Kate is an OS app. When you install your distro, it’s there.

I don’t think any of that matters, tbh.

Well then you’d be wrong about that. Sorry.

You’re sounding like one of those people that says “ummm ackshully it’s GNU + Linux, not Linux”

Yes, you can have a desktop without a desktop environment. Well done. Nobody does that in the desktop space. Kate is an OS program.

If you install a distro with KDE, you will have Kate. It’s an OS program.

Case in point, you can install Kate, and Dolphin, on FreeBSD. And on Windows.

Pahahaha, that’s not what defines whether a program is an OS one or not. You can run paint on Linux if you wanted to. Based on your definition, Paint therefore isn’t part of the Windows app suite.

Let’s get back on topic - do you think a normal user will hear “Kate” and think “ah, that must be the text editor!”, do you think they’ll hear “Dolphin” and think “ah, that must be a file manager of some kind!”?

Presumably either because they’ve not heard of the Fediverse, because almost nobody has, and/or because they want people to actually see what they post.

It literally is. It’s part of the KDE Plasma desktop. It comes preinstalled.

The Vim, nano command line text editors also being there doesn’t mean Kate isn’t an OS app.

Would you say the Dolphin file explorer isn’t an OS/system app on the basis that you can use commands like cd, mv, cp, pwd in terminal? Because I certainly wouldn’t.

Indeed. That’s what I do on my Plasma system, it’s a good option.

But a new user or someone who isn’t technical won’t see that, they don’t go digging through settings in each app, they just use the defaults.

I guess a solid compromise would be to enable this by default, and anybody who doesn’t like that short descriptor can disable it.

But IMO nothing will beat the no-nonsense straightforwardness of calling OS apps immediately intuitive names. This is something I believe Gnome gets right. Go onto their GitHub and their file manager is called Nautilus, but on your system it will default to being called “Files”, because they know everyone will understand what “Files” is but a lot of people would ask “Wtf is Nautilus??”, same goes for other apps, e.g. “Loupe” appearing as “Image Viewer”.

Programs that we think of as being part of the OS, such as the included text editor, is a very different thing to something like Steam, imo.

Steam isn’t preinstalled on your PC, it’s not a core part of your desktop OS. You download Steam yourself, so you’d only do it once you already know what it is.

Third party apps kinda need unique names and branding like that to distinguish themselves.

A newbie won’t know what “Kate” or “Okular” do. They might know what “Dolphin” does because it has a folder as the app icon (although users of screen readers won’t see that). They will probably know what “Notepad” or “Text Editor” does, though.

I like Kate as a program but man KDE need to change how some of their app names appear in Plasma.

A new user looking through their start menu and seeing “Kate” will have no idea it’s a text editor/notepad. The same is true for multiple other programs.

Okular, Dolphin, Cantata… ask someone who’s never tried Plasma before what those programs do and I’d wager you’d get an incorrect answer for each one.

Genuinely very useful, however I feel that can be achieved without a login and paid AI subscription.

Yeah, so they have some use

There are definitely things the Spotify Car Thing could’ve done.

It’s a potato, sure, but there are still uses. Displaying some PC information, weather information, using it as a macro-pad (someone actually did that one)… or doing the thing it was designed to do: show some album art and the song you’re playing, and giving play/pause, skip buttons.

Shit, even a desk clock would be better than nothing.

E: ah, I see you said unlike, not like. Never mind.

10 series there was backlash over them advertising an MSRP and getting reviewers to assess the cards at that value, but having “founders pricing”, where the initial run of cards (that IIRC were Nvidia reference cards only) were far more than the MSRP.

20 series they ramped up prices despite small performance gains, saying that it’s due to ray tracing, and that when new ray tracing games came out the difference would be incredible. Ray traced games didn’t actually come out until long after, and the RT performance was straight up unplayable on any card. But enough time had went past that people couldn’t return the cards by the time that was known.

30 series there was the supply issues, 3090s and 3080s melting in a few games (most prominently in New Dawn), outrageously fake MSRPs (Nvidia was actually selling the GPUs to partners for more than the MSRP!), and really bad levels of VRAM that caused issues (8GB on the 3070/3070 Ti)

Brave is just Chrome with added crypto and homophobia

No, it’s still 100% owned and 100% controlled by Google.

The Linux Foundation is just making it easier for people outside of Google to submit work to it.

Cynically, you could say that Google is just trying to get free contributions while retaining all the control. Optimistically you could say this is the first step in Google giving up control of Chromium in the far future, although currently they’ve given zero verbal or written indicators that they plan to do that.

I’m frequently told that Linux is hard and you need to be a tech guru to use it, yet every week I see 1-2 articles of issues in windows you need to do some bullshit to fix, and in my own use of it I’ve ran into issues (especially after doing an update) that I just don’t run into on Linux or MacOS.