The difference would be that RMS is extremely well-versed in computer technology. He understands the problems with non-free software.

Someone with his knowledge could choose to disregard those issues for convenience, but Stallman is willing to make great sacrifices.

But now it’s too long for a power user.

Short and Long options are a thing.

Ex: GNU rm can use

--recursive

-r

or

--force

-f

To be fair, that is an issue with the implementation of the given commands, rather than the concept of the command line.

You could create a program that operates like so:

remove-file --dont-ask-for-confirmation house.png

Linux is software.

It doesn’t contain this intrinsic meaning you refer to.

It’s self-explanatory to you because you’re already familiar with the logic, language, conventions. I’m guessing, you grew up with all that from childhood…

This argument can be used as a reason to implement GUIs.

If we wish to market to an audience that has had some basic experience with using Windows and Mac, we can skip some of the reteaching by implementing familiar GUIs

Disappearing messages people!

Very simple actually: don’t use 100% transparency.

Just use something like 80-90% opaque (10-20% transparent) and use the background color as black so it just dims whatever us behind it.

You can have both function and form.

Gnome shenanigans.

The most hilarious part about how Anubis is implemented is that it triggers challenges for every request with a User-Agent containing “Mozilla”.

If you have JavaScript disabled, this “challenge” is just a wall. They might’ve stopped bots, but they’ve stopped me too.

I’ll take a program that isn’t getting updates anymore or simply wasnt working in my modified environment using slightly more ram and storage over it not working at all.

I have firsthand experience with videogames made for one flavor of Linux not working on my machine due to dependency hell.

This is a good reason for static linking. All the dependencies are built into the binary, meaning it is more portable and future proof.

We don’t need flatpak for this!

I’m excited for my cursor to not get trapped in a window anymore.

On Wayland at least, u can completely disable pointer constraints. Thus, a game window freezes, it doesn’t lock your cursor in it.

With X11, the only solutions I found were basically recompiling the X11 code. Thus, I deal with one game window making my cursor disappear and frozen inside itself, affecting all other Xwayland windows.

Annoying and ridiculous. Hopefully not long before wine-wayland matures enough to fix this.

We can use dinit, s6, runit, and openrc.

There are more, but these are all top contenders.

I switched to dinit recently, it uses declarative service management (like systemd unit files). Very clean, fast, lightweight, and portable.

Yes. ~/.mozilla. Its annoying.

You can fix it with a hack by putting a shell script in your path (before the original firefox) that consist of:

#!/bin/sh

HOME='/home/engywuck/.local/share/firefox' /usr/bin/firefox

Call that instead of the original firefox from now on. it will create the “librewolf” folder in ~/.local/share and chuck its junk in there.

Edit: This bug has been open for TWENTY YEARS.

Honestly ridiculous.