Yeah, that’s true, but I think browsers and office software have two fundamentally different purpouses.

You see, a browser, altough surely used in professional settings, is also a broad enough tool that many people can use a lot for a myriad of other contexts. I may browse my work email, but also watch youtube on my free time, scroll through social media, download games, etc…

Now when talking about office suites, the objective is definetly geared towards the enterprises. Sure, you can use Calc as a way to quickly get a shopping list, but that is just the most superficial aspect of the software. In this environment, compatibility should, or even, must, be foccused on. The user doesn’t choose exactly what to use, but is forced to work with what his company provides or what works with his company’s files.

As such, altough I would love to have more innovation in LibreOffice, I totally understand why they follow a more compatabiliy-focused approach.

On a side note, is the trackpoint (the thinkpad’s red nipple) pattented? I know some dell’s have it, so I imagine they aren’t.

I would love to have third party keyboards with this type of integrated pointer device. That or some sort of tracball, which, by the way, are a great alternative to a mouse. Have been using them for 4 years now and never looked back.

Absolutely. We can still have matrix instances for chatting. There is nothing inherently bad about an inpermanent format, it has its place. However as the need of having anything last for more than a week, with the possibility of being occasionaly accessed years from now, a lemmy, forum-like, format is a must.

In my mind information storing needs two major things set straight from the get go: organization and sorting of information, and searchability. Discord, to my experience, barely has either.

I simply do not understand how a software for VoIP became the de facto choice for forums. It pains me to no end to try and find info on endless rolling chat format. It is, quite literally, the digital equivalent of being in a party where everyone just shout what they want to say and hope that the people on the other end can filter all the other hundred conversations and actually respond to it.

This is only worsened when you want to follow a project, a game for instance, and the devs only use that shitty platform. Now you are deprived on any news, important bugs and troubleshooting in general.

I’ve never used a forum when they were in their prime. But boy, do I wish they were more prevalent.

Tumbleweed is a fantastic distro and, in fact, the distro that made me settle in, stoping the distrohop. However, we must recognize that the openSuse way is a little different from many other distros, and the packaging options while vast, require more steps to get to than debian or arch, for example. New users might be thrown off by more commands needing sudo (to manager printers for example) or the codecs installation ( which is so easy that is almost a no braine, but still).

Overall openSuse became my favourite distro. My install of tumbleweed is now going for 3 years of everyday use, from gaming to image editing, all this without having the patented MS Windows bit rot. In all this time, only once I needed to do a rollback on a update. It is stable as a rock.

Would I recommend it to someone totally new? It’s hard to. The specifics of openSuse sometimes create some barries to new users. The file system (btrfs, by default), the codecs, the extra safe sudo policy, etc…

Now would I recommend it for a better acquainted linux user? Abso-fucking-lutely, best rolling realease you can find. Updates are relatively bleeding edge, and stable. And even if they aren’t, just roll back and go on with your day.

Very interesting. I do wish we had more firefox based browsers though. A firefox based qutebrowser would be very nice, or some other take on keyboard usability, but keeping the firefox background. Unfourtunately, I’ve read that mozilla’s backend is not as modular as chromium, leaving many of the alternative browsers contributing to google’s web hegemony.