Cool story bro. Wasn't trying to be cool and edgy by liking something as innocuous as a DE. Unlike insulting someone over their choice of DE or WM.

I get that gnome is quite inflexible in multi monitor mode but doesn't bother me since second my screen is usually static and I just swap around the main workspace. Tiling extension just helps me organize them. The point was the market on tiling wm seems pretty saturated why even deal with a problematic one.

I love pkgsrc. Thought flatpak, snaps, and appimages solved fragmentation, well pkgsrc solved OS fragmentation across ALL UNIX-LIKE SYSTEMS. I want netBSD to keep working on their rumpkernels as well, so we run their drivers ON ANY OS.

(I wanted to put emphasis to show how amazing NetBSD is)

I'll preface this by saying I'm not trying to sound like a tech bro. I'm really trying to give a level and measured response.

Over the past year, AI coding has gotten very good. It can catch weird mistakes that are not obvious. But it can also just totally miss obvious things and get caught up in shit that doesn't matter. The best way to describe it is like an extremely eager and very smart junior developer. They get easily distracted. They get easily caught up in edge cases that don't matter. That can easily miss extremely critical things.

The biggest thing is that it's fast.

We'll see how cheap it is long term when companies need to be profitable and run out of investors to convince.

Yeah, I started with KDE 2.2.2, and outside of the KDE 4 era, I always find myself coming back to it. I used GNOME 2 during that time, so I understand the appeal of MATE and Cinnamon.

I tend to prefer traditional desktops with overlapping windows. I've tried various tiling wms and hated all of them. I don't want my screen covered in terminals or to have to learn keyboard shortcuts just to do basic tasks, and I often feel like I'm the only longtime Linux user who feels this way.

I just don't want to have to memorize keyboard shortcuts or have my screen covered in terminals just to do basic tasks. I like the convenience of a desktop environment, but I don't want the BS that comes with Windows.

Re: bad with large code -- that's been something I've been noticing as well. A project I've been working on for work has gotten larger now and it seems more often that it makes goofy mistakes. Like removing something somewhere but leaving something related somewhere else. My best guess is that it's all context window stuff. As humans, we can learn a lot and keep it all in our heads. But an AI model, if it's not something from its training set and it's not in its context window, then it just straight up does not know it exists. I'm guessing because context windows have gotten bigger that ai coding has gotten more impressive. But we'll see if they're able to keep scaling that. I imagine at some point it's gonna hit a soft wall (or at least a price wall lol).

Cheer up mate might never happen😂

It was a light hearted take on how seriously people take their choices. Gnome not cool gnome never cool, gnome can do most of what a lot of people want though.

I really like pkgsrc too, but pacman (+ AUR) has so much software! It's pretty tough choice, honestly.

It is a pain to configure all of this. It have nothing to do with Arch.

What exact issues have you found in the LLM-generated parts of the Linux source code?

The issue to me is that the LLMs used to generate said parts are trained on code from all of the internet without regard for licenses or legal restrictions—in short: it is stolen code.

I am of the opinion that this goes directly against copyleft ideals, like those of the GPL etc., by allowing corporations to take software under "restrictive" licenses* and exfiltrate them as proprietary, copyright software.

* i.e. ones that would require them to actually contribute to FLOSS instead of leaching off of it