Well, for most real-world programming languages, you do have to teach syntax. You do not have to use the word “syntax”, you can call it something else.

Obviously there are things like Scratch that are intended for your exact use case.

I don’t think you need to use the word “syntax” at all when teaching anyone basic coding. There are many ways to paraphrase the concept. It is kind of an odd question, why that specific word?

It’s one of the best FOSS games I know. That is not a very high bar, admittedly; I suggest trying I out.

I no longer use IRC; when I did, I used KVIrc near the end, which seems to still be getting releases.

normally yes, you should use a better app if it doesn’t (or maybe your instance disabled downvotes)

You can just ssh to the machine you want to run things on I think?

MS already doesn’t have a monopoly in any meaningful sense anymore.

• https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-202507 - in early 2009, almost 95% of web usage was from Windows, by now it is at around 28%, no longer even the most popular OS, which is now Android around 42%
• https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200901-202507 - even looking only at the desktop and ignoring the shift to mobile devices, Windows fell from ~95% to ~72% during the same time period, mostly losing to macOS but more recently also Linux

Windows isn’t the main way Microsoft makes money anymore anyway…

They come from completely different heritages.

GNU/Linux is a reimplementation of Unix, an operating system that was originally designed mainly for universities, but also mainframes.

Windows is descended from DOS, an operating system intended for home computers.

Nowadays Windows is the only widely used non-Unix-like OS; GNU/Linux, Android, macOS and iOS are all Unix-like.

If Windows became FOSS, I at least would likely switch to it. It’s really the FOSS philosophy more than anything else that makes me want to use GNU/Linux.

Absolute trash article.

like most things on techrights.org; every time I read almost anything on that website, I agree with a lot of the substance and then wonder why it has to make that substance look so bad by adding inaccuracies and/or conspiracy theories into it.

I use Krusader on Linux which I don’t think has icon view.

When I have to use something else (eg Windows Explorer at work), obviously I prefer detailed list view. I like seeing things like the last modified date.

Debian (testing) is most suitable for me. If there were a universally best distro, all the others would cease to exist…

It isn’t made by a for-profit company and thus doesn’t have “features” I don’t want.

It pays attention to software freedom, though it isn’t so restrictive about it that it doesn’t work with my hardware.

It was very easy to install only the things I wanted and needed.

not heard of it before, do you want to explain what it is or does everyone who is like me have to separately do a web search for it?

Installed, it probably is if it works in Brave… it might not be set up right in LibreWolf though.

On a German QWERTZ keyboard too, μ is the only Greek letter you can easily type (altgr+m) and I’m pretty sure this is because of micro units.

If you want to enforce that, you need to fork it and put a copyleft license on it. This is very rarely done because it’s more work to maintain software than to write it…

They can change future versions to that, not already released ones.

https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

A gnome obviously

Do we have “circlejerk” or “shitposting” communities here on Lemmy already?

These settings don’t do what you want?

TIL that you can declare return types this way in C++.