I have been vocal against use of feature flags at my workplace, partly because of the risk of accidentally putting a feature live in a production or other client-facing environment.
Just this morning I got to ask "Why is this feature flag enabled in prod" to the stunned faces of people who had insisted that would never happen.
Maybe the same thing played out at Microsoft here.
My favorite conspiracy theory is that they do plan to add ads in the file explorer but only in 2-3 years. They leak it now so they get some flak but they just say "oh no we won't actually do it". Then when they actually roll it out people don't get as angry as the first time and they just leave it.
Like when they said multiple times "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows as it will be a rolling release" and then pretended after they never said that in order to satisfy some product manager's desire to release a new version so they could add it to their resume.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 65.6 ms ] threadWhere I work we write a lot of experimental features, behind feature flags which never end up being made available to customers.
Could of course be that they are just making it up. If this was an actual mistake it sounds like their QA is messed up.
Just this morning I got to ask "Why is this feature flag enabled in prod" to the stunned faces of people who had insisted that would never happen.
Maybe the same thing played out at Microsoft here.
"Theirs goes to 11."
https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
Buy a computer with preinstalled Linux. Everything is fine on my Librem 15. Suspend works 100% of the time.
> impossible number of combinations to support
Support Ubuntu/Debian. It will be enough. Or Flatpak.
> need to use terminal
This is an obsolete information from the 90s.
> This is an obsolete information from the 90s.
Except it's not in too many cases. Bluetooth, WiFi, multi-screen setups often devolve into terminal debugging sessions.