I hope EU slaps Apple hard for abusing their market position in this. I've seen it happen in several companies I've worked in. Developers prefer Linux, but it's the only machine you can build for all target platforms, so.... macbooks it is.
You seem to have some impressive confirmation bias going on. What makes you think gaming is dead? The only real argument here, which you aren't even making, is mobile gaming market, but that seems almost remarcably as if it's created a new market and not really affecting pc/console gaming.
Edit: just read some of your other comments now. Feel free to move on, not interested in a discussion.
What is it you want to know? "why do you use Linux" seems like it assumes something about what you might want to know.
Like, why Linux and not MacOS/Windows? Or, what are the Linux specific stuff you use it for? And when you say "Linux", I'm sure you don't mean the kernel, but likely Linux kernel + some package manager + some window manager?
The answer to a lot of these things are true statements for me, but will come across as incredulous. They are:
Gnome is a more consistent user experience over both MacOS and Windows. Gnome 9/10, MacOS 4/10, W11 3/10.
It is the actual "just works". (the list is looong)
It's much more usable for power users.
Are the main ones. I cannot think of a single thing either MacOS or W11 does better, that isn't "well, you can run X software on it", which is a fair argument and likely a valid deal breaker for many use cases/professions. But also not really the fault of the OS. And there are many, many reasons why MacOS and W11 are a pain to use.
True. Governments and respective institutions should however not. Some countries understand this. Other have had their ISO standard committees bought out by MS in more than shady circumstances. I remember when this was discussed in Norway. Everyone in the panel concluded to use ODF. They were ignored. They all resigned.
LibreOffice Writer follows Open Document Format, unlike MS Office Word. This is intentional by MS, because they have significant market share. So, any broken files is "because of LibreOffice", even though the inverse is true.
So, I consider Office Word to be a dangerous and harmful product, and I'm glad that it isn't available on Linux/Wine. It just isn't good, and LibreOffice works for 99.9% of what people use that kind of software for.
Can we just reset humanity and start over? I'm so tired of human stupidity. The worst part about growing older is realising that a whole new generation is going to be equally dumb and human morality is just brownian motion.
Women kan chose chose what happens to their body? mind fucking blown.
If we are discussing morality and philosophy, I would argue that the question is still not "murky". I reject your premise that a one cannot make arguments as to the morality of future actions, for a person who has committed immoral acts. If we can accept the premise that Russia's war in Ukraine is that of an aggressor state, participating in it as combatant, is immoral. Going to jail for refusing to participate in it, is not immoral. Whether or not that person has previously ground up people, is not relevant.
That doesn't mean the decision is an easy one to make. Or, it's much less easy than it is for me to armchair my words around. But I don't think morality is hard to pin down here.
I'm fine with a lenient punishment. If it turns out he did it to get attention, I'm happy to grant him that wish by an exceptionally harsh punishment, so much so that more little shits wanting to make society worse and being rewarded for it, will see that the risk is too high. Don't go into female only carriages in Japan, don't cut down trees, don't do dumb stunts against homeless people, etc.
Half the time it's paid actors, but when it's not, throw the book at them, or force extended community service to remedy the harm they do. Financially penalise any monetary gain made from such stunts. Etc.
Happy to help. Good luck. I also noticed your username twice now, I wrote about the windows installer messing up my RAID system. Lemmy is a small world yet :) Have a good one.
I unplug physicals disks when installing windows. Learned the hard way when windows placed the boot partition on a device it could not detect the filsystem of. It destroyed my RAID disks (a little but my fault, because I messed up the recovery).
This is what Windows installer saw (going by memory, this was 8 years ago)
SSD 500 GB (either it recognised ext4 file system, or this one was unknown)
SSD 500 GB (Where I specified to install windows)
4 x HDD 8TB (unknown disks, unknown file system, Windows unaware that this was a RAID-5 software dm-raid)
What did it to? It created a new partition table and wrote data to a new boot partition it made on one of the 8TB disks, no questions asked.
So, to the people who answered you that windows installer cannot do this. Maybe they fixed it. But it certainly could, and it cetianly did. I remember very carefully going through the installer because I was concerned about this happening. I thought about unplugging them, but was lazy. Because "it would be insane for windows to write on a disk it cannot identify the file system of".
Lessons learned:
If you plan to install windows on a disk along side Linux, install windows first, if you can. Safest bet is still to:
If you cannot, unplug all other disks other than the one windows is intended to be on.
Edit: I found post on this way back when, but leaving what I wrote as is.
I share the dislike of everything needing apps these days. The sony one was a little bit annoying because it seemed to have some paid products looking like normal features. It also occasionally turns on a feature that was quite annoying, where talking (even clearing your throat) would turn off noise cancelling and even amplify ambient noose. And I had to use the app to switch that feature off once a week.
The Momentum 4 works well without the app. It's nice if you want to change the equaliser settings. I sometimes do as they have a preset for audiobooks/podcasts. And it's been nice to confirm the effect of gestures you can do on the headphone (most moderns over the ear headphones have capasitive finger gestures on the flat side). Bluetooth works fine out of the box, and with it you can check battery power, switch tracks, volume, all of that stuff.
The only thing you really need the app for, is updating the headphone firmware, which you likely want to do, as they sometimes improve the notice cancelling, etc. Sidenote, that update took almost half an hour to complete, which is the longest firmware update I've ever seen. I havent checked if it is possible to update firmware using a computer and USB.
In any case. If it helps you out, I'm glad. Have a good one.
I hope EU slaps Apple hard for abusing their market position in this. I've seen it happen in several companies I've worked in. Developers prefer Linux, but it's the only machine you can build for all target platforms, so.... macbooks it is.