There is no operating system with either name. The operating systems are called Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.
We need a name to collectively refer to them. If we say “Linux” because they share the Linux kernel, ok, but so does eg. Android.
What better name is there to refer to the ones in the above list, but not Android, than “GNU/Linux”?
Krusader (or generally dual-pane file managers) is great once you get used to it. I have been using it (and Double Commander on Windows) for years now and wouldn’t want to get back to anything else.
Haiku and ReactOS have been mentioned, but SerenityOS hasn’t yet, maybe that is an option too. :D
I’ve never used the terminal on Android for anything serious. I’ve used it, but only for really nerdy things most users will never need.
meh, we already have an option for the first (KDE Plasma) and for the second (GNOME) as far as I’m concerned, so what else is missing
Yes, you are quite right: I heard about the existence of “Samsung DeX” here first. It’s such an obscure thing that I (a Samsung smartphone user for more than half a decade) hadn’t heard of it before. I had certainly heard of Chrome OS before even though I’ve never used it.
The term “desktop” has more than one meaning and in the context of which operating systems are used on desktops, it certainly includes laptops. 😉
KolourPaint is very close to an exact clone of MS Paint from around Windows XP.
There are also xpaint and Pinta, which are somewhat different, but might satisfy your requirements too.
Not what I want to happen though.
I want them to release Windows as free and open source software. Windows is on a purely technical level not a bad OS. If it were FOSS, we would get dozens of excellent distributions of it.
The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be
apparently we are now supposed to think that that is a good thing, huh
This is probably supposed to be a link to this: https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-secure-access-to-millions-of-pirated-books/
There are a few communities where that link was posted correctly: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/53133358
now that is truly idiotic
I don’t mind apps drawing their own titlebars if they have a real use for it (I’m typing this comment in a Firefox window where the titlebar has the tab bar in it), but not having any window-manager-level title bar as a fallback at all and requiring apps to do that themselves?! Window managers everywhere else have been doing this since what, the 1984 Apple Macintosh?
What now? GNOME doesn’t support server-side decorations? It’s been years since I last used GNOME, so I may be out of touch; but if this is true, what happens if you do run something on GNOME that simply doesn’t have any code that draws its own titlebars? Or am I misunderstanding how any of this works?
I sometimes do that too, but as it’s not a thing on Windows (which I’m forced to use at work), it’s not my default habit.
I wonder if you can run Double Commander on ReactOS. I use it on Windows and it seems not to have this “usability issue”, apart from being very convenient in other ways too…
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ReactOS is mentioned in the article, it’s a somewhat different approach.
I use it all the time in web browsers (Firefox/LibreWolf can do it even on Linux). I learned to use computers on Windows (mainly XP), so as far as I’m concerned, that has “always” been a thing, so why would I not use it.
Former Windows users who expect that to start scrolling. I remember that happening to me when I was new to Linux.
Similar thoughts here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/
Particularly interesting is this comment: