BlameTheAntifa @ BlameTheAntifa @lemmy.world

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I am 100% with you. I just think there’s a beauty in giving the US a taste of their own rhetorical medicine. I’d link to the Trump tirade I was referencing, but I don’t want to do that to myself or anyone else.

Close the border, build a wall, and make the US pay for it.

That will definitely break Linux-native 32-bit games though.

Which is why Valve hasn’t adopted 64-bit. What good is Steam if an enormous number of Steam games stop working? Until WoW64 improves significantly, dropping 32bit support on Linux is a non-starter.

The number of opinion pieces having meltdowns over Mamdani is simply off the charts. The fascists and neolibs are losing their minds about this. It’s incredible.

Mamdani isn’t even remotely radical as far as leftists go. What’s he’s proposing is just the bare minimum of common sense as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

So your bank now knows you accessed certain websites. And likely one or more middleware services. And you are okay with that?

Lock him up. Lock them up. Lock them all up.

Traitors and criminals. Every one.

I suppose I will continue to repost this, which summarizes the problem well, I think.

I wish Democrats were doing the same.

1. Gaming on Linux is nearly effortless within the Steam ecosystem. Outside if that, it requires a little more technical proficiency and a willingness or excitement for learning. Lutris, Heroic, and Bottles are all tools that can help you run non-Steam Windows software on Linux. Your mileage WILL vary depending on what you want to run. Non-games are very hit-and-miss.
2. Use LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. Formulas should work natively, but macros may need to be reimplemented since LibreOffice Calc uses a different “Basic” than Excel.
3. That depends on what you mean by “Outlook”. I’d wager most Linux users automatically pick Thunderbird, which is a fairly basic mail client compared to the MS Office version of Outlook. It is comparable to the lightweight built-in Windows Outlook, though. I prefer Evolution as my mail client, which is closer to Apple Mail or Windows Outlook. Try some things out and see what you like.
4. VSCode and VSCodium are readily available FOSS editors. There is also Kate, which comes with many KDE-based distros. Jetbrains IDEs work very well on Linux, whether you use free community, free non-commercial, or paid versions.

It’s still 32bit. i’ve heard it guessed that Valve does this on purpose because so many games are still 32bit and Wine/Proton/etc aren’t fully compatible yet. What does it matter if Steam works and most of the Steam library does not.

Fedora is literally the source of this problem. Bazzite is based on Fedora.

I’ll leave this here from another post on this topic…

Kubuntu with the minimal install is a great choice. All the benefits of Ubuntu and KDE Plasma without the Snap rubbish. Canonical still gives me ick, though.

No. At least not for projects like Bazzite, where Steam features like Big Picture / SteamOS mode can’t work as a flatpak for technical reasons. There are also major problems running games that way, too. The technical details are being heatedly discussed in the Fedora community if your interested in the nitty-gritties.

It isn’t just Steam, but gaming in general. Dropping 32bit support would kill a huge swath of gaming and game preservation. Work is being done on tools like WoW64 but it’s slow going. No distro should even talk about dropping 32b until the rest of the ecosystem can pick up the slack. If Fedora wants to accelerate that, they should contribute to the projects that aim to provide backwards compatibility instead of scaring the whole Linux community with destructive and shortsighted proposals.

Bazzite is fantastic for gaming. You can still tinker by creating new “layers” with rpm-ostree, but it’s a very different way of thinking about your system. It functions more like a container than a traditional system.

Services like TurnItIn are unethical in the extreme and any institution that uses them should be protested, boycotted, not given a moment of peace until they drop them. These tools don’t work, are highly prone to false positives, harm neurodiverse students disproportionately, and steal content from vulnerable students who can’t opt out.

Notesnook.

It’s FOSS, it’s loaded with features, it’s cross-platform, and offers a self-hostable FOSS sync server, too.

Exactly. Authoritarianism is driven by two things, fearful followers who want to combat their fear with control, and social dominator leaders who take advantage of fearful followers for their own benefit.

Here is an entire free book full of research on the topic.

https://theauthoritarians.org/

I want to respond in a rational, reasonable way, but this is so factually incorrect and utterly unhinged I am not sure where to even start. Ordinarily I’d be all about dumping on Bethesda, too.