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Every Linux Sucks. 2009 - 2024. All free to watch for everyone.

Every single "Linux Sucks" show (all 15 years worth) can be found right here:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4633552/every-linux-sucks-in-order-free-for-all-to-watch

Also: "The Great Myths of Computer History" is a little over a week away!

This won't be news to all of you here on Locals -- I recorded this primarily for those on YouTube, Substack, and elsewhere. But since I recorded it... I'm posting it here on Locals too. 😎

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I criticized System76's Cosmic for recreating GNOME. I was wrong.

Two days ago I published a show where I was critical of System76's Cosmic Desktop Environment -- for re-creating a desktop that looks, acts, and feels like a 99% clone of GNOME.

Specifically I had two critiques. After thinking on it... I nailed one of them. But the other? Whew-doggy! One of those critiques was completely wrong.

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November 22, 2023
The futility of Ad-Blockers

Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.

Looking for the Podcast RSS feed or other links? Check here:
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The futility of Ad-Blockers
November 21, 2023
openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"

Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"
September 13, 2023
"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044

This episode is free for all to enjoy and share.

Be sure to subscribe here at Lunduke.Locals.com to get all shows & articles (including interviews with other amazing nerds).

"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044
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I won't be there this year... But kinda feel like I will be in spirit. 😉

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Awhile back I posted about finding a window manager that will have desktop zoom. I finally found one. It took making a couple scripts so it would work with the keyfindibg I want but it's been pretty cool.

Hyprland has a function set_cursor_zoom_factor that will set the magnification facor.
So get it to zooming with a keybinding had to make a script to query current zoom and add 1 to it.

Just figured I'd post this. Been wanting a tiler I can use magnification on, and finally did

Book & Movie Club, Discord Server Invite, Content page, and other odds & ends

Just a few quick updates and reminders for everyone (to make sure nobody misses out on anything around The Lunduke Journal Universe).

  • We've got a Movie Club and Book Club going over on NerdyEntertainment.Locals.com.  Here's the current schedule:
  • The Lunduke Journal has a priviate, invite-only Discord server.  Only for subscribers (keeps the trolls out).  You can find the invite link at the bottom of Lunduke.com.
  • There's some... uh... political stuff over at ConservativeNerds.Locals.com.  A few articles and shows this week.  Pretty darn good ones, too.  Nerdy.  But, you know, very political.
  • A quick reminder to check out the Content page (or Content Tab on the Locals iOS/Android App).  All videos and articles are there.  Searchable and sortable.  It exists on each Locals site and it's really handy to make sure you don't miss any of the big stuff.
  • There's now a small (permanent) discount when picking up a Lifetime Subscription with Bitcoin.  Since there's less total processing fees with Bitcoin, I'm just passing the difference on to you.  No biggy.  But if you use Bitcoin already, and you are looking at a Lifetime Sub... worth going that way to save a few bucks.  Of course picking a subscription up straight through Locals is pretty sweet too.  😉
  • Have any issues?  Have a Triple Pass but missing access somewhere?  Email bryan at lunduke.com.  I can usually sort out any issues pretty doggone quickly.  😎

That's it for now.  Just a few odds & ends to make sure nobody misses out on some of the fun stuff.

-Lunduke

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New data shows: Tabs more popular than Spaces. But Spaces users are happier.
Plus: Do Generation, Ethnicity, or Politics impact the choice of Spaces / Tabs?

"Tabs vs Spaces" is a debate as old as... well... Tabs and Spaces.  Lots of opinions.  Lots of arguments.

But which method of indentation do most computer nerds (and others within the IT industry) actually prefer?

And, while we're on the subject, are there any correlations between Tabs/Spaces usage... and a persons preferred Operating System, Web Browser, or Text Editor?  How about age, politics, and ethnicity?  Do those influence the Tabs or Spaces preference?  Are people who use Tabs happier than people who use Spaces?

I know some of that may sound crazy... but... do you know the answer?  Now that you've thought about it... don't you want to know?

The Lunduke Journal set out to answer these questions (and so many others) by surveying 7,200 IT professionals and computer nerds. (More information on the survey at the end of this article.)

And now, we can difinitively say, we have those answers.

Yes.  People prefer Tabs.

This is about as conclusive as it gets.  63.9% prefer Tabs over Spaces.

That's a decisive victory for Tabs.

Sure.  Most people perfer Tabs... but that still leaves a heck of a lot of questions unanswered.

Tabs / Spaces vs Text Editors

Do people who prefer Tabs... prefer Emacs or Vi?  Do "Spaces People" prefer editors like Notepad and Nano?

We presented those surveyed with four options: Emacs, Vi, Nano, & Notepad.  They had to chose one.  Here's how it broke down (according to those who preferred either Tabs or Spaces).

Spaces and Vi go hand in hand, apparently.

First of all: Vi / Vim were clearly the most popular.  But especially among those who prefer Spaces.

And people who like Tabs?  They tend to stay clear of Emacs... and gravitate towards Nano and Notepad.

Seriously.  The numbers don't lie.

Tabs / Spaces vs Operating Systems

But, wait.  Tabs and Notepad go hand-in-hand?  Say what?

Let's dive deeper... and take a look at how the Tabs / Spaces division plays out for each of the three major Operating Systems.  

This is ranked based on people who stated they use one of these Operating Systems more than any other.

Windows users are, overwhelmingly, the biggest fans of Tabs.  71.2%.

macOS users, on the other hand, still prefer Tabs... but to a far less extreme degree (57.4% vs 42.6%).

Linux users fell somewhere in the middle.

Just the same... users of every major Operating System prefer Tabs.  Decisively.

Tabs / Spaces vs Web Browsers

While we're looking at correlations between software usage and Tabs / Spaces... let's look at Web Browsers.

Pie charts are neat.

A few little take-aways.

  • Tabs aficionados like Google Chrome a bit more (15.5% vs 10.2%).
  • Ironically, Spaces users like Microsoft Edge a tad more.  Which is funny, considering how much Windows users tend to prefer Tabs.

Ok.  Let's move into the non-software correlations.

Tabs / Spaces vs Age

Which generation (X, Millenial, etc.) prefers Spaces vs Tabs?  Turns out, there's a distinct difference between the age groups.

Gen X likes them some Spaces!

Gen Z (1997 - 2012), is all Tabs.  72.2%.

But Gen X (1965 - 1980)?  They're far more split.  57.5% for Tabs, 42.5% for Spaces.

If there's one Generation keeping "Spaces" alive... it's Gen X.  Gen X might as well be renamed to "Gen Spaces".

Tabs / Spaces vs Politics

Now, how about political leanings?  I mean, seriously... it would be kinda interesting to know if politics had any correlation with a persons preference for using Spaces or Tabs.

Does it matter?  No.  But now that I've mentioned it... you kinda want to know too, don't ya?

Huh!

Well, look at that.

Turns out... those who identified politically as Centrists were the most likely to like Tabs!  By a surprisingly large margin.  Both Left and Right-leaning folks were actually not that far apart on the Tabs v Spaces issue... so... they've got that in common!

Tabs / Spaces vs Ethnicity

Ok.  Now let's look at a correlation between Tabs / Spaces... and ethnicity.

I know.  I know.  Just asking to get yelled at.  But, hey, there's no harm in looking at numbers, right?

What the what.

Your eyes do not deceive you.

People who identified as "White" were 62.3% in favor of Tabs.  But people who identified as anything other than "White" ("Black or African", "Asian", and other options pulled directly from the US census) declared an 81.6% preference for Tabs.

Why?  No clue.  But the numbers are right there.

Tabs / Spaces vs Programming Language

Ok, now let's tackle the topic that many of us -- myself included -- would probably assume has the biggest influence on wether or not a person prefers Tabs or Spaces: Programming languages.

We asked people which programming languages they were sufficiently familiar with to be able to code a simple application without much assistance.  Let's see how familiarity with any given programming language correlates to a choice of Tabs or Spaces.

Go programmers sure like their Spaces!

Some eyebrow raising results:

  • Those familiar with the most popular languages all tended towards Tabs more than Spaces (this includes those familiar with Python).
  • Go, Perl, BASH, & Rust were the four languages with the strongest tendency to vote for Spaces. 
  • With BASIC, C++, PHP, & Assembly tending most heavily towards Tabs.

But who are the happiest?

All of that is interesting.  Weird, funky little tidbits of information.

But what about a truly important question...

Which group, on average, is happier?  Those that use Tabs... or Spaces?

We asked people to rank their happines.  On scale of 1 to 10.  This was the result.

Not a huge difference.  But... still.
  • Spaces: 7.29 / 10
  • Tabs: 6.93 / 10

A difference of 0.36.  Or, to put another way, Spaces users are (on average) 5.2% happier than Tabs users.

Sure.  5.2% may not seem like a lot.  And there may be a lot of other possible causations -- with possible connections or relations to the Spaces / Tabs question -- which may be more likely to influence that percentage change in reported happines.

Just the same.  Fascinating to think that most people (63.9%) choose Tabs.

Yet... Spaces users are happier.  At least a little.


This report is derived from data obtained between February 22nd and March 10th of 2024, as part of the Great Tech Industry Demographics Survey.  During this survey, 7,200 respondents (a sample size many times larger than used by most polling agencies in national elections) answered 46 questions on a wide variety of technical, political, personal, and IT work-place related topics.

The survey was distributed by a wide range of writers, podcasters, YouTubers, & tech enthusiasts -- representing a variety of computing preferences (Windows vs Mac vs Linux, etc.) and political leanings.

The full, anonymous data will be released -- to allow for additional public analysis -- following a round of initial reporting by The Lunduke Journal.


If you are not already a subscriber to The Lunduke Journal, now's a great time.  At the very least, get yourself a free subscription so you don't miss out (most articles and shows here at The Lunduke Journal are free for all to enjoy).

Find more information (including RSS Podcast feeds, links to some of the big shows, how to become a whistleblower, and more) at the Lunduke Journal Link Central page.

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The Best Command-Line-Only Video Games, Part II
Because one list of ridiculously awesome, text-only games just isn't enough.

If you plunk down "Best terminal games" into any search engine... you're going to find a whole heck of a lot of the same results.  Repeated.  Over and over again.

Article after article listing the same text-based, simplified versions of Space Invaders, Tetris, and Sudoku.

Which is fine.  We need fun little versions of those games in our Linux (or macOS, or Windows) shell.

But... what if you're looking for something... more?  Deeper games.  More visually impressive games.  But still entirely in your text-mode shell?

It was for this very reason that I published -- some time back -- a list of the "Best Command-Line-Only Games".  And, while that first list is -- indeed -- truly awesome... we have only scratched the surface of amazing terminal games.

So buckle up, Buttercup.  Because I've got some more awesome text-mode games for you.  Behold!  Part 2!

Gorched

Scorched Earth (aka "The Mother of All Games") was a mainstay of DOS gaming in the early 1990s. 

Take turns launching a variety of munitions (with adjusted angles and power) at your friends.  A simple, but addictive formula -- one which the "Worms" series of games has used for years.

And "Gorched" recreates the core of that game... entirely in ANSI / ASCII art.  All right in your terminal.

The Mother of All ASCII Games

Awesome, right?  The darn thing even has clouds floating through the sky.  Not too shabby for a Shell-only game.

DOOM-ASCII

What if you could play DOOM... entirely in a terminal?

Not a 2D recreation... the actual game.  3D.  But... you know... in ASCII art instead of pixels?

Yeah.  It's real.

I'm not kidding here.  It's DOOM.  And it's playable.

How rad is that?!  

Curse of War

Here's a slightly unconventional Real-Time Strategy game: Curse of War.

The overall mechanics are pretty simple and approachable: move your armies, build your infrastructure, get more resources.  But you don't build and maneuver a bunch of specific units.  It's much more... high level.

Pokete - Grey Edition

This is, essentially, a Pokemon like game.  For Linux.  In ASCII art.

Which... awesome.

Simple.  Recognizable.  Yeah, it's Pokemon.  Kinda.

Battles.  Exploration.  It's all here.  And, while there are some rough edges, the overall game is not too darn shabby!

Wolfentext3D 

Take the overall look of Wolfenstein 3D.  Implement it entirely in a 3D ASCII engine.

It's not really much like the original game which inspired it.  It's more of a simple maze game.  But it looks like Wolfenstein 3D in the terminal.  Which is nifty.

Impressive, right?  And it runs on Windows, Mac, & Linux (though it does require Ruby).

GameShell

This one is a little... different.

It's a shell game... built entirely to teach people who to use UNIX style shell commands.

The player goes on a series of missions in a fantasy world... and the only way to accomplish your goals... is to learn to use commands like "ls" and "pwd".

Nifty, right?

Brogue: Community Edition

You can't go wrong with a good Rogue-like!  Hack!  Slash!  ASCII!

And Brogue is a truly excellent one.

Randomly generated, 26-level dungeon.  Both complex and visually pleasing.  While there are oh-so-many Rogue-like games in this world, Brogue is worth at least a quick look.

That brings us to the end of this list.  If you haven't checked out the previous list, I highly recommend it.  There are a great many, truly fantastic text-mode games in this world... and it would be a shame to miss out on any of them.

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