iPhone 4s with native resolution textures felt truly magical.

not this flat on flat, grey and text as buttons shite that has pervaded UI for the last decade+

Windows 10 is only looked on favourably because Windows 11 was so bad, most people stuck to Windows 7 when 10 was popular- same concept.

But its MacOS that has had the sharpest decline of those presented.

You can get some royalty fee's reduced by launching on Epic Games Store but that's it.

Most Unreal Engine games are distributed by Steam.

ALSO, fun fact while we're here.. to display the Unreal Engine logo on startup you're supposed to ask Epic Games for permission; but since it's the default project splash screen (meant to be replaced) people just assume that they want the publicity and that it's part of using the engine- Epic doesn't feel like enforcing this because they don't see the point.

So, feel free to remove it, and if you see it, just know that the developers very likely didn't read the agreement they signed when they started using the Engine :)

Source: the last unreal engine technical advisory board in Stockholm; I too didn't read this from the agreement ...

For those not in the know, Google lobbied ICANN to get the name and in their application they stated (repeatedly) that the intent was to buy it so that it could be reserved; as .dev was already used by developers and if someone bought it for commercial purposes it would harm the developer community.[0]

.... they then proceeded to start selling them.

Leading to all kinds of issues, the exact issues that they raised...

https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/397

https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/433

https://danielbachhuber.com/switch-laravel-valet-from-dev-to...

https://community.localwp.com/t/dev-domain-doesnt-work/4277

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2017/11/29/google_d...

[0]: https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationde...

You still didn’t answer any question I posed about UX though, since that was what we were talking about and I have levied specific criticisms.

Can you name a UI/UX improvement in desktop design (that KDE doesn't have) since 2010 to warrant this being a negative?

I lean your way of course, it’s not totally arbitrary, but where we draw a line tends to be a bit arbitrary.

I should applaud their efforts, and I get that much of it is voluntary, but their bugs are numerous, notable and the way they interact with the rest of the universe (both people with accessibility needs, and the wider developer ecosystem on linux) can most accurately be described as arrogant and hostile.

KDE is the bastion of maturity here, and I would agree that it is mature.

I’m not sure how the love for GNOME continues when KDE (while not my personal choice) has clearly been running circles around it since GNOME3 and the gap has only widened since that change too.

Maybe that was the point, if its not front and center then nobody will use the social features.

Regardless, I think its hard to balance UI for normies and UI for techies, I think theres also a lot of brogrammers who might think they like being techies but their version of tech is lots of padding, whitespace, diffused colouring and not information density and consistency.

Personally, I have a negative almost visceral reaction when my tools change, because I learn my tools intimately and create expectations of where things will be- but this is also why I avoid tools which don’t have consistency in their UI too.

MacOS’s implementation is an order of magnitude or more slower than (say) FreeBSD though, so its not a valid comparison that the syscall simply exists.

Another example of a syscall performing differently would be gettimeofday() in OpenBSD vs linux, its an extremely cheap operation in Linux but quite costly in OpenBSD despite being identical at the kernel boundary.

if we bundle it- its as Linux to people as edge is to Windows. It’s “the same” perceptually.

Have you subscribed to Mozilla VPN?!

How about your Canonical Pro subscription?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exapunks?wprov=sfti1

The EU is no longer the largest economic bloc in the world, but that happened due to Brexit.