eveninghere @ eveninghere @beehaw.org

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The moment of a historic hand shake

If Linux ever becomes used by my friends that movement will be driven by big techs or governments. Our voices aren't a big factor and we should admit that so that we spend time better.

DELL sold Ubuntu models and they abandoned them I believe.

I think you should clarify the problem first.

Privacy? You lose your privacy the moment you publish your blog anyway.

Is it visibility? You never expected Google to show your blog in most cases.

AI training? You could self-host and hope companies respect your robot.txt. But what's the actual problem if you released your blog to the public in the first place? Anybody could've copy & pasted your blog also before this AI era.

This caused me PTSD going back 20 years.

Acting I thought they dropped snap in favor of fkatpak finally.

It's a sad phenomenon.

Something like "proton your_game_here".

Beware that on the Linux land you're on your own. People say "things just work except [something]". I don't say that because it feels like moving the goal post every time something gets fixed just to face the next problem for a niche person like me.

The reality is, you never know. My favorite title apparently worked in 10fps. Nobody could figure out why. Then some update on something suddenly fixed it and that's when people finally confirmed it was a software bug all along.

Even people saying Linux can play any game admits "if you can't spend good efforts, you're not for Linux."

Anything you pick, make sure to first do a web search on how well your games work on Linux.

The problem with alternatives is that every step towards another alternative loses a huge number of distro users, leading to insufficient manpower. If I were you I'd stick with recommending Manjaro. But if Manjaro's untrustworthy then maybe something even more mainstream.

In beta stage yet, but Cosmic might become the most stable in a few years. I've never seen an open source general purpose Linux DE with that level of seriousness from a business company.

Nailed! You perfectly described the weird feeling I had for more than a decade and yet couldn't figure out what.

trans-excluding radical feminist

I'm amused to see we can categorize idiocy. (I don't have anything against feminism itself btw.)

Oh, I agree with you there, but the topic was about something different.

I wonder if atomic desktops would change manufacturers' mind. We have to admit LTSes like from Ubuntu failed to make pre-installed Linux popular.

Silverblue contains too much cutting-edge software to be pre-installed as of now, but if Red Hat decides to provide a mechanism for manufacturers to better stabilize Silverblue I'd take it seriously. Automatic updates with cleanly split customization mechanisms, and the source is available. If the PC is just supposed to do web browsing with couple peripherals like a fucking printer (don't ask me why), it might be preferable over Windows. And my relatives can't configure Windows on their own anyway.

At the same time I don't know why Chromebook isn't more popular cus it's probably good enough for 90% of use cases. (The rest is basically elderly people who want 10GB photos in their 2TB SSDs, only to lose them "accidentally". Maybe Chromebook can do that, too, but I just can't recommend it due to corner cases I'm not aware of. I mean, I don't want to test Chromebooks for my relatives.)

So, I checked how my fav game is doing on proton, and it's Linux as usual. Mostly fine with recent efforts. Someone patched proton to resolve many remaining issues, but some people still experience issues.

As a tech geek who fucks around with my set up, I'm usually going to be an idiot belonging to that category of some people who face problems.

And if I use Windows the game dev will do the work. Sad reality.

Given the nature of fediverse, this specific category of people might indeed throw away Windows for their private machines.

Yup, the megarich owns, what, 99% of the wealth? 99% of people are just negligible errors in statistics, depending on how you measure the economy.

Basically the same as fake news. Check web articles and so on. (Reading source code is often infeasible.)

You can also check Linux package managers. Official repositories from, eg, Red Hat and Suse are well maintained by the companies. I'd trust also the official Arch repo. I guess Debian is trustworthy, too, but don't know the process there.

Regarding OpenReplay, you could also check the companies listed as using OpenRepay. (I couldn't find any official source from those companies that mentioned OpenReplay, but that's rather expected given that they don't have to open their software stack.)

The governments are abusing researchers. How do institutions even help them?