I find the need to have an account in order to contribute to projects a deal breaker. It causes too much friction for no real gain. Email based workflows will always reign supreme. It’s the OG of code contributions.
This is dumb. I have followed the simple 12 step process to set up git send-email and it was so much more hassle than creating an account on GitHub or Codeberg or whatever, and in the end the UX is much worse.
What’s your job / where do you work then?
What do you need the website to be able to do?
No developer is an island. By using an extremely unpopular VSC they increase the barrier to contribution for all external developers, miss out on support in tools and projects that only support Git, and they don’t get to benefit from the increased development effort that goes into more popular solutions.
Dead as in essentially nobody uses it. Apparently it’s used even less than SVN, which sounds kind of crazy. Doesn’t stop them developing it if they want I guess.
Facebook is relevant because they were one of the last major users of Mercurial and were big contributors to it. They’ve moved to their own VCS Sapling now though.
What what? Mercurial is dead. Not even Facebook use it any more.
It’s not a mirror. It’s the primary repository. And yes unfortunately they aren’t accepting PRs or using it for issue tracking, but it’s a start.
As far as I can tell it’s mostly the TPM requirement and pushing more ads / AI nonsense.
You can easily avoid the latter by using the LTSC IoT version. I just bought a new (second hand) computer for TPM (my old one was very due for an upgrade).
With the IoT version it’s absolutely fine. Definitely an improvement over Windows 10. The only issue I’ve noticed is it doesn’t come with Windows Game bar or some nonsense so after you run games you’ll get a random dialog about there not being an app available to handle ms-gamelink URLs or something. You can just ignore it. I might fix it one day.
I think Fusion 360 defaults to direct modelling which may be easier for beginners. FreeCAD uses parametric modelling which is more powerful and easier to use, but probably a bit confusing if you aren’t expecting it.
Also Fusion360 is commercial software that has had lots and lots of UX effort put into it. FreeCAD hasn’t. Until FreeCAD 1.0 I would say it had pretty awful UX, even for someone already familiar with parametric CAD.
With FreeCAD 1.0 it’s quite good and usable for people with experience in parametric CAD (mostly) but it definitely doesn’t hold your hand and I wouldn’t expect a beginner to be able to design a part easily first time.
Interesting. I guess as long as it doesn’t have any false positives this seems like an ok idea.
Still, it would be definitely better if it could use tsc. They mention this… but don’t really say if the Go version of tsc will allow it. IMO the slowness of tsc is largely overblown.
FreeCAD 1.0 is actually pretty good now. Definitely usable if you’re only doing basic things.
SolveSpace is also nice but it has some deal-breaker limitations like not supporting chamfers/bevels.
That means the installation is irrelevant to the use of Windows. The vast majority of people who use Linux installed it themselves.
No, Firefox would die too. Or at least it would become completely irrelevant.
The open source community doesn’t have enough manpower to maintain a browser engine.
It’s 75% of their income. Definitely obscene CEO salary but it’s still true that Mozilla would die without this deal.
Haha this is also the classic Linux experience. Any complaints about stuff not working properly get met with “It works for me” and “You’re doing it wrong”. Oh and don’t forget “did you submit a bug report?” and “if you don’t like it, fork it!”.
Ha yeah ASCII Nethack.
@
Don’t be an idiot.
I would strongly recommend against them. The design is fundamentally flawed. To click you have to press sideways which naturally moves the cursor a bit causing you to misclick. To compensate you have to tense your hand even more which defeats the point.
How deep is your desk, and what seat are you using? Getting a deeper desk and an expensive mesh-bottomed chair (I have a HM Mira) made waaaaaaay more difference than any of the weird ergonomic keyboards or mice of unusual keyboard layouts I tried.