Mine is basically the same, but since it pipes your filesystem layout into aplay instead of random bits, it’s not just brown noise.
It plays you the song of your system.
(also, it can damage your speakers, headphones and/or ears)

I miss the old days when you could do
ls -R / | aplay

There’s no sudo, so it’s perfectly safe!!

No, that’s the state of documentation on Linux.

In OpenBSD, bad or lacking documentation is treated as a release-critical bug in the package.

gr8 b8 m8

I just don’t understand how an app that’s primarily a chat can fail at notifications and searching through the chat log.

Try searching for something that was said in a chat last month.
Then follow what was said in reply.

Now as an admin, try to delete an image someone has shared with the team.
Or control who can create new teams.

But my biggest pet peeve, which annoys me literally every day, is how it shows a notification for a new message in your task bar.
You click on it, Teams opens how you left it, and you read the message.
But the notification stays. To get rid of it, you have to click on a different chat, then back on the one where the message was posted.

Next iteration will be “Copilot for Teams”.
Whenever you get a message, Copilot will auto-send an answer unless you click “no” in a popup without window decorations, showing a timer.
On Windows Pro, you can disable this with a registry key, but that resets with feature updates.

I don’t want to.

By “coexist” we mean being installed side by side with barely distinguishable icons, and when you try to log into the wrong one with the wrong type of Microsoft account (where the login mask looks exactly the same), it throws a helpful error message saying “this account does not exist”.

They don’t.
Programs only show themselves when you take an action (hit a key) or when it’s urgent (in a notification).
Otherwise they’re supposed to stay invisible.

So in Gnome philosophy, your sensor would notify you when the temp goes critical and otherwise you’d have to open it manually.

It’s Slackware’s approach to dependency resolution. You don’t need to resolve dependencies on your system if you just install every package in the repo.

The installed size is under 15 GB, and you get a system that works equally well for a desktop as for a server with lots of app choices out of the box.

(Throwing the kitchen sink at you was the common way to install Linux in the old days, before quick Internet)

Teams helps cooperation by uniting everyone in their shared hatred for Teams.

Slackware’s package manager is extremely easy to use:

slackpkg upgrade-all upgrades all installed packages
slackpkg install-new installs all packages that were added to the repo
slackpkg clean-system uninstalls all packages that were removed from the repo

And that’s all.

Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement at some point?

everyone is used to it

Counterpoint: The main criticism of Gnome seems to be that it doesn’t match the design philosophy of Windows 95, which users are used to.
But at this point, an entire human generation later, and 14 years after the release of Gnome 3, I don’t think that’s a valid criticism anymore.

Microsoft is thriving and will continue to do so, just probably on machines running Linux.
They get paid $$ per month per employee by most businesses in the developed world.
There is a mature alternative to desktop Windows now. But there isn’t for AD, Azure, Exchange, Kerberos and M365.

If you don’t just look at desktop computers, GNU/Linux and Android/Linux are the most used operating systems in the world (not sure which is in the lead).
If you look only at desktop computers, the most used OS is Minix, which is installed on most Intel CPUs and motherbords.

Gnome’s official stance on that matter:
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2017/08/31/status-icons-and-gnome/

tl/dr:
They’re an old spec from 2002
They’re too small to click for people with increased accessibility needs
They serve the needs of app publishers (making their app visible at all times), not those of the user
-> There are too many of them
-> They look bad

Gimp
Is
Mangy
Photoshop

It’s a non-profit, open source project.
If you don’t like it, just ignore it.
It’s not a commercial project where market share is important.