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Disclaimer This is a script for a video I started writing a few years ago. I didn’t want to see it rot in a notes app I no longer use, so here it is. I may have formulated it differently nowadays, but the point still stands. Rant I have long been using Linux as my primary operating system for gaming. Back when I couldn’t get wine applications to access the internet I never ever would have thought that the majority of AAA games would ever run on Linux. I love the platform and am amazed at how far it has come. However, there are things that don’t work on Linux. And often times the fault lies not with Linux developers. However, this does not change the fact that some things still don’t work, and problems don’t get better if nobody talks about them. Lately I have increasingly come upon people on Linux communities who seem to function along the following lines: ...

Introduction instantOS relies on a lot of tools which use plaintext configuration in the home directory and have pretty much all their features disabled by default. This means that in order to ship a somewhat functional system out of the box, user settings need to be managed in some automated way, unless the user modifies them manually. In that case, automated change in these files can be very destructive, as it could leat to unexpected behaviors or loss of user customizations. ...

Software wishlist For a while now I’ve been keeping a list of features or changes I really wish the software I use to have. I consider most of these to be obviously good ideas. I don’t feel particularly creative having come up with them and I’m not sure why these haven’t been implemented yet in most cases. Software MacOS The systray has tons of problems. Loads of apps rely on it, it contains functionality not available elsewhere. But it is fighting for space with the menu bar and the notch on modern Macbooks. Windows has had a simple overflow menu in forever, if an icon doesn’t fit on the systray, there’s an arrow to view all icons which don’t fit. On MacOS, icons which dont fit are simply hidden. You need to reorder and drag icons behind the notch until you get the one you want. This can take half a minute every single time and is extremely fiddly. ...

Hello world This is my first post. Setting this site up was way more work than I anticipated. Jekyll seems a bit old school, its website hasn’t changed ever since I first came across it. GitHub pages is older than GitHub Actions, but pages was sort of absorbed into actions. In order to keep compatibility with older repos, they added some ghost jobs to the site (?) Also my custom domain just got erased from the settings, or they added the settings page after I added the custom domain in some other way. That was ages ago, I don’t really remember. ...