[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You know that, and I know that, but explain that to the person that asked that question.

Once I figured out it was Ubuntu with gnome I had to tell them to open the freaking terminal and spell them some commands over the phone. Not an environment I'd call "ready" for regular people.

The entire post in general is a bit weird, because it calls "Linux" "ready" as if Linux was something an end-user could install and use.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

A question I got last week over the phone: "How do I show the day of the week next to the date in the desktop on Linux?" - what would you tell them?

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Have you ever opened a word document that's more than just a single unformated paragraph on libre office. I know it's not a "Linux" issue, but people don't care. Of over 80% of the world uses Windows and Microsoft Office and the Word document somebody sent me looks completely messed up an the inlined table is all over the place or the line break happens on a different row than on the original document it's not ready. And don't say "pdf". People don't care. Karen could open it on her PC with a double click on her machine and on your machine it's completely broken, why should I sent you a pdf. I just sent the same document to Karen and it worked perfectly.

My point is that Linux Desktop is far from "ready" for regular people.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

A what compositor - try to explain to people, that just want to open a freaking word document, what you just said. Explain to them why libre office completely messes up the formating. "Via gamescope", "Wayland", "wine" whatever. Doesn't sound ready to me.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

But to be fair it's definitely not the lawyers fault.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yea because wheels suck on sand.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

It doesn't matter if you divide ln(2) or x by three, it's the same thing.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

You can sure it's end to end encrypted because the client can be analyzed to verify that claim.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Of couse all the others are odd because otherwise they wouldn't be prime. All primes after three are also not divisible by three... "magic". The only difference is that there are is no word like "even" or "odd" for "divisible by three" or "not divisible by three".

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

It's not unheard of no, but if you have to rule out two for some reason it's because of some other arbitrary choice. In the first instance (haven't yet looked at the second and third one) it has to do with the fact that a sum of "two" was chosen arbitrary. You can come up with other things that requires you to exclude primes up to five.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

"even" just means divisible by two. So it's not unique at all. Two is the only prime that's ~~even~~ divisible by two and three is the only prime that's divisible by three. You just think two is a special prime because there is a word for "divisible by two" but the prime two isn't any more special or unique in any meaningful way than any other prime.

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