I kind of half joked that I would be able to share and talk about the good Dilbert strips once Scott Adams was gone. Looking back, they weren't that good. Maybe it's a situation where the innovator looks worse by what followed.

"Paradigm shifting without a clutch" is a good turn of phrase though.

I'm keeping an eye on Graphite (https://graphite.art/) as something to move to from Affinity's stuff, but it's good there's a new option for people who need more.

Most explorer issues are really file system issues. It's touchy. chkdsk in offline repair mode usually fixes it. For the rest, clear the thumbnail cache.

The ways Windows breaks are different from the ways Linux breaks, but there are still ways to fix it. Most of the rest are solved with one or two commands, and it's usually the same two: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-fil...

I did try those, but it did not solved the issue. But searching around I came to know, this was a rare known explorer bug. Which was not resolved ... so that's that.

The difference was the device came with a disk containing the driver for DOS and Windows.

I don't see how that is Linux' fault.

I didn't say it was. This discussion is about relative difficulty of setting things up. It is, objectively, more difficult when you need to download a driver for new hardware and the NIC on your laptop needs a driver your distro didn't come with.

Not for a very long time.

I don't buy a lot of hardware, but the last thing I bought (Vocaster One) came with the driver installer on a small USB mass storage volume when the device plugged in.

I'm waiting on Ableton, Arturia, and Native Instruments. The latter two should have the easiest time since all their stuff is already VST3 and it can support Linux.

Some of the stuff coming out of CES is nice. Whether the apparent quality survives in production is another question.

I can never remember what's what with Markdown. HTML has the important feature of providing a hint to function in the tag. I struggled learning HTML, but I eventually memorized all the tags to the point that I can still hammer out boilerplate all these years later. It's always a coin toss on whether I'll bold or italicize the first time I use Markdown in a while.

I still prefer WYSIWYG.

For example: my #2 submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38468326

Raymond Chen tries to document it, but he's just one person.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing

Hopefully all this news Linux is getting for games translates to pressure on makers of all the tools that don't run reliably/at all in Wine and co. to start working on ports. Or at least on making changes to make API translation work better.

I can't move until the software I've invested in moves too. There are no Linux alternatives.

VMs, second machine with firewall etc. I recommend moving everything you can to trustworthy tech. Doesn’t have to be all at once but a gradual process.

I'm familiar with the standard suite of proposed solutions, but maybe this will help someone who can use it. Thanks for sharing.