They (and every other tech company) have been doing this type of thing for nearly 20 years. You might see some whinging about it in some corners of the Internet, like here, but most people don’t know or don’t give a shit.

It sucks.

If you look at it from an incentive view point you have to pay people more to Capitan a sinking ship.

Also worth noting is that market share may or may not be relevant. Android has a higher market share world wide compared to Apple, however Apple users generate more revenue.

All this to say that the op graph is at best an incomplete picture of things designed to rile up people who lack critical thinking.

The CEOs salary has almost zero affect on Firefox’s market share.

That decline can be explained relatively simply by two things.

One, people are increasing using mobile devices and very very rarely do they install another browser so they are using Chrome on Android and Safari on Apple devices.

Two, Google was/is using Google dot com to promote chrome. That is not something Mozilla could ever replicate.

Then there is the other bit where Mozilla tries to diversify their revenue sources and the faithful skewer them for it and tell them “just work on Firefox” when it is clear the market is unwilling to pay for a browser at all.

Hopefully you don’t live in the US where your insurance company can buy that data and use it to deny you coverage or raise your rates.

They already do it with cars why not CPAP machines.

Code lives and dies by its plugins. It can range from heavier weight ide to lighter weight editor depending on what plug ins are loaded.

It definitely improved over the years but even at the time code was leaps and bounds ahead.

People who rag on vscode’s code were not around when electron editors were starting to take off.

Atom and Brackets had terrible performance.

That’s just a side effect and what keeps the ball rolling. The entire point is that they give Israel money and the Israelis turn around and spend it on American “defense” contractors. It’s a round about subsidy for American industry with the bonus that they get a lackey in the middle east.

uv is good but it needs a little more time in the oven.

For the moment I would definitely recommend poetry if you are not a library developer. Poetry’s biggest sin is it’s atrocious performance but it has most of the features you need to work with Python apps today.

The 1980s is when the baby boomers discovered the stockmarket but hadn’t learned from the 1920s why some forms of regulation exist and then they just continued that mentality right up to the present.

Is it just my hardware?

It is not your hardware

Am i using linux just wrongly for years?

Not really

Is it my fault?

Not really

The main issue from what I can tell is you are trying to play older windows games which can be pretty hit or miss. More recent pc games often support the steam deck which is usually a good sign for compatibility.

Gaming on Linux has greatly improved over the last couple years (especially thanks to proton/steam deck) but if you are trying to run older games that were never designed to run to it or you want to play online games with aggressive anti-cheat it is still going to be a bit of a struggle.

I would recommend sticking to an Arch based distro like EndeavourOS (as it is similar to the SteamOS) or a Debain based distro and not swap around too much so you can get a feel for it without having a bunch of things change on you all the time like package names and the like.

All that said if your jam is older windows games and you have access to windows and are tired of messing with the OS and just want to play games just use windows, try linux another day.

Some games are trickier than others for sure. Are you using protondb as a reference?

Anno 1404 is a 15 year old game with aggressive DRM so I could tell right away that it would be one of the more tricky titles.

I’ve been trying fin Droid which works well but it’s definitely a work in progress.

I mean that is true but there is some nuance.

At one time it was a cheap way to protect your site from drive by scripts and make your users help pay for that protection.

They still work in that way on say the comment section of a tiny WordPress blog because the cost to solve them isn’t worth what a random boner pill ad is worth.

The issue now (made worse recently by LLMs) is that more bots then ever are scraping any and every thing so people are putting captchas on every bit of every web app content they have. This increases the work of your users while it only slows down the bots. The hope is that the cost to solve is slightly higher than the value of the data.

I mean if they just wait a bit they are one road grinder away from a new road.

I do enjoy the rust compiler error messages. They are nicely formatted

You might say he was very svelte

The word cancelled has lost all meaning.

I understand it’s not for everyone but I jumped ship to Linux 10 years ago or so. The defining moment was me disabling Cortana only to have her reappear after an update.

At least with Linux when I’m fighting the OS it doesn’t feel like the OS developers are fighting back.

I go there to buy Nintendo games because I don’t trust Nintendo not to do weird crap with their digital goods.