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Interesting, I think it’s different for structural engineering because you’re doing calculations in accordance with a code of practice and the spreadsheet needs to be adapted to tweak the inputs and outputs of a standard formula and apply it slightly differently for different bridges / structural arrangements. I’ve written loads of spreadsheets that have been used and adapted by other people in my company, I honestly don’t think they are that difficult to understand (or people wouldn’t have been able to build on them and adapt them).
I can see that lab software is quite different, especially if you have very well defined procedures and you are repeating exactly the same test again and again with the same inputs and outputs.
In structural engineering (bridge design etc), we use quite complicated spreadsheets for calculations; a database wouldn’t be the right tool for that job. We use excel because everyone knows how to use it and it’s easy to print to PDF and see the inputs and outputs and any graphical summaries you have added. Using a spreadsheet makes it easy to check and easy to adapt/change when you want to do a slightly different calculation next time.
I’ve tried building spreadsheets of similar complexity in libreoffice and it’s true they are very slow in comparison and more prone to crashing.
Libreoffice works well for some tasks and I enjoy using it at home but honestly if I tried to use it at work it would cut my productivity significantly. I’m probably using it more intensively than most people though.
Was not expecting that! What a dark character arc :D
What do you use nowadays?
Auto updates works really well for me so far!
I’ve wanted this for years; in the past manually flashing the privileged extension after every system update was such a pain that I quickly gave up on it.
HP are pretty awful when it comes to shenanigans with ink cartridges and all that, but HPLIP is great and deserves some credit.
Yeah and you also need execute permissions to read what’s in a directory, so 666 for the whole system means you basically lose access to 99% of files
In situations like this can’t you get superuser privileges back using grub?
It used to be quite a fun place, back before 2016… then it got flooded with extreme right wing people who didn’t stick to their containment boards.
Boards like /g/ (technology) had some good information.
It would be interesting to see post count excluding bots, to see if actual user post numbers are increasing
Lack of screen tearing is a good point if it makes a difference on that person’s hardware.
My thought wasn’t so much about recommending xorg (or not), more about whether the user would even be aware what that meant, or care at the point when they start using Linux. Kind of like launching straight into a flame war about systemd. In theory they (or their distro) should be able to switch the backend without the user noticing
What difference would this make to a new Linux user? Basically none, right?
Interesting, thanks. I had a feeling snaps would be in the list!
I’m cirious about what you dislike about Ubuntu?
Just paste it into the end of the file, save and close it, then run “source ~/.bashrc” in the terminal to force bash to read the new settings (or close the terminal and open it again).
Is Pop!_OS really that popular? I started using Linux about 10 years ago and it wasn’t around then, so I never tried it in my distro hopping days. I see it’s developed by System76 so I can see why you’d choose it on their hardware, but is there any point doing that on other hardware?
Used conversations for years before switching to Matrix, really like it.
And people who have no time install gentoo? Pull the other one :D