Eager but tentative?

Usually tentative means they are not so eager.

What’s with that disaster of colorized text?

17-20 C

If they sound different they’re not lossless. (Or they’re different masters)

I’m with you on the “FOSS office alternatives are shit”, but unfortunately MS office is also shit. Google is the closest I have found to a good office suite but even that is becoming a bit chaotic and awkward. LyX is a promising word processor but also pretty awkward to use in its own way. I’ve got nothing, there.

As far as gaming, this sound less kind than intended but you deserve any shit you get for saying Linux gaming is bad these days. Apart from a few AAA games with anti-cheat where the devs just don’t want to, basically every game just works without any extra effort. Even obscure indie games. I can’t think of the last game I wanted to play that didn’t run on Linux, and often it is better under proton than Windows or native.

Because it looks awesome, and they can.

Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do.

This is clearly false. There was a definite point at which it was decided to call Burma Myanmar, or at a more local level Peking to Beijing.

I love filter views, no real complaints there except that other people can’t manage to figure out the difference between filtering the whole sheet and setting up a filter view.

Tables seem kind of pointless but better than a separate database app I guess?

Not sure about “little pills”, do you mean the drop downs? That’s in validation, and it’s a little odd but better both in interface and function than Excel. There’s really only one version and two ways to do it: “data validation” and “insert drop-down” (the latter is just a shortcut to the former, but with relevant options selected). Checkboxes are the same (both live in the insert menu).

I’ve never known the “paste style” menu, I mostly use keyboard shortcuts when pasting. I might be misunderstanding what you’re describing there.

Some of it is just familiarity but I found Google sheets to be a breath of fresh air and still find Excel just painful.

Although Google has really gotten pretty cluttered lately as they add features and slap them in whatever menu they pick at random.

Similar but with an interface that refuses to do anything new for 20 years.

Yeah but those extra steps are important ones.

As long as you don’t rely on the UI design matching, it is fine.

It’s just some mostly-unwritten rule of English grammar. If you do it wrong it sounds wrong but most English speakers don’t think about it.

Edit: reference.

Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson … how can you go wrong!?

Were they bad, though?

I guess I was thinking of “special characters” like Ł, ñ, ă and such.

ruby shoes that are red

You mostly nailed it but this one would be “red ruby shoes”

determiner, quantity, opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, and purpose

Special characters suck in on-screen keyboards

Not as much as they do on physical keyboards with their “hold alt-gr and hope” approach.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/R_Stevie_Moore_with_Irwin_Chusid/Swingin_Singles/csr044_swingin-singles_side-b_08_r-stevie-moore-with-irwin-chusid_so-be-it-soviet_the-undertow

I dunno that I’d consider Brave to be “the right thing” but more variety/competition is best!