOME targets the least due to some mix of fumes of the Converge era and the "developer first" convenience of just not having features and keeping things simple and changing them at will, downstream be damned (GTK4+).
Yep. In fact, less developers are using GTK (and migrating their projects to Qt[0]), and less users are using GNOME, over time due to its self-imposed limitations. KDE usage, in what metrics I've seen, is somewhere at parity with GNOME for DE market share and growing while GNOME is declining, which is telling given that KDE is not the default DE in major distros.
Synthetic "popularity by default" vs. authentic popularity at work.
It's kind of unsubstantiatable, but I think capitalism is fundamentally a poor fit for "high quality art".
The gaming industry is experiencing the same hyper-commercialization that the movie industry has experienced.
You can argue that the super hero movies of today and the remakes are "better" than older movies on the best objective metric we have (how much revenue they generate), and that we're in "the best era of film of all time" right now, but... I don't know who truly believes that, subjectively. :p It feels wild to believe that. I certainly don't, and I don't for gaming either.
Funny story: I got Doom Eternal about a year after it came out. I needed to make an account, even though I only play singleplayer. When first opening it, I got bombarded by pop-ups from a dozen DLC and update cycles, like a little history of its updates thus far. I cringed at the social media-like network integration stuff in the main menu. I play for a few days. On like the fourth day, when opening the game, this pop-up appears in-game, but it's empty. It's like some network notice, but it's broken. The pop-up is blank. There's no way to get past it. Nothing helps. The game essentially bricked itself via its own botnet bloatware (a thing an older game would never do). Apparently, it happens to console and PC users alike, and there was no solution around it. It's as if it accidentally ripped you, the user, off, in that a digital product just stopped working. (Let's not even mention the plight of future gamers trying to simulate the always-online DRM so they can play it in an emulator. Hey--at least Bethesda removed the kernel-level anticheat following backlash, allowing the game to run on Linux again!) Luckily, even though I was past the usual playtime limit, Steam gave me a full refund. :D
Also, Diablo Immortal is probably more profitable than all the previous Diablo games put together, and I'll leave it to you to decide if that's a case where profitability or even popularity maps with whatever we truly mean by "quality".
>Third gender is the term used in India for transgender.
Aaaah. That makes sense.
The reason that was unusual to me was because, in the West, currently, the prevailing view/jargon is that there's genders, and each gender can be "cis" or "trans". More controversially, there are also non-binary people, who may report no gender, a mix of genders, or a gender other than "man"/"woman". That would be your usage of "third gender".
I read your post before it was flagged. Have you ever played Civ: Beyond Earth?
You're like the Purity faction, who bends all new technology around human whims and limitations (dome cities, big anthropomorphic mechs), solving the issue by segregating genders into silos where their whims and limitations are directly catered to.
There's two other factions in the game, Supremacy and Harmony, both of which are transhuman, who transcend their human whims and limitations and exploit and adapt to new technologies on the technologies' novel terms.
Purity is comfier and easier, but I think it's a net retardation of growth and development. (It's certainly a regression in terms of liberal egalitarianism.) That future is stagnation. Transcendence is the key. We should all become third gender. (Just kidding. I had nothing else to end with. By the way, your emphasis on "third gender" is pretty unusual to me. Do you mean non-binary people? Or are you using it as some TERFy catch-all for trans people? :p)
Sexless, genderless, genetically modified people grown in vats operated by the state and implanted with cybernetic backpacks that short-circuit decades of education before they're sent off to subvert alien civilizations and expand the empire is obviously the way to go; this demented legacy biology game we're trapped in is played out af.