Do you have any idea just how much code is in Windows?
I did a quick search and estimates are in the 50-60 million lines range.
No way in hell are they going to rewrite all that in a few years. Even if they actually wanted to, which they don't because it would be a truly enormous expense (even for Microsoft).
Not to even mention that huge software projects have a well deserved reputation for failing, and the scope of such a rewrite would probably dwarf any previous rewrite of anything, ever, and by a very large margin.
"Rewrite all of Windows in Rust" simply does not even begin to pass the sniff test.
Good news, because part of the original post was that engineers should soon be able to handle a million lines of code a month. So 60 engineers to birth an OS in a month.
… Our strategy is to combine AI *and* Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code,” Galen Hunt, who is a top-level Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a now-edited LinkedIn post.…
Maybe he did not say Windows, but it is not a leap to imagine it falls under the umbrella of “largest codebases”
I use NextDNS since 2021, after a frustrating experience with Pi-Hole in a Raspberry Pi 3b (system broke by itself every other month, I think because faulty SD cards).
NextDNS is so good, and their free tier so generous, that sometimes I feel bad for not having to pay for it. Can’t recommend enough.
At this point, it's easier to start with a privacy-focused, AI-free fork, like LibreWolf, and turn some stuff on to stop it breaking sites that have privacy-hostile workings, like disabling that LibreWolf exclusive fingerprinting protection that many sites don't play nice with.
I wish they rely more on OS features, like the built-in, system-wide spell check. I know it's a bigger task for them, since Firefox runs on multiple OSes, but maybe it's worth it. It dreads me how “un-macOS” Firefox feels, and I guess this feeling extends to Windows, Linux and elsewhere.
In Windows-land everything is so inconsistent that it doesn’t really stand out like it does on MacOS.
97% of Windows users wouldn’t notice if it followed OS conventions and the remaining 3% would complain that it was following the current conventions instead of copying Word 2003 :)
Is it really that big of a task? More so than maintaining custom spellcheck dictionaries in every supported language? Even if they only implemented OS spellcheck compatibility on MacOS and Windows and just used the existing custom spellcheck on other OSes, that'd still be a huge improvement and they'd only have to do the work for two OSes rather than every OS that Firefox supports.
KDE is in a better shape than anything on its past. Whatever you feel about Nate, he cares — and that's a huge, almost unique quality today. Also, the nagging to donate doesn't bother at all — and has had a positive impact in increasing donations do KDE project.
>[…] allows you to use it completely on your own terms.
It doesn't. You use Facebook and Instagram on Meta's terms. I can't use them without viewing reels, for example, neither defaulting them to a chronological timeline.
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