Why don’t you explain your arguments or make counter arguments instead of attacking your opponent. How do I matter here?

I am not a Zorin OS fanboy or anything, but honestly I don’t see anything scummy about requiring payment from the user to get access to certain features of the product. It’s just shareware. It’s their product FOSS or not. I think they make it clear about what you get for free and what you don’t. If you don’t like that you don’t have to use their product and you can use an alternative instead. It’s not like they were a monopoly in the world of Linux distros and you have no other option. I see nothing scummy about this. It would be scummy if they would do some kind of false advertising (adverties features you actually don’t get or adverties features in a misleading way) or if they started moving features from the free to the pro version that used to be free, because some people may have relyed on these features.

Can you elaborate? Because to me this feels like saying that the local grocery shop is scummy because it wants people to pay instead of relying on donations. If the whole OS was paid like RedHat Linux is than it would be OK or you consider that to be also a case of taking advantage of users who don’t know any better.

Flutter uses its own UI engine. It does not rely on any webview AFAIK.

By contrast, Flutter minimizes those abstractions, bypassing the system UI widget libraries in favor of its own widget set. The Dart code that paints Flutter’s visuals is compiled into native code, which uses Impeller for rendering. Impeller is shipped along with the application, allowing the developer to upgrade their app to stay updated with the latest performance improvements even if the phone hasn’t been updated with a new Android version. The same is true for Flutter on other native platforms, such as Windows or macOS.

https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/architectural-overview#flutters-rendering-model

You are kind of right. I should have thought about that before commenting.

I am not educated enough about this, but don’t these kind of games unnecesarrily strain all the servers that host the packages for people that really need them for download and most of these people run these servers for free in good will and faith that they will serve meaningful needs with positive impact? I am sorry for spoiling the fun, but I felt like I had to point this out.

At least you can still get a functional and minimalist homepage on Firefox by disabling it.

You can do that on Edge too btw.

Can’t Python be translated into machine code and packaged into a binary? I swear I have no experience in OS development, just curious.

One of the few supporrting extensions on mobile and also you can move the toolbar to bottom to reach it with your thumb like a normal human and do not have to lift your hand to reach it like in Chrome mobile?

Isn’t this a problem with every package/library system? Is there really a solution to this that doesn’t limit packages with how they handle their dependencies?

This may also be about trust. npm probably could limit a number of dependencies that a single package can have with an arbitrary limit, but they don’t do that, because they trust the developers they won’t misuse their options. Well…

Node packaging is fucked. Node packaging remains fucked.

I am sorry, but as a noobie user of npm I don’t understand. It works pretty well for me if you use it normally for what it is supposed for.

Thank you for your explanation! From what I have read ‘#pragma once’ solves the problem with mutiple includes for most modern compilers, but it’s always better to write the import guards for better compatability?

Where possible, maintain the right-click-view-source affordance. The beauty of the early web was that it was always possible to “peek behind the curtains”.

Just make the source code availible behind a visible link (hosted on Github or another similiar platform if possible). I don’t see this being a problem by any means.

5. Rule - Prefer Naked HTML

HTML? Naked?? Man, I always did 😍.

Ouch! Thank you for noting.

And also FOSS is just cool. That’s a cherry on top.

You can download any visual studio code extension from the visual studio extensions marketplace as far as my experience goes. There’s a “download extension” link for every extension which will give you a *.vsix file. Only pity is that you won’t get any automatic updates for the extension.

8 just took a look and the VS marketplace website on my mobile and look at what I have found under the “resources” section! This is same for every extension.

AFAIK you can download every extension as vsix file from vs code web marketplace and then import it into VSCodium. That’s how I have been installing missing extensions so far and it works well.