Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "DJ Ware" channel.

I'd prefer a switch. For instance, less can interpret escape sequences correctly if you use -r or -R, and a lot of times when you pipe to it all the color information gets squelched, and ls can be forced to always output color, as can other standard commands.
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Since the time I started with Linux the recommendation has always been to setup a separate partition, and being rather old school I've always complied. I've only got 12gb of RAM, though I wanted a more rounded number, so I setup a 32gb swap partition. I think the most I ever saw it get used was 6gb, but that was fairly heavy use with about 20 browser windows, each with about 10 tabs apiece and a media player in the background with some music going, and obviously about 20 terminal windows across 5 desktops, plus an emulator. Usual day to day usage is maybe 5 browser windows at 20 to 30 tabs total and 8 terminals, and even then it's usually not more than 2gb of swap used. If that constitutes a profile in which I've severely over-allocated my swap space, I'd still do it just the same. I've got the disk space and I've never felt it get sluggish. Even on the old computer, when I had 256mb of RAM and a 1gb swap partition, Slackware still felt snappy.
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I've said it before and I'll probably say it again, but only psychopaths like light mode. Dark mode all the way.
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I've never had a problem with the old commands. I use df to summarize my disks and part of that includes piping to awk to select the ones I want to see. It was slightly too complex for an alias, so I wrote a bash function and added it to my ~/.bash_aliases file where I've got a lot of shorthand variants for doing things. I list my files in chronological order, so I've got a function I named lrt to do the obvious. Since I force ls to use decorators I can parse on that to get the list of directories. Which really only works because I use a regular naming scheme for my files and folders. If something I download has a space, I use rename 'y/ /_/'. However, not everyone is even that capable, and for such people as don't want to learn the old ways and bend them to their will, all of these Rust-y versions give them the fancy colored output and ease of use providing features that they'd have to spend at least 20 minutes reimplementing. So for such people it makes sense to have easy mode apps that they don't have to configure. I'd still rather configure, though.
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@EpKjelltzer That assumes I like the defaults or that they're drop in replacements. They often aren't. Especially considering how often I find that the Rust versions are missing features, such as ripgrep being unable to perform proper PCRE searches. Several people keep telling me it's unimportant while it attempts to provide a subset of functionality I already had with standard grep. Doesn't really help matters when the Rustaceans are so toxic either.
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So that's where Microsoft learned it from. Personally, I'd avoid anything "sponsored" by a company like IBM, Microsoft or any other such evil corporation, including but not limited to Amazon, especially if they offer it for free while just about everything else they have is enterprise. I know it's hard to pass this stuff up for some people, but I really wish more would try because it just corrupts everything. And lest anyone be confused, I'm not saying everything should be free, I'm saying that when it comes to corporations handing out freebies, that none of it should be free. It's how they monopolize areas of the market by luring people in with free things, then locking them in by making it difficult if not impossible to switch.
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Can you do that with Wayland? If not I'll add that to my list, because I keep finding reasons not to use it.
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I'm going to have to disagree that Linux wouldn't be as big a thing as it is now if not for GNU. I think the opposite is true and that if it weren't for GNU and the GPL, and of course people's aversion to the GPL, that the whole of the industry and Linux itself would have been better off. I think Linux would've become a much bigger deal, albeit with a lot more paid options, and more people would use it worldwide. It's not as if open source didn't exist before GNU, because it most certainly did, and it's not like they made it more popular, because the GPL. The only real credit that GNU deserves is in holding Linux back. Look at Android, they hated the GPL so much that they had to rewrite a lot of code which they shouldn't have needed to do, just to avoid it, and they're working on replacing Linux as their kernel instead of contributing back to it, despite the fact that the GPL isn't a factor there. What GNU has done is infect a lot of people with a mind virus and squelched not just Linux, but the software industry at large. Of course I know I'm in the minority on this thought.
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I just go with the defaults, but if they change in the future I may have to really evaluate which I use. However, you've perfectly illustrated another example of why I won't use the SI names for computer storage sizes. It sounded like you were saying tittybytes and that's just so very wrong. I know, people complain that the SI prefixes shouldn't be used for computers because they should have a set meaning, but computers are by their very nature binary devices and have been since they've been digital. So for what it's worth, I don't think we should apply the 1K increment logic to SI prefixes when talking about computers and just use 1024 increments. I will continue for the rest of my life to say kilobyte and mean 1024 bytes and megabyte and mean 1048576 bytes and so on.
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@MR-vj8dn Yeah, it's unfortunate that they reject true information because they call it original research, yet keep information up which is patently false because of circular referencing, whereby a journalist will quote something that was randomly added without a citation and then the article will update citations using the article as a primary source.
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@MR-vj8dn When you reply, just quickly hit ctrl+a then ctrl+x then ctrl+v, then write your response. I figure this latest anti-feature is because the user ID's are automatically linkified to their profile page and then it's subsequently deleted by a URL filter. I could be wrong, but it sounds like the kind of stupid mistake someone working for YouTube would make. The fact that it doesn't happen every time is just an indication of how heavy the filters are for a given channel and what your "social credit score" with YT is.
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