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Linux has that issue too. A process in an uninterruptible blocking syscall stays until that syscall finishes, which can be never if something weird’s going on.

KDE can murder windows instantly (you have to set a shortcut), or you can also just send SIGKILL to the process

How convoluted was it?

Parts of it seem to be inherently more secure, but there are some pretty glaring holes. At least software distribution is much more secure than the Windows approach.

Arch Linux is a good vision and a tab for the meds

Listening to employees when making decisions, what a concept! It’s a shame many places don’t do that.

No way, x is the best kind of x??

Most packages are purely additive to to system. If GNOME is part of the base system, I don’t care because I can just not use it. For packages that are mutually exclusive, well, usually that’s the distro picking it for you anyway, but if you insist on changing them then OverlayFS lets you mask files in the base.

For something like Arch or Gentoo, the read-only partition approach absolutely won’t work, but I know Fedora’s been working on an OSTree immutable approach, so it’s still technically a mutable partition but it’s defined declaratively and is still easy to roll back.

Immutable partitions are amazing for reliability, then you can just OverlayFS your mutable state on top of it

If it was on something like BTRFS it’d probably be fine, though I imagine there’s still a small window where the FS could flush while the file is being written. renameat2 has the EXCHANGE flag to atomically switch 2 files, so if arch maintainers want to fix it they could do

1. Write to temporary file
2. Fsync temporary file
3. Renameat2 EXCHANGE temporary and target
4. Fsync directory (optional, since a background flush would still be atomic, just might take some time)

Growing up is a scam anyway, stay young!

If your government is controlled by neoliberal capitalists, that is what might happen yes, and that is why we should do as much as we can to get a government that actually acts in the interest of the people.

Government isn’t inherently bad at doing things, you’ve just been conditioned to think that by this system that forces the government to self-sabotage. Of course, the self-sabotage only applies to social programs, they’re actually very good and efficient at subsidizing and lowering taxes for the wealthy, for instance.

You’re thinking within the confines of the capitalist market, but why limit yourself? We can have systems where you can easily switch homes with people, or keep rent but keep it reasonable and without the huge extractive element, or so many other potential systems.

The problems you mention are problems created by capitalism, we have the power to fix them by playing by different rules, because the rules are made up.

I literally said the word in my reply. Also, you seem to have completely missed the point: we can have them charge rent, or provide it for free, or rent but subsidized, or any other scheme because it’s detached from market logic. It’s not about the word “landlord”, it’s about the effects of actions. Call it whatever you want, I don’t care.

And admin roles really don’t need a wage equivalent to mortgage payments and ownership of the properties they administer, so your comparison is dishonest. I’d prefer you spent your thinking on reason rather than formulating your troll response.

The capitalist system really limits the kinds of things people can imagine. We’re not confined to regulating the market from the outside, the government can be the “landlord” without the profit incentive.

Green threads are functionally the same, especially in languages that can preempt.

IEEE-754

You really should be doing your IO async. Do you specifically mean callback hell?

Steam OS is completely open source except for the Steam client.

They do, I was joking. It’s not as funny to say the ecosystem is slowly trudging along.