Re: The First Distro To Offer XLibre

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 07:59:31 +0530, Not Necessary wrote:

Plaintext is just human-readable information codified into a binary
format for the hardware to parse / store / transmit.

But you said “computers can’t understand plaintext, they understand
binaries”. But if they’re the same thing, then why would computers
understand one but not the other?

Software is explicitly binary where it connects logical pathways etched
in hardware for electric current to flow in a certain way.

So do “microcode” and “firmware”. Are they part of the “software” or the
“hardware”?

Also GUI is just one of the many paradigms of computing interfaces.

It’s the one layer of abstract machine that is not designed for additional
layers to be built on top.