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Or insta
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<blockquote> Vocus – the country's third-largest internet operator which is behind brands including Orcon, Slingshot and Stuff Fibre </blockquote>
Never heard of any of those, when people here think ISPs they think Vodafone, Spark / Telecom, maybe skinny or 2 degrees but I've never heard of any of those four.
Those are probably all controlled by the top two though, just like Woolworths / Progressive and Foodstuffs manage to together own all of our supermarkets.
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This may be a feature of the desktop, though, to add the text "(as username)" to the title bar text.
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Yeah, that's Marco the window manager doing its thing. I used to mess around with a custom desktop environment, and I'd start X and marco as root, and every single window (the server side decorators at least) would say (as kettle) after it.
I'm starting work on a UI framework called Oui designed for just that: it's cross-platform, adaptive and will soon be themable. Put it on a touchscreen, it gets a tablet or phone UI depending on window size, it respects DPI settings, and more relevantly for this conversation is adaptive. I know kde users like choice, menubars and everything in front of them, so the UI reacts to that. It will be themable eventually, so that's an added plus. On Windows 10 it has the ribbon interface, and on Windows 11 it follows Fluent design. On OS X, it uses client side decorations, toolbars and will support the global menu bar. On Big Sur it uses client side decorations and the sidebar visually extends vertically the entire way down the window. On gnome it uses your beloved CSDs and shit in the titlebars.
Finally people who share my thinking. The best mac OS was either tiger or snow leopard.
Firefox and LibreOffice stick to their "traditional" designs because they WORK, and do so well. Even GIMP, which let's not forget was what gtk was created for, uses gtk 2 for a reason: it's familiar.
Apple designed something for their later macs where the function keys are replaced by a single touchscreen key, that's long, and apps can program it to show certain buttons.
What I don't understand is why they don't just make the whole keyboard like that. It solves the keyboard layout problems...
And they are into minimising key travel...
IMO Windows 7 was great. There was no shit about Bing, Edge or the absolute mess of a Microsoft Store. It was fast, stable and had nice translucency effects. I have poor vision, and I liked having a bright blue titlebar on the active window. Now the text is slightly lighter.
I use a couple of OSes now, not one of them is windows. I have hoped Windows 11 might give me a decent reason to use it but Microsoft doesn't seem to care about what's underneath. Otherwise my 7-minute boot times wouldn't be a thing.
what Windows 8 did and only allow side loading if it is enterprise joined on a Windows Server based domain?
They did WHAT?
I never heard of this, mind you Windows 7 is and probably always will be the best Windows, and I stuck at it until business meant moving to 10.
But please, no, don't suggest that!
I was shocked when I found out you have to pay to use public toilets overseas, I've never had that at home.
Nobody has coins these days.
Although, now that the UK is in lockdown now it doesn't matter that much, because just as few people are using trains.
I "discovered" Linux after my weekly BSoDs turned into daily BSoDs, and recall having two of them one day before giving up. I knew very little about Linux, all I knew was that it was an operating system (which it isn't really), and I knew what that was, from experience with macOS and Windows.
I found a blank USB in the draw under my desk, and went to the Ubuntu website and downloaded an ISO. After hours of trying to figure out how to put the ISO on the USB, I finally did it. I put the thing in and installed without hesitating.
Now I use Fedora Silverblue (sometimes, but only when I have to) and helloSystem. Fedora and helloSystem are nearly polar opposites in design philosophy, but they're both easy to use.
The author of this article does make some misinterpreted remarks about security, and the quote given had very litte to do with security. This was brought up by Simon Peter on the Matrix channel for helloSystem, and what he meant was that you can't aim for total security: the user ends up with no freedom, the system becomes a maze, and in days new malware gets released that finds another hole to exploit.
Look at Apple: macOS and iOS are locked down to the point of barely being usable, and _still_ have security holes.
Or are they both copying some other platform?
I feel like Windows never looked great - 3 was all pixely, 95 and 98 had too much beige, and were slow, ME was just generally shit, 2000 was okay, but a bit too grey, XP jumped out at you with blue and yellow, Vista was too shiny and transparent, 8 was flat and boring, and I usually see blue with white text and an unhappy face too much on 10.
macOS had both looks and function, now it has neither.
Shutdown option
It took me a while to figure out why Windows 3 crashed every time I closed Program Manager...
What I despise about the leaked Windows 11 images is the start menu being in the middle of the taskbar -- for 25 years you put the mouse in the bottom left corner. Doesn't matter much to me now that I have a certain FreeBSD distribution as my primary OS...