• you need predictable latency

• you don’t want garbage collection

• you don’t like MS

• toolchain doesn’t exist for your target

FreeBSD is way better in security record

After accounting for the massive difference in number of eyeballs actually looking for vulns?

Like the name of this sub suggests, most companies that are hiring developers want someone with existing real-world experience building things. If you just went and got a degree and have nothing else to show, then you have the training but you don’t have experience.

I would suggest meaningfully contributing to open-source projects, and/or making your own projects, so that you have something to show on your resume as “experience” until you get real projects at a real job.

What’s an example of something they could do with more data than what we see?

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Why do you need something different?

Some people prefer GUIs, I see having extra choices as a good thing.

Any browser or html/css-based rendering is still 100x more computationally expensive and RAM-bloated than a native approach.

also Japan: “what’s a11y?”

Fark still exists?!

If only I could read it… endless captcha loops for me.

It has newer packages than Debian. And even though Debian releases new stables every couple years, at least historically, it has kept old package versions around for way longer than that. Before I started using ubuntu sometime in the '10s, it was normal for a debian stable package to be upwards of 10 years out of date.

And it wasn’t like today where you have containers/VMs, PPAs, flatpak/appimage/snap/etc… if you needed a newer version of a package for whatever reason, often you couldn’t just compile it yourself or use the testing/unstable one because it had cascading dependencies that were also newer, so you were just screwed. Being able to have a “stable” release with newer packages was a huge draw for Ubuntu.

The burden of proof lies upon the person making empirically unfalsifiable claims.

depends on your definition of good, and free

Source:

entire KB system

And right before they did that, they started removing footnotes from KB articles that only dealt with older OSes, so if you ever needed to go back and find something, it just wasn’t there anymore. For example certain RGB packing formats were only supported on newer OSes and the footnote used to tell you that, but then it disappeared. I have been directly affected by that multiple times.