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·3년 전·discuss
Yes, although, it brings some Philip K Dick-ian possibilities to computers, 'ghosts' slipping into books and that sort of thing. Imagine, sending a highly compressed copy of Wikipedia to a mars colony. The signal got distorted during transit and upon decompressing it some weird entity slipped in.
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·3년 전·discuss
When you know you definitly do not have time for an answer deleting it might unload your mental burden. Keeping hundreds of unamswered messages around might feel like an unresolved issue.
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·4년 전·discuss
...the year of the Linux Desktop

I keep wondering about this year of the Linux Desktop. So often I see it used as a snide towards Linux users (not by you). I think it shows naivety.

What does it mean? Is it about having a stable easy to maintain and full featured Linux Desktop. I really do think we have reached that point. Especially now that many workflows have moved to the web I am having a hard time coming up with use cases for which Linux would really not be suited. Even gaming has become very viable.

Or does it mean that Linux for overtake the market share of Windows and macOS. For that I would caution to be careful about what you wish for. Being an underdog brings an added benefit of having more flexibility and the option to think outside of the box. For Linux to overtake Windows it would slowly turn into Windows itself in my opinion.