Re: A quick search on _noticeable_ Linux improvements since 2014

On 2025-03-03, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 06:59:04 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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For what I do, Linux was good in 2014. I'm sure there's improvements but
nothing that really caught my attention in the last 10 years.

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Most of my work related stuff was C code going back 20 or more years with
Motif for the GUIs. Vim hasn't changed that much either so in that context
the only glitch was when gcc got snotty about multiply defined variables.
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A few third part libraries required a little tweaking. OpenSSL had some
breaking changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 (there was no 2.x).
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The Windows side was trickier. We had a map program that was developed
with Visual C++ 6.0 that I could never successfully move to a newer
environment. Too many MFC changes plus third party dependencies like
LizardTech jpeg rendering libraries. At this point I'll never touch it
again but I do have a old machine offline with VS 6.0.
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Not specific to Linux but many of the applications I use now weren't
around in 2014. Some may not run on a 2014 OS due to Qt or gtk changes.

I'm sure there have been changes in the background (where developers live)
but for us braindead "normal" Linux users, not a lot has changed in how we
use Linux in the last ten years.

There is one program, Trelby, that's based on Python that had issues when
Python moved to 3. Someone put out a version fairly quickly that run under
Python 3. And recently that fix needed a fix. But, since I'm usually on the
"trailing edge," by the time I get to the newer Linux where Trelby doesn't
work, a fix has already been implemented.

I can't think any other application that quit working on me. But I'm
guessing there have been a couple and I just don't remember them now.

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