Brave Search is awful for non-English results. Startpage is decent but only because it’s basically Google results.

Spooky

I was wondering if this happend again so soon, since I already updated last week.

It’s a great tool but note that by default it upgrades EVERYTHING, up to and including production cloud environments if you are connected to any.

I didn’t say otherwise. I actually use both GNOME and KDE. GNOME on my personal machine and KDE on the work laptop.

I guess it’s preference. For some reason GNOME looks/feels better than KDE for me. I can’t even explain why.

Visual Studio Ultimate is so heavy though. I wouldn’t want to use it for anything other than the languages it was designed for.

It’s so nice to be excited about my OS again. I remember as a kid, I used to be really excited about Windows updates. People were cynical about Microsoft even back then, but I remained loyal to Windows for years.

Only last year did I finally move to Linux as my OS (although I still use Windows for gaming). Since then every following Linux news is always exciting. New versions of distros, desktop environments and software always bring interesting improvements.

Meanwhile on the Windows side, most noticeable updates just bring more ads, tracking, forced Edge recommendations and forced logins. Ironically the last Windows feature I remember being genuinely excited for was WSL 2.

Don’t they typically do minor anti-burn in changes during idle, basically having a built-in screensaver?

That’s what the display makers claim, in order to avoid too many customer complaints. In reality you’re still likely to get burn-in within a few years of monitor use, and when you ask for warranty support you’ll get denied claiming “you used the display wrong”.

With the increasing popularity of OLED displays, screensavers might make a comeback. Although I still think OLED displays aren’t worth it.

Do you remember what the original was?

The world didn’t exist before 1970.