Any linking against GPL software requires you to also release your source code under GPL. ALGPL allows you to link to it dynamically without relicensing, but as explained, there are platforms where dynamic linking isn't an option, which means these libraries can't be used if one doesn't want to provide ALGPL licensed source code of their own product.
fsync isn't faster than ntsync, it's merely a workaround to match Linux to Windows synchronization primitives. From ntsync's official description:
It exists because implementation in user-space, using existing tools, cannot match Windows performance while offering accurate semantics.
So without this, you either have a huge perfomance hit in case of an accurate implementation or you have good performance, but might run into edge cases where software doesn't work well or at all because it's not accurate (see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2922 for examples)
But you can always do more. I have a childhood friend who, when some leagues were released, averaged about 14 hours per day for Path of Exile for two weeks straight. Like 180 hours playtime in two weeks.
Another friend of mine should be at about 8000 hours of Rocket League by now on his main account only. That's over the game's full lifespan though.
The CD wasn't really suited to be played Mobile (though I did have a portable CD player). It should rather be compared to vinyl in that regard.
I think tapes are great because no portable audio player ever came close to the Walkman regarding its cultural impact. The fact that anyone could record tapes opened up a lot of creative options.
For properly mastered music to be enjoyed at home on a potentially expensive setup, the CD was very close to perfect.
This is so stupid, it'd be hard to make up. Confusing transgenic with transgender. Holy shit. But probably par for the course for the guy who has trouble differentiating mental asylums and political asylum
A "peaceful" unification with Taiwan (meaning no open war) is obviously in China's interest. I don't think being part of the PR of China is something Taiwan or any nation should go for, regardless of their influence over the world; Hong Kong's recent history should be a warning in that regard. But China doesn't want a war with Taiwan, they want Taiwan and would probably accept a war to achieve that goal, but would prefer to avoid it.
the average package quality is currently closer to that of the AUR than the official repos of other distros.
Care to elaborate? I don't remember packages not working, but if anything, they're not building; which is basically the reverse of what happens at other distributions where sometimes, breakage during building isn't noticed because the packages aren't getting rebuilt when a dependency or the compiler toolchain changes.
Don't make the mistake to think that reliance on China is not a security threat. It might not impact privacy, but at least from what I heard here, big network operators are unable to maintain their networks without support from the hardware vendors, and not just in the sense that they need updates, patches etc, but that the OEMs rather do everything and the providers just slap their label on it.
If you know that you want to play a game that only runs on Windows?
It's their device, I never tried Windows on the notebooks I bought in recent years either