Wow, Elon, you think it's bad to give one company full control over something? You think someone should step in and stop them? You think closed ecosystems are bad for customers? HMMM
I mean, I could say the same thing about, say, calculus. Except learning a language could give someone a wider perspective. Plus, maybe people would talk more to native speakers of a language if they knew it.
Games are already doing a lot of complex things, and pretty much all games are inherited graphical (other than text adventures I guess).
And a game engine is useful since it helps you do a lot, but it's also a huge dependency with a lot of moving parts. This can be a problem even for games, but games do so many things that having an engine often outweighs the downsides.
Using ytdlp as an example again, that just has to connect to the Internet, and write to a file. Using a game engine for that would be major overkill and make the project way bigger then it has to be, as well as increasing the barrier to entry for developers who want to contribute. Python can do all those things but is lighter, smaller, more flexible, and has a much larger userbase.
I'll add one thing that I don't think has been said, adding gui adds a lot to the dependencies and complexity of maintaining a program. Keeping it in the cli keeps the size of the program down, and ensures it will work longer and on more devices since it's dependent on less libraries that could change.
Because of that, if a cli program gets a gui it's usually a separate project, like how yt-dlp has front-ends like this.
If they want to use it that's fine. I'm just cautioning against using a command line tool like that until they feel somewhat comfortable with the terminal.
Docker is a developer* tool, not really something you should be using without some technical knowledge, or at least some experience in the terminal. It's purely a terminal application, so you just type "docker" in the terminal to use it. You can also type "man docker" to view the manual (which shows arguments and command you can use) but again, that won't help much without some prior knowledge.
The things you're trying to use look like self-hosted web servers, which is a lot to set up for someone who's new to the terminal. I won't stop you if you want, but be warned. I'd recommend using something simpler like cozy, which you should be able to find and download in the software store.
*Edit: it's not only a developer tool, it's used for deployment as well. I lumped the two together. It's still a tool made for people with more familiarity using the terminal though.
Yeah it's fine right now, but these companies are prone to changing their minds. I think it's a good option but also wouldn't put it past discord to suddenly decide to crack down one day.
I would caution anyone using a client mod like that, since it is technically against Discord's terms of service. To be fair I've never heard of them banning anyone for that, but it's worth noting. Webcord is generally a much safer option.
So you can share audio while sharing your screen just like on Windows. Before the only way was to route it through your mic which is annoying and has a ton of drawbacks.
It's a tool for easily creating realistic audio in games. Basically you can give it a 3d environment, and it can bake sound propagation information so that sounds have realistic reverb and filters. They've used it for some of their recent games (most notably Half-Life: Alyx).
At least they still have an archived version of csgo that you can still play community servers on. With overwatch 2 they just straight up made the original completely unplayable and inaccessible.
Monitors at different refresh rates is a downside of x11, which Mint uses for all its desktop environments. Fortunately, they're working on moving to Wayland for the Cinnamon edition, which has better support for that. There's an experimental version you can use now, and they plan to be done in 2026.
I'd test things first ofc, maybe with your laptop plugged into one of the monitors.
I mean, for most distros you should be about to install and use the OS without touching the terminal. Yeah, you may want to use it for some things (idk what you were trying to do) but it's kind of the same thing in Windows with registry edits and such. It's a tool and if you don't know how to use it, you're probably gonna get lost.
Also how is it easier to go to a webpage to download an installer instead of using a store? Even microsoft is trying to move in that direction.
I don't want to say your experience is invalid because I definitely think Linux can improve in terms of user experience. But it's not very helpful to just complain about stuff vaguely.
A decent GPU (rx 570). Could play any game I wanted without going through desperate measures to get it to run at minimal settings, could do more with game dev and 3d modeling, etc..
These days, integrated graphics are honestly pretty decent though. Hell, I'm pretty sure the steam deck's apu is more powerful than my machine in a few ways.
Wow, Elon, you think it's bad to give one company full control over something? You think someone should step in and stop them? You think closed ecosystems are bad for customers? HMMM