And those countries are wrong. Using a comma as a decimal point makes no logical sense, especially in computing. And it’s ugly from an aesthetics standpoint.
Also, both systems make equally as much - or little - sense. Math notations is just using whichever symbol is commonly available and easy to write without asking whether it makes logical sense.
Are you complaining that the factorial operator makes no logical sense either? Or the “#” symbol for the cardinality of a set?
I think what plays into this is also language. In English / to you, I presume it makes perfect sense to say “Pi is approximately three point one four”. In other languages (for me, German) the literal translation “Pi ist ungefähr drei Punkt eins vier” sounds awful and wrong. We say “Pi ist ungefähr drei Komma eins vier” (“Pi is approximately three comma one four”) so we also write it like this 🤷🏼♀️
It sounds wrong to you because you grew up saying it another way.
There is no one way that objectively makes more sense than the other, each language simply has its own habits. If everyone in Germany said “drei Punkt eins vier”, it wouldn’t sound awful to you at all.
Sure, but if everyone said it differently, than that would also be part of the language. I don’t disagree with you, I just think you’ve described language (in this context) 😄
I like that that implies that the entire source code for the operating system and all its packages is being ship of Theseus’d twice in addition to that
I’m now wondering if OP is in a locale that flips the thousand separator with the decimal point or if their update client is proposing 2 updates and roughly 10% of a third
I have an Intel Celeron laptop and an i7-4770k i7 desktop computer. Zypper is just too slow when you have many packages installed, but I require them for my work.
Regardless, a Celeron processor should be more than enough for downloading and updating packages. I’d rather not blame the hardware for a task as trivial as that.
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