Ronll

"Part of the difficulty was conceptual -- programmers were not used to having to write code that used the same number of calls to random within the simulation (yes, the random numbers were seeded and synchronized as well)."

What do they mean, "same number of calls to random within the simulation", didn't get it

Agreed, I'm also an SWE, pro FOSS and all but the Linux Desktop is just not there.

also these days my first suggestion for most users would be chromeOS or similar.