Every time I come back to it I have at least one driver problem. I've used Linux on the desktop, on and off, for over 20 years - in fact, since the year 1999 as you mentioned. If you want normal people to use Linux you should never, ever, ever ask them to even use a terminal, much less a compiler.

I can't imagine trying to walk my parents through compiling a kernel driver to get their hardware working, and that's why I've never tried to get them to use Linux. No other operating system would make me compile code to fulfill such a rudimentary and basic expectation. It's rational for me to want my sound card to work without having to compile code. They are already way outside of rational territory and deep into religious territory. > These are the same people who say they don't want to run Linux because they don't want to compile their sound card drivers. At this stage of my life I treat my memory as a rough guide to past events, not as a record of what happened, so I could be wrong about the dates towards the end of the 90s. I don't believe an apostrophe goes between the 't' and the 's'. It might be that there is just not enough contributors to Darling to proceed at the pace that Wine did. If memory serves me correctly, I'm quite sure that I played one or two Directx games on Linux using Wine in Dec-1998 - that's 5 years of development.įair enough, most of the games/apps did not run (Dune 2k was listed as 'working' so I ran out and bought a copy only to find that it got no further than the game menu screen) but it ran more Windowed programs and full-screen games back then than Darling does now, so I don't think that I am performing an unfair comparison in that regard. So? Darling is 9 years into its development and hasn't really reached the maturity that Wine had after 7 years of development. You're talking about a period 7 years into it's development. Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc. The other features I like about iTerm2 are pretty standard in at least a dozen or so other terminal emulators (tabs, split windows, etc.). Any terminal software that doesn't have a feature like this is a no-go for me (and so far iTerm2 is the only one I have found that has this feature, I have looked high and low for something similar native in Linux but have only come up with bupkis). Of course we have seperate passwords for each environment, so having this feature is pretty much a must for me now. Once you are on a server they maybe several passwords and or accounts you need to login to or accesses (like postgres, mongodb, redis, etc.). I manage a ton of servers, and yeah we use SSO to ssh into them, but that is just ssh access. This an absolute life changing feature for me. Pop-up box comes up, here you can have as many credentials as you need, it saves them, just double click one and it will enter it in your terminal window.

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