GNU/Linux on the Desktop Versus Proprietary Forms
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Why I use a Mac computer, but an Android phone
Yes, you could use a flavour of Linux on cheaper hardware, but then you trade the great Mac graphical interface with the ones available to Linux.
You can fight me in the comments, but deep down you know I’m right.
MacOS comes with Bash, and many of the tools those familiar with Linux would expect to have by default in their favourite distribution, including basics like “whois”, which aren’t installed in Windows by default.
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Everything you knew about Chromebooks is wrong
The original assumed vision of the Chromebook platform was a laptop and operating system capable of running only the Chrome web browser. You could do anything you wanted, as long as you wanted to stay on the web at all times.
Today, the best new Chromebooks can runs apps from three additional operating systems.
Not only do Chromebooks run apps, but they run more apps without dual- or multi-booting than any other computing platform. Chromebooks can run apps from Android, Linux and Windows concurrently in the same session.
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Games, Tests and GitLab CI
We are getting midterm of the GNOME 3.30 development cycle and many things already happened in the Games world. I will spare the user facing news for later as today I want to tell you about development features we desperatly needed as maintainers: tests and continuous integration.
TL;DR: GLib, Meson, Flatpak and GitLab CI make writing and running tests super easy!
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