It's funny (and depressing) because it's actually true despite the hyperbole.

Why does anyone still go through the trouble, for personal use, of buying and fighting against Windows terrible design decisions and crappy implementations, when there are so many great alternatives?

Because there aren't so many great alternatives.

There's MacOS, which requires expensive dongles (an Apple computer), and has some of its own systemic issues.

And there's Linux, in different subtly incompatible distros, with its own share of problems, and a non-starter if you need and/or want to use many proprietary staples, from the Creative Suite to video, music, and business apps...

Windows doesn't require a computer?

As in - if you already have a windows PC and someone says "you should try a Mac" you can't just install MacOS, it requires you to buy a whole new PC from Apple. With Linux you can at least just install it in a second partition and use it that way untill you're sure it works for you, zero money required.

The point they were making is that a Windows user generally (Hackintoshing aside) can't just install MacOS in their existing computer; it requires purchasing another, Apple-brand computer.

One of a generic PC-compatible machine, available in all kinds of prices, with all kinds of specs, from all kinds of vendors - one of which you likely already own anyway.

For personal use - because I play games that only run on windows(and it's my main social interaction every week so "just play other games" is not a viable option)

For work - because Visual Studio is the best IDE if you're a C++ programmer and if your toolchains only work on windows(so anything to do with PS5/Xbox/Switch development).

Linux usage is clearly increasing, so that answers your question.

Microsoft Office, Paint.NET, Adobe products.

The amount of attention and care that went into the user interface is mind-boggling. I love the (in hindsight obvious) trick of having a 2D value picker with the step size as a second dimension. This is notoriously difficult to get right, especially for creative software: sometimes a 0.001 difference changes everything in your scene, other times you need a 1000 step size to see any effect. Not forcing an opinion on "surely this will be enough granularity for everyone" is refreshing.

Thanks for the ton of OSS work that is going into this and keep it up!

I think SideFX was the first to do that with Houdini. It's one of my favourite micro-UX features of high-end graphics software, coming in at a close second to Nuke's use of both linear and non-linear scales for slider values.

The better solution is reducing America's dependency on cars in urban centers to make room for vehicles which actually need to drive, like emergency services, while the rest of the general public uses an excellent public transportation network, whenever politicians finally grow the pair to build one.

Unfortunately HN is still not ready for that discussion despite the year being 2026 in a few days.

>ctrl-f "gun control"

>0 results

Never change, HN.

Instead, there are people arguing for increased surveillance. Which even if implemented "correctly" would not prevent crime.

Might be used to track women seeking abortions though.

How did banning drugs work out? Alcohol?

These things are not equal. Weed doesn't kill tens of bystanders in an area a second. We can actually look at places that have banned guns and it's done amazing. The reason to not do this are extremely thin at best.

It's not just soulless, it's plain ugly. You'd think with their budget these companies would try harder.

It drives me mad to see that companies use AI to make garbage for 1/10th of the cost instead of just leveraging it to halve the cost while not losing quality…

>A creativity tool for kids (and adults; consider memes).

Fixed that for you: (and adults; consider porn).

I don't think you realize the extent of the “underground” nsfw genai community, which has to rely on open-weight models since API models all have prude filters.

Don't forget the expensive sport cars.

I've never downloaded the Twitter app, only ever used the web. I live in Europe. I don't use VPNs. My account is marked as being located… in "the USA".

Is this a default fallback because they have no useful signal (the account is a decade old)?

Anyway, if it is this unreliable even in a very simple case, I do not see the point of trusting it to expose bot farms in Russia or India.

I am disappointed that this doesn't modify the underlying pdf structure (which is a horror show, I know) but instead relies on fairly lossy OCR back&fourths.

I wish an agent with a validation and rendering tools could instead manipulate the structure to accomplish those edits way less destructively, checking its progress with the tools.