The last motorcycle I owned was a Kawasaki ZZR-1100 (a "zed zed are eleven hundred"). It's all acres of gleaming white teeth and fake smiles, with a big glob of disclaimer squeezed in somewhere, and it makes me recoil from the product. Whereas as a Brit, American advertising looks so plastic and fake that I instinctually distrust it. What to me looks cheap and amateurish and ugly, I suspect to a German looks trustworthy and honest. ![]() I find German typographical design awful myself and I think most German print tech mags look really bad.īut I think that to German eyes, British print material looks so glossy and (to borrow a musical term) over-produced that the instinctive response is to distrust it: it looks like advertising or "advertorial". I worked for Heise for a while, and got to read and take material from Linux Magazine, both in English and German. So there would be an artfully-designed template into which my edited copy was poured. I think it was Quark Xpress on classic MacOS. I’m actually glad they’re getting worse because it pushes more people toward FOSS - severe but temporary punishment is actually more effective and less cruel than life in prison. Not to sound like a broken record, but 2024 will probably be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop, especially with Framework’s AMD 16-inch laptop with upgradeable GPU making a huge splash, and MS and Apple continuing to alienate developers and power users. ![]() The only pain points I notice with my Framework are not strictly software-related (dislaimer: I don’t play much in terms of modern games anymore) power management/suspend (an atrocity in my experience), and quality of internal peripherals (the mic, webcam, and trackpad are almost useless, so I use just use a dock and external peripherals - and they work great with minimal hassle). The software is so much more usable than any MS OS since Windows 7, and even MacOS of the past 2-3 years (many people I talk to have remarked on how MacOS quality and usability have been degrading recently). These days my personal and professional daily drivers are, respectively, a 2021 and a 2022 Framework laptop, both with Fedora/GNOME updated regularly. ![]() I don’t have experience with GNU/Linux going back that far, but even since 2014 (when I got started with Ubuntu), I’ve seen things get much, much better.
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