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  • Whoever thought this “is what House deserves” did not understand the character at all.

    So long as he got to “solve the puzzle”, he would not care much afterwards, relatively speaking.

    It would definitely not punish him. Killing the patient before being able to diagnose & cure them, that would for instance.










  • There was a whole team of “engineers” that once told me, “using infrastructure as Code obfuscates things, using the GUI allows us to see exactly what is happening!”

    They did not appreciate it when I told them to “git gud, or GTFO”.

    Subsequently the company hired 5 more automation engineers like me and the two dozen of ClickOps “engineers” were let go. Our productivity is even higher with the 6 of us compared to more than two dozen of them.

    GUI is nice for hobbyists and mainstream consumers.



  • Or throw their support behind certain distros with said emulation layers, maybe even a desktop environment like Plasma with a “Microsoft theme”.

    Honestly I think it is a great idea either way.

    Regardless of their commercial goals, if they put their weight into supporting the Linux ecosystem we’d undoubtedly benefit as a whole. For instance from common upstream bug fixes and increased user adoption of Linux by their remaining loyalist customers.