If you call a machine with a Linux kernel and GNU userspace utilities "GNU/Linux" does that mean a Windows machine with cygwin is a "GNU\Windows"?
Correct. That in fact is what "gwin" in Cygwin and "GW" in MinGW stand for. Likewise, a complete installation of DJGPP (with the compiler, Binutils, Coreutils, Make, and Bash) is GNU/MS-DOS or GNU/FreeDOS.
And a Mac with a bunch of GNU packages installed from home brew is running "GNU/macOS/BSD"?
Probably not, unless the user has replaced the Darwin counterpart to Coreutils with GNU Coreutils.
Which other sites are included with your subscription to Neue Zuercher Zeitung? If someone shares the URL of an article with you, and the article is in a publication other than Neue Zuercher Zeitung, how do you respectfully phrase that you decline to read the article?
considering you can mine Monero of about 1 dollar per day on an average quad-core CPU
First, last I checked, JavaScript miners were slower than native miners. Second, will sites kick out users of older or mobile CPUs because they can't mine fast enough?
Among these "very few people" are Slashdot users who pride themselves on being "technically correct, the best kind of correct," as a Futurama character put it. I've seen several comments to the effect: "If you want a small form factor Linux device for lightweight development work, buy an Android tablet and pair a keyboard."
when people talk about Linux in general discussion they are referring to the set of operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
In practice, GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, and BusyBox/Linux have very different use cases: desktops and servers, phones and tablets, and routers and other appliances. To which of these do people refer "when people talk about Linux in general discussion"?
Had you included just a single sentence clarifying the difference between the original word "Linux" and the common usage, I doubt it would have been removed.
Better yet, write an entire article about that difference and link to it from this sentence in lead section of "Linux". No wait: Wikipedia already does exactly that.
Facts: Linus never named his kernel "linux kernel", the kernel's name is linux, as in Mach, NT, e.t.c., there's no such thing as Linux, a family of operating systems, because Linux refers to a kernel and is a registered trademark as "Linux".
Wikipedia's policy of a neutral point of view causes editors to use the name most commonly used by third-party reliable sources and teach the controversy, as in the "GNU/Linux naming controversy" article.
My own writing style is to use "GNU/Linux" for typical desktop and server distributions to distinguish them from Android, BusyBox-based small distributions, and other specialized operating environments built around Linux that contain little or no code from the GNU project. I have found "GNU/Linux" or "X11/Linux" the most succinct way to satisfy fans of Richard Stallman while ducking some Slashdot users' insinuation that a tablet running Android with a paired keyboard or a laptop running Chrome OS can adequately substitute for a laptop running Ubuntu. But because this writing style happens not to match that of the scholarly and mainstream media that Wikipedia relies on, Wikipedia does not use it.
The featured article mentions that both Chile and India had struck down the similar Free Basics program offered by Facebook for violating net neutrality.
Regardless what IDE I use I can debug just quite fine.
When a call into a proprietary library doesn't do what you expect it to do during debugging using your IDE, what steps do you take to determine why the call isn't doing what you expect it to do?
you can have those IDEs on a desktop
Is an IDE worth the price of a desktop to someone who does not already own a desktop because he regularly uses a smartphone and/or tablet to satisfy all of his other computing needs? If so, how can I convince people that this is the case?
and for Android there are no viable IDEs either that run on android devices.
the visa work is usually done by the company you work for.
Who cares about the requirements or amount of paper work?
The company I work for, as such a company might prefer hiring a citizen or permanent resident instead of a foreigner precisely because of the paperwork.
And on top of that there are plenty of countries where it is fun to work, if my job would be 'off shored' I would 'follow' the job and work in a similar job off shore, nothing is easier than that in our times.
Even with countries tightening their work visa requirements?
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All of the Twitter clients I have used have pretty good support for multiple Twitter logins. The website has zero such support (unless I've missed something? Would be happy to be proven wrong here).
If you use Multi-Account Containers, a feature of Mozilla Firefox, any website supports multiple logins. Create a container for accounts related to your brand and another for personal use, and Firefox will track your Twitter cookies separately for tabs belonging to each container. It's not interleaving, but it does let you switch between the two more easily.
Anti-script hardliners who don't want web pages to be interactive at all beyond link navigation and form submission because they believe a web browser ought to be a viewer for static documents, not an application platform. They prefer native applications that they can vet before installation.
Free software purists who refuse to run proprietary script, as described in the article "The JavaScript Trap" by Richard M. Stallman. They prefer to use or write a free native application that talks to the same web service that the site's proprietary script talks to.
People stuck on a browser with incomplete support for recent web standards, such as users of Safari for iOS or Edge for Windows 10 S.
Half your list is games, there are now LOTS of good games that run on Linux. If you look around you can find games like those on your list.
But none that are network-compatible with those on my list. Unlike business software, whose users can collaborate through a shared file format, different games do not interoperate in multiplayer. A user would have to get all his friends to purchase a different game and switch from their preferred game to that (possibly inferior) game.
I don't know your use case for Stone Edge so kind of hard for me to find a drop in replacement.
Consider the e-commerce back end of a toy shop. Tasks include adding and updating product information, taking orders from customers in person (POS), importing customer orders from the seller's account on online sales channels such as Amazon, purchasing stock to cover existing and future orders (comprising making a purchase order with a distributor, adjusting the PO quantities based on the invoice, and receiving it to stock), updating stock quantity on online sales channels, allocating stock to orders, and mobile or web applications to pick, pack, and ship.
Photoshop can probably be replaced with GIMP. This again would require some learning and probably some plugins to get all the features you need.
In Photoshop, an adjustment layer is a layer generated by applying one or more filters to the pixels in layers below it. It automatically updates itself when the layers below it change. It's sort of like a spreadsheet, where a cell can contain a formula for its value, or a makefile, which applies a recipe to some files to create another file. A web search produces results showing that this functionality is highly desired by users of GIMP but not implemented, such as "How to create the equivalent of an Adjustment Layer in an editor that does not support it?". What plugin for GIMP automates this process of tracking dependencies on lower layers and applying a filter when they change?
Adobe Animate can be replaced by a number of animation tools. Again you would have to find best for your use case.
The features I'm looking for in a replacement for Adobe Animate include timeline-based editing, automatic inbetweening, rendering the finished animation to video, and exporting to HTML5 vector animation using Canvas or SVG (which is much smaller in bytes than video). Slashdot users often mention Synfig Studio as a replacement for Adobe Animate, but "export" in Synfig Studio means something completely different. If I wanted to animate and just render to video, I'd probably use Blender, but exporting to HTML5 vector animation is important to users on slow or capped connections to the Internet.
In the end though I am too lazy to do all your homework for you.
Then a measurable advantage of sticking with Windows, at least for a small business without the resources to hire a specialist in migration to GNU/Linux, is that sticking with familiar industry-standard software requires spending less time==money on doing homework.
The very worst case you use virtualbox and run a VM for that program.
Because this VM would require purchasing an operating system license, for the purpose of the article, this would correspond to Betteridge's answer: "no".
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In the deliberate lack of an official definition of "GNU/", I have been defining "GNU/" as GNU Coreutils combined with two of GCC, Bash, Emacs, and shared glibc.
If you call a machine with a Linux kernel and GNU userspace utilities "GNU/Linux" does that mean a Windows machine with cygwin is a "GNU\Windows"?
Correct. That in fact is what "gwin" in Cygwin and "GW" in MinGW stand for. Likewise, a complete installation of DJGPP (with the compiler, Binutils, Coreutils, Make, and Bash) is GNU/MS-DOS or GNU/FreeDOS.
And a Mac with a bunch of GNU packages installed from home brew is running "GNU/macOS/BSD"?
Probably not, unless the user has replaced the Darwin counterpart to Coreutils with GNU Coreutils.
So what do you call a tablet running Android etc etc using tincore linux deploy to get an Ubuntu userland?
GNU/Linux. The "GNURoot Debian" app is also GNU/Linux.
I need toilet paper. Advertising has raised my awareness of the brands available and the attributes of their product.
So would a nonprofit product tester like Consumer Reports.
Which other sites are included with your subscription to Neue Zuercher Zeitung? If someone shares the URL of an article with you, and the article is in a publication other than Neue Zuercher Zeitung, how do you respectfully phrase that you decline to read the article?
considering you can mine Monero of about 1 dollar per day on an average quad-core CPU
First, last I checked, JavaScript miners were slower than native miners. Second, will sites kick out users of older or mobile CPUs because they can't mine fast enough?
very few people think of android as being Linux
Among these "very few people" are Slashdot users who pride themselves on being "technically correct, the best kind of correct," as a Futurama character put it. I've seen several comments to the effect: "If you want a small form factor Linux device for lightweight development work, buy an Android tablet and pair a keyboard."
You couldn't work in that industry without documented skill, knowlege and experience in the speciality for which you were employed.
Then how does one gain experience in the first place? It's like no one wanting to hire junior programmers anymore.
when people talk about Linux in general discussion they are referring to the set of operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
In practice, GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, and BusyBox/Linux have very different use cases: desktops and servers, phones and tablets, and routers and other appliances. To which of these do people refer "when people talk about Linux in general discussion"?
Had you included just a single sentence clarifying the difference between the original word "Linux" and the common usage, I doubt it would have been removed.
Better yet, write an entire article about that difference and link to it from this sentence in lead section of "Linux". No wait: Wikipedia already does exactly that.
Facts: Linus never named his kernel "linux kernel", the kernel's name is linux, as in Mach, NT, e.t.c., there's no such thing as Linux, a family of operating systems, because Linux refers to a kernel and is a registered trademark as "Linux".
Wikipedia's policy of a neutral point of view causes editors to use the name most commonly used by third-party reliable sources and teach the controversy, as in the "GNU/Linux naming controversy" article.
My own writing style is to use "GNU/Linux" for typical desktop and server distributions to distinguish them from Android, BusyBox-based small distributions, and other specialized operating environments built around Linux that contain little or no code from the GNU project. I have found "GNU/Linux" or "X11/Linux" the most succinct way to satisfy fans of Richard Stallman while ducking some Slashdot users' insinuation that a tablet running Android with a paired keyboard or a laptop running Chrome OS can adequately substitute for a laptop running Ubuntu. But because this writing style happens not to match that of the scholarly and mainstream media that Wikipedia relies on, Wikipedia does not use it.
The featured article mentions that both Chile and India had struck down the similar Free Basics program offered by Facebook for violating net neutrality.
The realization that it violates net neutrality is one reason that the article cites to wind down the program. Another is that people in the Republic of Angola were routinely uploading infringing copies of movies to Wikimedia Commons to exploit Wikipedia Zero.
Regardless what IDE I use I can debug just quite fine.
When a call into a proprietary library doesn't do what you expect it to do during debugging using your IDE, what steps do you take to determine why the call isn't doing what you expect it to do?
you can have those IDEs on a desktop
Is an IDE worth the price of a desktop to someone who does not already own a desktop because he regularly uses a smartphone and/or tablet to satisfy all of his other computing needs? If so, how can I convince people that this is the case?
and for Android there are no viable IDEs either that run on android devices.
In what way is AIDE not "viable"?
the visa work is usually done by the company you work for.
Who cares about the requirements or amount of paper work?
The company I work for, as such a company might prefer hiring a citizen or permanent resident instead of a foreigner precisely because of the paperwork.
Worst case you have to download an IDE
Until very recently (Swift Playgrounds), there wasn't a first-party IDE for iOS because of that platform's security restrictions.
Modern IDEs give you information, what exactly would they hide? Folding away doc comments?
Inability to debug into the system libraries of a proprietary operating system, for one.
But how do you program on a phone or tablet?
Try AIDE on an Android tablet.
Last I heard Apple forbids programming on their phones.
Since you heard last, Apple has loosened the policy, allowing things like Swift Playgrounds for iPad.
And on top of that there are plenty of countries where it is fun to work, if my job would be 'off shored' I would 'follow' the job and work in a similar job off shore, nothing is easier than that in our times.
Even with countries tightening their work visa requirements?
Result:
All of the Twitter clients I have used have pretty good support for multiple Twitter logins. The website has zero such support (unless I've missed something? Would be happy to be proven wrong here).
If you use Multi-Account Containers, a feature of Mozilla Firefox, any website supports multiple logins. Create a container for accounts related to your brand and another for personal use, and Firefox will track your Twitter cookies separately for tabs belonging to each container. It's not interleaving, but it does let you switch between the two more easily.
Does Safari support anything similar?
Do you think insistently referring to Muhammad Ali as "Cassius Clay" is appropriate, apart from discussion of the late boxer's childhood?
Who needs an app to a website?
Mostly three people:
Do Erris, Mactrope, willeyhill, westbake, Odder, ibane, deadzero, and the gang also confirm it?
How am I supposed to tweet from my Mac? A web browser?
Yes. What problems have you run into when accessing https://twitter.com/ from your web browser?
(And if any, were they related to Safari's habit of lagging behind Firefox and Chrome in supporting new features of CSS, JavaScript, and DOM?)
If you like the app you have, you can keep it.
That doesn't work once Twitter revokes the API key used by said app.
That's the idea. I'm just trying to figure out how to avoid having to install Cygwin just for its X server.
Half your list is games, there are now LOTS of good games that run on Linux. If you look around you can find games like those on your list.
But none that are network-compatible with those on my list. Unlike business software, whose users can collaborate through a shared file format, different games do not interoperate in multiplayer. A user would have to get all his friends to purchase a different game and switch from their preferred game to that (possibly inferior) game.
I don't know your use case for Stone Edge so kind of hard for me to find a drop in replacement.
Consider the e-commerce back end of a toy shop. Tasks include adding and updating product information, taking orders from customers in person (POS), importing customer orders from the seller's account on online sales channels such as Amazon, purchasing stock to cover existing and future orders (comprising making a purchase order with a distributor, adjusting the PO quantities based on the invoice, and receiving it to stock), updating stock quantity on online sales channels, allocating stock to orders, and mobile or web applications to pick, pack, and ship.
Photoshop can probably be replaced with GIMP. This again would require some learning and probably some plugins to get all the features you need.
In Photoshop, an adjustment layer is a layer generated by applying one or more filters to the pixels in layers below it. It automatically updates itself when the layers below it change. It's sort of like a spreadsheet, where a cell can contain a formula for its value, or a makefile, which applies a recipe to some files to create another file. A web search produces results showing that this functionality is highly desired by users of GIMP but not implemented, such as "How to create the equivalent of an Adjustment Layer in an editor that does not support it?". What plugin for GIMP automates this process of tracking dependencies on lower layers and applying a filter when they change?
Adobe Animate can be replaced by a number of animation tools. Again you would have to find best for your use case.
The features I'm looking for in a replacement for Adobe Animate include timeline-based editing, automatic inbetweening, rendering the finished animation to video, and exporting to HTML5 vector animation using Canvas or SVG (which is much smaller in bytes than video). Slashdot users often mention Synfig Studio as a replacement for Adobe Animate, but "export" in Synfig Studio means something completely different. If I wanted to animate and just render to video, I'd probably use Blender, but exporting to HTML5 vector animation is important to users on slow or capped connections to the Internet.
In the end though I am too lazy to do all your homework for you.
Then a measurable advantage of sticking with Windows, at least for a small business without the resources to hire a specialist in migration to GNU/Linux, is that sticking with familiar industry-standard software requires spending less time==money on doing homework.
The very worst case you use virtualbox and run a VM for that program.
Because this VM would require purchasing an operating system license, for the purpose of the article, this would correspond to Betteridge's answer: "no".