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New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Windows native app development is a mess"

Conan_Kudo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:56:24 +0000

Yes, that is true, but in practice nobody has ever done that. And the material complexity of offering that mode is higher than just dynamically linking the library.

Also, modern compilers make this method much harder to use. It is much harder to stably relink object files like that than to just use the normal dynamic link method.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Windows native app development is a mess"

Conan_Kudo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:26:30 +0000

> Edit: Some comments mention Qt which could also work although how large is the runtime? Can it be compiled statically?

You need a commercial license for that, but yes you could. But since applications are typically distributed with install bundles that put into application-local program files directories, it's not super-important as long as you only cherry-pick the Qt libraries you need.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say"

Conan_Kudo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:49:40 +0000

RHEL 10 lacks 32-bit x86 packages, so it goes past that date. RHEL 9 support ends before that date.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "A bug is a bug, but a patch is a policy: The case for bootable containers"

Conan_Kudo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:55:27 +0000

It's pretty much rpm-ostree. Nobody bothered to make those workflows performant, so if you need to apply updates separately, it's going to suck. The OSTree download can be fast if you have a fast connection to the Fedora server, but it's not mirrored and there's no mirror network support (so no geographically close downloads). To be fair, bootc has this problem too because container tooling in general can't support mirror networks currently.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

Conan_Kudo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:24:23 +0000

If people believe it, that's enough. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to mess with people enough.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices"

Conan_Kudo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:53:07 +0000

I think it's also worth noting that the Dockerfile format is still driven by Docker, and there have been zero extensions to the format by Podman folks, so Containerfile==Dockerfile.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood– they pay for proprietary groupware"

Conan_Kudo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:50:00 +0000

Microsoft has effectively ended support for the self-hosted versions of the groupware stack. So between Microsoft and Google (since both are SaaS), I would pick Google. Especially as I've had to administer both solutions before, and I would never voluntarily choose Microsoft 365 ever again.

And yes, you can regularly export your data out of Google Workspace and there are tools that can process that data and use it easily enough.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood– they pay for proprietary groupware"

Conan_Kudo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:54:14 +0000

SUSE used Teams for years (particularly under Melissa Di Donato, who made everyone use it). I used to participate in some of the community project meetings that wound up being on Teams because it was the approved solution they could use. It was the reason why the openSUSE Project deployed a Jitsi instance.

They do not use Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Teams anymore. They use Google Workspace just like everyone else now (the mail headers tell you that). I don't know anything about their workflows, though.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

Conan_Kudo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:19:47 +0000

The climate makes it work. I wish it was like that for my high school, but alas we just had the stifling building.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

Conan_Kudo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:27:55 +0000

Linus got counseling to get better at communication. Even he recognized that was bad. Don't use him as an example to accept bad people.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Adobe Animate will be discontinued"

Conan_Kudo — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:11:19 +0000

The web is awful as a programming environment. It's popular because it's everywhere, not because it's good.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "What has Docker become?"

Conan_Kudo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:04:22 +0000

Well, technically the technology was originally built by IBM folks, as that's where LXC came from. But otherwise yes, your point makes sense.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do"

Conan_Kudo — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:34:32 +0000

The original goal of DevOps never happened. Companies immediately jumped on this with "rationalizations" and "integrations" to make it so fewer people were in charge of more things.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

Conan_Kudo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:36:40 +0000

This is basically how most other CI systems work. GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildbot, Cirrus CI, etc. are all other systems I've used and they work this way.

I find GitHub Actions abhorrent in a way that I never found a CI/CD system before...

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "KDE onboarding is good now"

Conan_Kudo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:03:04 +0000

PySide is supported. The KDE Frameworks Python bindings work on top of PySide.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

Conan_Kudo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:45:14 +0000

I believe GitHub is under a different group (CoreAI), not DevDiv.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

Conan_Kudo — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:45:55 +0000

None of the alternative forges have a better issue tracker implementation. For the most part, they are basically copies of GitHub. No hope there. :(

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

Conan_Kudo — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:52:33 +0000

If you use KDE Plasma (like with Fedora KDE or Kinoite), you do not need Flatseal, as the functionality is integrated into System Settings.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

Conan_Kudo — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:29:07 +0000

Ask them, don't ask us. They have a public interface, you can ask them to change the name to something unique.

New comment by Conan_Kudo in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

Conan_Kudo — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:27:55 +0000

The Start menu is React Native, but Outlook is now an Electron app.