I don't want windows or linux, I want a OS where I don't notice that it's there. When I have to think about my OS, then the OS has a flaw. And currently nor Windows or Linux can deliver that anymore. Windows 7 after some customizations and Windows XP had this, but M$ destroyed it. Linux never had this and I don't expect that this will come in the future.

> I want a OS where I don't notice that it's there.

I guess you want a Mac. That's fine.

I value freedom and things not mysteriously breaking and functionality not disappearing, and am quite happy investing a the time and knowledge upfront, so I use Linux.

And then there are people who want to have a system which works out of the box initially and who don't want to learn anything and don't mind it breaking later, and they choose Windows.

To each their own.

Windows has only one major advantage over Linux, it comes preinstalled with all required hardware support.

Both installing Windows and installing Linux can be difficult for most people. I have done both professionally and when installing Windows I have encountered frequently more serious problems, which required much more time to solve than the problems encountered when installing Linux.

For those who have someone else to install and configure Linux, it is at least as easy to use as Windows.

My parents, more than 80-years old, have used for many years Linux without any problems and they have no idea what Linux is, they just know the applications that they are using for viewing and editing documents, e-mail, Internet browsing, music or movies listening or watching, TV watching or recording (with TV tuner) and so on.

With your support.

Would have they bought such a configuration on a random computer store?

If it came pre-installed I don't see what the difference would be. Many people don't know how to do anything other than launch certain applications on Windows either.

Except that it is a reality that is yet to happen in most countries.

Most people also don't buy laptops from some online store that only HN readers know about.

First of all that's only Ubuntu, but also at this stage uutils is way more compatible with the GNU tools than Apple's tools are.

No general user that is now using Windows would come in contact with the edge cases were the rewrites differ from the standard utilities.

I stopped to read because I had the feel that the writer has no plan about what he was writing. It's completely bullshit. Software regenerating, changing Requirements in a product thats delivered and comes without source. Completely bullshit. When I now read here that it's AI, I'm happy to see that AI is still not capable of writing senseful texts.

Bullshit! You project isn't finished as long as there are obvious major bugs that you can't fix because you don't unterstand the code.

Why does understanding computer science principles and software architecture and instructing a person or an ai on how to fix them require typing every line yourself?

I'm security engineer too and when it really will come so far that I only review LLM code I refuse to do it for fewer than my doubled hourly rate.

There is fewer then 2% of code a copy of chardet. When the developer of chardet had done it without AI, whats then? He is trained on the same code too.

Please don't. I don't trust AI code when we talk about my filesystem and data.

I meant it as a joke, given that oracle is famously litigious. It would solve the legal questions

In Germany we call this 'Beißreflex'. It's all good, when someone reimplements something in Rust, no one asks for the license, but as soon someone uses AI to reimplement something, the search for something to complain about begins.

Can't say anything about the US, but in Germany when more than one cities have the same zip code it's just not important because there is only one sorting center for all cities with the same zip and they just sort per street address.

He just doesn't understood that every country has his own zip codes. He just comes from the land of the free invention of units of measurement ;)

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