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I didn't have to show ID to create my Paypal or Venmo accounts.

I didn't think the BSD's allowed a blank root password.

My XPS 13 9360 was $900. Arch runs like a dream on it.

We're talking about searching in the Activities view of GNOME 3. I don't think it can be turned off (usually it's great if there isn't a name collision)

A GUI with a 1-1 mapping to command line arguments sounds like heaven. Of course this exists for something like GVim, but I had no idea commercial software of any kind was doing it. That makes scriptability possible!

That same thing (Calc/Calculator) happens to me every day. haha. I never thought about how that is probably affecting a ton of users.

I agree with you that it should be implemented better, though I've honestly come to expect this from Windows.

It's just a bit extreme considering you submitted it to HN, where the people directly involved actually have a chance of seeing it.

> The Product Manager in charge of this feature should be immediately fired.

I hate this kind of writing. It undermines the otherwise good point the author has.

It becomes slightly more work if you depend on AUR packages (especially if you end up maintaining the packages you depend on!), but overall I think it's a great daily-driver system.

Yeah service to Williamsburg is still dicey. You can be a sardine on the L, or if you're close enough to the JMZ, you'd better not have to ride back after 8pm (one or more of the trains may not be running).

> Email provides ubiquitous, traceable, asynchronous, storable messaging. Until something can entirely supplant it I don't see it disappearing anytime soon.

Long live email. Anything that replaces it will probably be a closed proprietary protocol and I don't look forward to that at all.

Ubuntu on WSL lets you run sshd. You can get to your Windows file system at /mnt/c/.

As far as I know, WSL is "Ubuntu on Windows", so wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? Maybe they would simply work out a deal to pay a royalty to Canonical or something. Wouldn't that be poetic.

I think it would be really interesting if MS competed in that space. But 'nix sysadmins don't want to worry about maintaining a Windows instance concurrently with their server instances (assuming the only facilities they need are what 'nix provides). Microsoft having Windows attached to their Linux distribution is a net negative, in my opinion.

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> one could even argue they are somewhere between the embrace and extend phase.

I see it more as grasping at straws to stay relevant. The Ballmer-era FUD campaign was mostly a failure (and bad PR). "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em".

I only see value for Windows as a desktop OS, and I think the intent of WSL is improving the dev experience on Windows.

If you need a high quality Linux server, why not just run Linux?

And you just (mostly) summarized it with a single sentence. The fact that such a screed was written at all is a problem. These kinds of arguments require very precise language in order to minimize misunderstandings and deflections.

I think he's being fired more for the severe PR fallout that resulted in the way he tried to start the conversation, than for the content of the manifesto.

My point was, it's not a good set of examples, since they are so unlike each other. Unless you mean certain organizations actually consider them equivalent.

> "If they put 'make america great again' or 'death to white men' posters up on the bulletin boards at work in the break room, yeah, they'll fire them too."

Are you saying that supporting a presidential candidate is tantamount to "death to white men"? Yes, the candidate in question is abhorrent, but come on. Those statements absolutely don't carry equal weight.

This was exactly my impression of LA when I visited for the first time last month. A city that peaked 50+ years ago (though, to be fair, that can be said about many American cities).

Wow, these are really beautiful. Great job.

Man, this brings back some middle school memories of back when my biggest USB drive was 128MB and I was playing with Linux live images for the first time. Sad to see why and how the project died.

My point was that I don't see the sense in the strategy laid out by grandparent, because I don't see a compelling reason to run Windows on servers (I say this as a former Windows sysadmin (as recently as this year, not 2005)).

The question of why you would want to run your server code on Windows (aside from supporting legacy .NET apps) remains. Those same sysadmins can overwrite Windows with a BSD or Linux on those cheap laptops.

I really hope they make WSL's /home/. symlink to /mnt/c/users/. by default. What's the point of having a separate filesystem and home directory? I want native POSIX in Windows. The WSL implementation feels like... not that.

Isn't serverless just the present-day incarnation of timesharing?

I noticed this with my new XPS laptop last year. After moving to GNOME, things started Just Working. A lot of what we consider basic functionality is implemented differently by each DE, and running in userspace, or is completely absent (like power management or automatic/easy wireless networking).

OpenMW is insane. I am totally floored by entirely reverse-engineered game engines like it and OpenRCT.

This is amazing and unexpected. I hope this sets a precedent for other developers to follow with their old titles.

I have had a good experience with Keepass2Android. It has support for databases on Google Drive.