I believe the polygonal logo style was first used by super mario bros. 3 (at least for the shape, it didn't have the alternating colors yet as it was all blue). It isn't on the nes boxes but it is on the title screen and on the famicom box.

Even if you get an error from the software, consider that you might not be using it as intended or setup properly.

"Security" laws extending the powers of the police and creating new ways to criminalize protest have been passed at a constant rhythm over the years since Sarkozy's time. After the state of urgency of 2015, part of the dispositions where simply put into law permanently.

Police has been increasingly violent during protests, bringing back old forbidden tactics and squads formerly dissolved for their violence (voltigeurs).

While there has been no dissolution of leftist movement and no political violence from the left since "action directe" in the 80's, there have been multiple ones (or attempts) in recent times, like the one from yesterday of an ecological movement.

Anti-terrorist laws are used to detain ecologists or protesters indefinitely, like in the case of the "8th november" affair from this topic, which has seen a person kept in solitary (hence, tortured) for 16 months without even being convicted.

Which is kinda unsettling. At least it makes it clear how they view their users.

My take on each of the OSes was:

AIX and the associated IBM stuff is kind of a mess. I encountered a bug where /etc/filesystems (fstab equivalent) was parsed differently during boot than when using the mount command manually. The focus seemed to be on the use of the menu-driven smit utility as the primary admin tool, with automation of admin tasks an afterthought. The builtin commands are often not very practical, requiring multiple steps to do things that you're used to do in one on Linux. Installing some open-source tools is essential to sanity. Some of IBM's own tools are using expect on their own software (looking at you lpar_netboot).

SCO is clearly unmaintained stuff that looks like it dates from 30 years ago. At least it's simple to use.

Solaris had some nice features, like Zones or ZFS, but much to my dismay I couldn't play with them as I was made to install an old version of the OS as the newer version wasn't listed as supported by the version of Sybase that was to be installed on it.

Projects merged changes because they wanted them, not because their goodwill was abused to make them merge anything. People got systemd on their OSes because they chose OSes whose developers chose to move to systemd.

It's not like Lennart comes to your home with a gun if you install OpenBSD.

They have been developing software, that enough people have deemed useful to include it in their distributions. Some have disagreed, and have made other choices. No one was forced to do anything, there have been no "foisting" and the "need" for Devuan is a subjective opinion.

There is really no need to transform purely technical arguments into personal attacks. This just discourages participating into free software development.

I have it running on an up to date system. There is definitely an issue that it's a pain to get working, especially for people not familiar with the cli or ldd and such, as it wants a few things that are not here by default. But once you get it the few libs it needs and ossp to emulate the missing oss in the kernel, there is no issue with gameplay, graphics or audio aside from the intro video that doesn't run.

So I guess the issue is that the compatibility is not user friendly ? Not sure how that should be fixed though. Even if Loki had shipped all the needed lib with the program, it would still be an issue not to have sound due to distro making the choice of not building oss anymore.

Seconded. I'm irrationally annoyed that it gets created and sometimes filled with .desktop files while my DE doesn't even use it.

> At the very least, we should get rid of the "Templates" folder. I still have no idea wtf that's meant to be used for.

You can place files in the "Templates" dir to serve as templates for the "right-click > new document" feature in nautilus and some other file explorers.

I suggest Kobold for whatever kind of process we need to name next.

Although I would have preferred if the hierarchy was reversed, so instead of having ~/.var/app//{cache,config,data} for each application, I could have all files of a category in the same place as to be able to manage them more easilly (say remove all the cache, version all the config), like it is now for the applications that respect XDG dirs.

That quote is present in (originates from ?) the movie "Kingdom Of Heaven", in the workshop of the main character Balian, where it is translated as "What man is a man who does not make the world better?".