Why? They did it right…

But Wine could handle the case insensitivity though? NTFS is case sensitive.

I was looking into this recently and I didn’t know this but NTFS is actually designed by competent people and is fully case sensitive.

For backwards of course Microsoft had to make the file APIs case insensitive, but the actual filesystem is case sensitive.

Also, presumably because this is a real turn-off for developers there is actually an option in Windows to sort of make specific directories case sensitive. Wild right?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity

Damn straight. I thought bcachefs was a modern filesystem? Why is it case insensitive? Huge red flag.

I thought OEMs only paid like $10 for Windows?

I don’t think it’s quite a titanic enough endeavour to put slow in quotes. It’s been in development for 16 years and only got a stable support for screenshots a few months ago. Does drag and drop work yet?

IMO at this point it is reasonable to say that the idea of having a shared protocol and then making every desktop environment implement the entire display server was not a good one. The Linux community does not have enough manpower to make that work well.

SiFive P670

From what I can tell this might be almost as fast as a RPi 5 (single core). Which is almost as fast as my 12 year old i5-2500K. I guess we’ll find out when it is available.

I definitely think we’ll get an M1/Zen class RISC-V CPU eventually but I doubt this is it.

They’re a kind of backup…

Two things:

1. Desktop requires mature CPUs (large out-of-order designs with high IPC) and there just aren’t really any of those yet. They’re starting to arrive (e.g. XiangShan which is even open source!) but as far as I know there isn’t a single chip available to buy that’s faster than a Raspberry Pi 4.

2. Microcontrollers can get away with only the basic instruction set (add, multiply, load, store etc.) but for high performance you need a ton of extensions that are considered standard. x86 and ARM have had decades to build them up but in RISC-V a lot of them are only recently ratified (e.g. Vector) or still in the process of being defined.

I would say we might see cheap Android phones with RISC-V CPUs in maybe 5 years. Though there’s an additional difficulty there in that you need to emulate ARM for games, and I don’t think anyone is working on that.

Yeah unfortunately I have to use Linux for work. I have considered WSL but… I dunno even with its many bugs I think WSL is probably worse. I have no idea how you get X apps working under it for example.

I don’t see why that would cause lock ups? I’m pretty sure it’s just a driver bug. Didn’t used to do it but I upgraded the kernel recently and then it started.

Interesting thread anyway - do you know if they ever fixed the defaults?

Yeah that was the first thing I did - 16 to 32GB but apparently the hardware doesn’t support more. At least that’s what the IT guys told me and it isn’t worth fighting them.

Seems a bit shit of the hardware to me. I bought a second hand desktop for very cheap and it came with 128GB which seems like a more reasonable amount for a professional programmer…

Nah this is like once a week. Windows (post XP) crashes on me maybe once a year. It’s much more stable than desktop Linux in my experience.

Some Dell/Intel business laptop. Nothing exotic.

I was forced to enable swap because it I run out of RAM without swap then 95% of the time my laptop hard reboots. Adding a ton of swap fixed it.

My next issue is that sometimes it just hard-freezes. Zero warning, under no load, I can’t even move the mouse. Linux on the desktop!

No.

It kind of is. For a very long time it was the only option.

Yeah there’s more stuff that runs in the shell. But pretty much all the things you mentioned would work on a VT100 from the 70s. This is about modernising the terminal itself.

Hell, Linux terminal emulators don’t even have a “clear screen & scroll-back” keyboard shortcut like Command-K on Mac. There’s no command output history, there are no auto-complete popups, editing commands is still extremely basic (no multiline input for example). The command prompt doesn’t even have the text editing capabilities of Notepad.

No the point of terminals is not to make people that dislike mice happy. They simply were created before mice were common and haven’t been updated at all. This is an attempt to do that.

I don’t think this is intended to fundamentally change what a terminal/shell does - it doesn’t even go as far as Nushell. It’s just about modernising the interface.