Servo is still making quick progress though.

https://servo.org/wpt/

Every source I’ve seen has shown rust and c++ to be very similar in terms of performance.

Blender was also used a bit in Everything Everywhere All At Once

Swift is decent, one of the biggest .net (c#) people gave a talk at godotcon about whay he likes it better than c#

It works cross platform, it’s just developed by apple

Truly only the most useful of functions for this great operating system

It’s because Windows has to save its keyboard combinations for the important things, like opening a new LinkedIn tab.

they still have the lead, here are some screenshots from notebookcheck

I would never use MacOS myself but I get the ‘it just works’ aspect and the crazy energy efficiency of Apple’s hardware, also some tech youtubers I respect like Jeff Geerling and JDH use it

Now, iOS on the other hand… (I was seeing if a family member’s ipad would work as a drawing tablet for Blender recently using the Moonlight app (which actually supports pressure sensitivity btw), but USB streaming doesn’t work because apple ties that to its hotspot and therefore having cellular, and the 3rd party apps are all removed from the app store, its just so stupid that I have the ipad and the cable and yet I can only transfer data over wifi)

honestly if I heard someone say “I technically have linux with me right now” I would expect them to pull out an Android phone and say that Android is based on the Linux kernel (it is, its just not what anyone means when they say ‘linux’, its a pretty good example of how ‘linux’ refers to the OS and not the kernel)

I know a lot of people are fine with a paid plan, I’ve just seen what has happened to some projects like Fusion 360 where they slowly take away more and more features from the free version, slowly decrease support, and all new features go to the pro version. I would be surprised if this happens to ubuntu, but I don’t want to take that chance.

You’re acting like there isn’t another option. I could just go use Arch with KDE Plasma or something instead, or maybe Fedora which is at least somewhat separated from the ‘pro version’ (red hat)

Out of all of the projects that I can think of in recent memory that started as big open source useful things, only VLC Media Player managed to avoid turning into garbage, and it’s because the lead developer is a saint.

the Linux Kernel, Blender, Godot, Lemmy are some examples that come to mind, or maybe I’m just not understanding what you’re trying to say here

I’m never going to feel fully satisfied using an OS that has an official ‘pro’ version.

MacOS!

As little downtime as possible is actually better than having more downtime, as the major problems come from heating/cooling cycles

Some things like vr also just barely work without a powerful GPU

I have a 3060 but with the sheer number of pixels that my reverb g2 has its really not enough