It originally did not. Then it did for a time. Now it does not.

Global, and Linus.

Via uses 8 spaces in a tab (at least for me), while geany uses 4.

You know that editors let you change their defaults, right?

It’s wonderful what a bunch of skilled people following their passions can accomplish, isn’t it?

no easy way to get the standard set of fonts on it to replace Word’s library

I haven’t looked in years, but Microsoft’s Core Fonts might cover at least some of those. Does Mint have the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package?

For today’s lucky 5000:

https://www.zombo.com/

If I want to watch resource usage over time, KDE Plasma’s System Monitor does the job. I like that I can customize its panels and graph data from just about any sensor in the system.

For anything else, it’s usually command line tools like ps, pgrep, kill, and occasionally plain old top.

Do any Wayland compositors support it?

On KDE Plasma, I would stick with Kate and hide/disable some the fancier interface features. It might seem like overkill, but since it’s built from common components that other KDE apps use anyway, the effective resource consumption will probably be light. And Kate is quick.

On a Gtk desktop, you might try Mousepad. This is what I used before moving away from Xfce.

Scintilla my beloved

(This is the text editor component in Geany and Notepad++)

He’s doing it in the mindset of a non-techy person,

No. He went to significant lengths to circumvent the “non-techy” interface, drop into command line mode, disregard multiple plain English warnings, and manually override the safety systems, in order to force something that was clearly, obviously, undeniably wrong. That is not normal behavior, regardless of a person’s tech skills. That is pathological behavior, the likes of which would lead to serious injury or death if operating a common household appliance.

And then, after all that, he had the nerve to blame other people for the result.

I can’t believe so many of you are still not getting this.

Believe what you want. I have no interest in arguing with you.

For the sake of other readers, though, I will say that Linus Sebastian is unfit to give advice about computers. He overestimates his skills and knowledge, does sloppy work, and behaves irresponsibly before an audience.

He tried once. Poor judgment and reading comprehension resulted in him breaking his OS installation. He then loudly complained about the tools that had repeatedly warned him not to do what he chose to do anyway.

Make a split-screen video:

Left side: Windows user performing a system update.

Right Side: Linux user performing a system update. And then editing a document. And then answering some messages. And then a bit of shopping. And then playing a game. All while the Windows user is still waiting for the update to finish.

Then reveal that the Linux system has a fraction of the RAM and a much older CPU than the Windows system.

I wonder if they’re counting the SIMs in smartphones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card

the operating system does not interpret it in anyway.

*in any_way. ;)

doesn’t fill me with excitement.

I’m skeptical too, but I choose to retain some optimism in a world with so much terrible stuff. This project seems to have more than zero potential, without introducing obvious great harm.

We all look forward to the success of your superior alternative.

it’s not clear in the article what they’re doing with the waste they recover. Simply moving it around doesn’t eliminate the garbage. And the project does not appear to include a budget for recycling or otherwise repurposing what they recover.

I found this with three clicks on project’s web site:

“Once our containers are full of plastic onboard, we bring them back to shore for recycling. For each system batch, we are making durable and sustainable products. Supporters getting the products will help fund the continued ocean cleanup. Catch, rinse, recycle and repeat - until the oceans are clean. The sunglasses are a proof of concept for this.”

It might not seem like much yet, but it’s better than nothing, and we have to start somewhere.

What about Googling stuff offline?

The fearful side of Chesterton’s Fence.