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  • A program being written in rust itself doesn’t guarantee anything, but it tells you what you’ll probably find:

    • Utf-8 support
    • No shenanigans with installations, dynamic libraries and such. Just download and execute.
    • Multi-platform support
    • Low resource usage.
    • semver.
    • Compile with just 1 command if you want to.
    • MIT/apache2 license.
    • No memory leaks.
    • If it crashes, at least it will probably log out something more helpful than “SEGFAULT”.

    Many of those are highly positive to the end consumer.


  • I’m one of those that use PowerShell on linux.

    You can use tmux, vim, sed, awk or whatever binary you want from PowerShell. Those are binaries, not shell commands.

    You can use pipes, redirects, stdin and stdout in PowerShell too.

    I personally don’t regularly use any object oriented features. But whenever I search how to do something that I don’t know what to do, a clear object-oriented result is much easier to understand than a random string of characters for awk and sed.













  • Hardware doesn’t need to be too weird. Back when I bought my laptop, it was a kinda recent model so most of its features didn’t work in Ubuntu (I say Ubuntu because it’s the distro that worked best. Tried many others and they had even worse support). After a year or so it worked mostly, except some things.

    To this day, 4 years later, the display brightness control still doesn’t work correctly.

    I don’t think hiding the problems do any good. The Linux desktop/laptop experience is not good, specially for non-programmers. It’s usable, but not good.