Which half?

> There will be a few well off people with capital.

How much capital does one need to be in that group? Is that the same world wide, or location-dependent?

> I want a OS where I don't notice that it's there.

I guess you want a Mac. That's fine.

I value freedom and things not mysteriously breaking and functionality not disappearing, and am quite happy investing a the time and knowledge upfront, so I use Linux.

And then there are people who want to have a system which works out of the box initially and who don't want to learn anything and don't mind it breaking later, and they choose Windows.

To each their own.

> GHA can’t even be called Swiss cheese anymore, it’s so much worse than that.

That's a high bar though. Few things are better than Swiss cheese.

Salers (if you can find it)

> What kind of problems do 1 person, 10 person, 100 person, 1k (etc) teams really run into with managing merge conflicts?

> What do teams of 1, 10, 100, 1k, etc care the most about?

Oh god no! That would be about the worst way to do it.

Just make it conceptually sound.

Also, we need personas! Sally the developer, Mark the UX designer, Taylor the manager. Also, we need to build a community, with the help of evangelists!

Probably, but just introducing CRDTs also feels like the wrong way to approach the problem! :)

I wrote a comment on this thread. After reading yours I upvoted it and deleted mine: you clearly gave it more thought than I did and expressed my sentiment a lot clearer.

Thanks for the kind words :-)

Yes it would break things. Also it's impossible to delete things from the internet, so a bit cute to attempt to do it...

The comment text could be replaced with (deleted), and the poster name could be as well.

And while other sites mirroring HN might keep the original, that’s a separate issue.

I have the opposite feelings: I'm rooting for them to continue and utterly destroy Windows for everyone.

Windows is 'GUI native', yet manages to be utterly incomprehensible. I'm a technical person and family and friends know it. Whenever someone tells me "you understand computers" and wants me to help them with their Windows, having used Linux for the past 20 years, I mostly cannot get the task done. This has become better with LLMs, but Windows gets zero credit for that.

What is the benefit of 'GUI native' if things are broken and people cannot fix them?

That's very uncharitable reading.

What's charitable one?

They replied to you already. I wish you had more empathy.

I don't buy it

Interesting. Well, I can only tell you that I'm not lying.

I can totally picture and feel how she would feel. I understand the jubilation of falling in love, and I understand the pain of losing loved ones - especially when it's sudden, unexpected, and tragic.

I've felt all of those things before in my own life. We all do, sooner or later.

But pain is also what imbues things with meaning. All of the greatest human stories are about suffering and how we as humans respond to it. That's why it puts a pep in my step - because it's meaningful, provocative, evocative, and inspiritational.

Life would be dull without loss.

It's a radical perspective maybe, and maybe even an irrational one, but hey - it works for me!

As in you think they're lying? Or confused? Or something else entirely?

I don't know. I don't get how one can have empathy, feel down because of someone else's misery and enjoy it. Or not it itself, but something having it as a part.