The update was supposed to improve dark mode in Windows 11
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don’t feel any real competitive pressure.

    AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don’t need to worry about competition.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      Maybe they didn’t need to worry about competition because they tested so vigorously. 🤷‍♂️

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      Kali is not for actual every day use.

      You can install all of its included tools on whatever distro you want.

        • merci3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          Nice to know you’re enjoying Linux :P

          I think that later on in your adventure, you’ll notice that you don’t actually need a distro that’s hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.

          Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.

            • merci3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Cybersecurity and “stopping hackers” are very extensive and complex topics. It’s kinda like a mix of many areas of knowledge (software, hardware, coding, internet of things, etc…)

              So one advice I think I can give you is that there is a “tool” of hacking that is often overlooked: Social Engineering.

        • merci3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

          Hmm, I personally place Nix at the same level as Arch, because I see both distros being hard to get into because of how different they do stuff when compared to the average OS.

          Maybe the real level up is trying to run BSD on unsupported hardware?

              • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                Let’s skip all intermediate quotes and directly jump to the xkcd reference: I only program with butterflies. Of course, there is an Emacs command for that: good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly

          • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple /etc/nixos/configuration.nix maybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff like lib.mapAttrs, I’d say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complex overrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn’t have an equivalent to that…

            • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              I didn’t need to learn a programming language to install Arch btw. I’d definitely agree Nix is an unnecessary complication for very little gain for the average user.

              • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                Well, you don’t need to learn nix as a programming language for a simple installation, you can use it like a slightly different json, which the configuration.nix part was about. You can get the reproducibility aspect from just that, so I wouldn’t say you get no benefits at all without learning the language.

                There are more disadvantages (like time required to rebuild because you added a single package), so Arch is the better choice depending on preferences. Arch is a very good traditional distribution in my opinion, can’t go wrong with it

                • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  No no, there isn’t “no benefit”. There’s just very little gain, compared to the effort. The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility. 😅 So the effort required to either add Nix stuff to an existing distro or install NixOS itself will just be wasted effort for most people, I imagine. Myself included.

                  As a power user, I’m still not interested. Chezmoi serves me more than well to sync between my work laptop and my main desktop PC, because I’m running Arch on both systems and I still haven’t had the need to reproduce a system in over a decade with Arch. 🥰 So stable.

                  But yeah if you reinstall frequently or manage a lot of machines daily then it might be worth looking into. 👌

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      What kind of “hardcore shit” are you planning to do with your computer? 😅

  • Gonzako@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I’d love to recommend the file pilot the file explorer. It isn’t the most feature complete (it’s still on beta) but just the sheer amount of time you gain by it’s search tooling is just astonishing.