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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • They’ve been separate desktop environments from the start. From top to bottom they share nearly nothing. The compositors, window managers, toolkits and shells are all different.

    They also are ideologically opposed. If they merged, which direction would they go? The more feature-rich KDE? Or the more streamlined Gnome? Such a merger would lead to infighting and stagnation.

    This is before even talking about the actual code underlying both environments.

    I think it’s better for everyone if they stay as two separate projects.














  • The video is TL;DW for me right now, but there’s a comment on the video which is fascinating enough on its own to pique my interest:

    Back in 1997, a nasty October storm knocked down some power lines near my home. One of our dogs ended up getting her back legs paralyzed after going outside and had to be put down. We thought she stepped on a downed line, but after seeing your demonstration with the Hulk Hogan figure, I think I have a better understanding of what happened. Just going near the downed line would have been enough to do the damage.