Both, I think.
It's built in top of Mach, which has some architectural issues that aren't fixable without a huge amount of work.
And no one's interested in doing that work because we already have Linux and Linux is fine.
There have been a couple of pretty good post mortems over the years. I think one of them is on gnu.org somewhere.
Soon we'll be able to emacs the way the developers intended.
It doesn't. All the time you spent reading manuals and tweaking configs to get it to boot quicker does.
You can charge for FOSS, but you can't prevent the first person who buys your software from sharing it with everyone else for free.
I really like the disk usage analyzer in gnome. The ui/visualization is really intuitive and useful, and I often wish for something similar on windows.
Sometimes I'll start up ConnectBot, which is an android ssh client, on my meta quest. Then I connect to my laptop and attach to a running tmux session so I can use the laptop keyboard but see the text in a virtual window.
My actual laptop setup is pretty boring though
Fzf isn't really experimental. It's pretty mature at this point. I found it to be pretty innovative, though, adding an interactive spin to the find program.
When the API thing happened, several of the subreddits I frequented had threads about finding an alternative to move to. Lemmy was mentioned, but but discounted early on.
One problem was that people found out the main dev was a tankie and didn't want to be associated with the project because of that.
They ended up going to discords, or self hosted forums, or just staying on reddit.
Some GPL projects do it. If you find someone infringing, it's easier to sue them if you have one copywrite holder instead of 100.
I tried and failed to install it on my laptop last year. Couldn't figure out the problem and went back to pop. I'm messing around with it in a vm, though, and liking it a lot. I may try again when I have some more time to troubleshoot.
There's a built in snippet system too, called skeletons, but most people seem to prefer the yasnippet interface.
I saw several threads and may be mixing them up, but at one point someone dug up a link to an interview with desselines where he claimed that the uyghur genecide and the tiananmen square massacre were both hoaxes. There was also some worry in one of the discussions about security and the inability to delete comments. Also something about private messages being stored in plaintext on the server.
I think I've learned and forgotten that tidbit a couple of times. It's something that I need to do seldom enough that when I finally do, I don't remember the keybind .
This is why I have a windows box. I'm hoping when they finally release SteamOS 3 for PC it will have stable SteamVR support.
I like book reader. It's simple and does the job.
The way nix deals with packages is very different from most distros. If you install a newer version of a package, the older version just gets hidden, not removed. This makes it very easy to rollback or recover from errors, but it does mean you tend to use more space.
I would like Debian and the fsf to come to some kind of agreement so Debian can ship the emacs documentation.
Ive been using it for several years. I hardly think about it at all, which is pretty high praise.
I was on Debian from around 1996ish to 2019.
Been on Pop OS since then.
I thought that, but I had identical results using the stock install media and the modified nonguix one from systemcrafters.
The weird thing was that the initial install went fine, even after the first reboot. The problem was the next boot after my first system reconfigure.
Not only could I not boot my system after that, but I couldn't boot the install media either. The only thing that would work was the installer for the most recent pop os.
I was thinking something to do with nonvolitile memory.
The real problem was that the guided install - guix pull - system reconfigure - reboot process took about three to four hours each time, so I gave up after a few iterations.
I did try playing around with bios settings a little, but I'm sure I missed some possibilities.
I'm pretty sure I was set up for substitutes, but this was a while ago.
I did end up replacing my router a few months after that, so it may have just been that my connection was very slow.
Also, every time I tried it and it didn't work, I had to do a full Pop Os install in order for myguix install media to start working again, which added a few minutes to the process.
If you're looking to try something a little different, I recommend Guix.
It's based around a nyx-style package manager written in scheme, which is also called guix. There's an EDSL for writing package definitions. One interesting result about this is that the package manager has a REPL and a dedicated emacs mode
Instead of systemd, the PID1 process is called GNU Shepherd, and is also written in scheme.
Guix also has a strong emphasis on bootstrapping. You can build almost the entire system from source, relying on only a few binaries to start with.
I had a similar experience. Back before epub took off, I started reading Gutenberg books on my wince phone. I think I was using an app called jbookshelf. Even then I loved the convenience of it.
Once android happened, I switched to epubs and it was so much better.
Now I'm mostly using koreader, along with kindle and Google play books. I prefer reading anything in a foreign language on Kindle, because it's so easy to look up words.
I've seen this one and the Michio Kaku one, and they were both great.
There are companies working on providing that experience for Linux. System76 is one. You can buy a laptop with their is pre installed. Everything works, including suspend. If something breaks, you call the support number or email and they either talk you through fixing it or sending it in for repair or replacement. It's not that different from having a Dell or HP.
What about Redox?
Here's a screenshot of the Gnome one, which is actually called baobob:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baobab_screenshot.png
Wiztree looks interesting, I'll see if I can install it, although my work machine is pretty locked down, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's off limits.
I have a Galago from S76 and am very happy with it. I replaced the SSD a few months ago and found the service manual well written and easy to follow.
My next machine will probably be one of theirs too.
It may be a sort of shy Tory effect. People don't volunteer that they run Gnome because it's seen as the default mainstream option, but if someone uses xmonad, they're going to tell you about it.
I haven't seen that paper before. The ones I remember were blogposts or web pages. In fact, this may be what I was remembering: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html Particularly the part about what happened with the port to different microkernels.
IIRC NeXT and OSX use Mach, but they don't use it as intended. I think they're mostly a BSD kernel with Mach functioning as an interface to userspace.
Hurd actually used Mach as a microkernel, and moved most functionality to userspace daemons. This meant that Mach's performance issues,, at least the ones related to IPC, affected the Hurd a lot more than OSX or NeXT.
And yeah, I think developer interest was the biggest thing that held it back.