TheGingerNut

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

KDE, with breeze and a custom colour scheme. I find it less likely to lead to usability issues.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know about super cute now… Definitely cute but not necessarily super cute

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"scores" = groups of 20

so somewhere between 40 and 100 players quit the game because they couldn't say a racial slur. In a game with apparently 2.5 million daily players. That can't be right. In a playerbase that size I'd expect the percentage of bigots with no life to be somewhere in the tens of thousands.

Guess it was a slow news day

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes, because linux drivers never break!

You might not understand the pain if you don't own a tv tuner card but trust me, it's ROUGH!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The stifling of innovation. So that's more of a feature to microsoft

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Linux has technical debt. The kernel only just stopped supporting the i386. I can't imagine what patches upon patches were required to make the same code run on even 2 processors released 40 years apart, let alone every processor released in between.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Rebuilding the app for the newer version is an objectively better solution, because it allows you to take advantage to new features. 64-bit migrations are a game changer for example. But its an ungodly amount of effort. Every single sodding package has a person responsible for building it for every distro that supports it. Its only because its on the distros to make a given program work on their distro that the system works at all. I agree that I'd rather it be rebuilt to fit into the new system. But that's a lot of work. Never forget that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

I'll say it once, I'll say it forever: Windows has better backward compatibility, period. Even compared to linux. Rebuilding an old open source linux app to work on a modern distro can be done, but it's a process that could take hours or days. And if you don't have the source code you're shit out of luck. Have fun getting that binary built against a 1 year old version of glibc to work. This, incidentally is what things like flatpak, docker and ubuntu's nonsense competitor to both (of which our hatred is entirely rational no really stop laughing) are trying to solve.

Meanwhile microsoft office still handles leap years wrong because it might break backwards compatibility with old documents. Binaries built for windows xp will usually just work on windows 11. Packages built for ubuntu 22.0 often won't run on ubuntu 23.0. You never notice this because linux are a culture of recompilers. Rebuilding every last package once a month is just how some distros roll. But that's not backwards compatibility, that's ongoing maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I hope they win. I want that president on the books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Magnetic media is still king of price to capacity (Hard drives) and I literally do still record broadcast television on one of my linux boxes

 

I've been using linux for more than a decade at this point, but in all that time I've rarely had a disk drive. The fact that this command exists and is just, one of the core utils included with your distro along with su and kill and mount and more is just… so beautiful. 10 years amore with this OS and I'm still learning things that the elders in the audience are snickering at me for only learning 5 minutes ago while they were popping their disk trays open with a single command back when disk drives were a non optional component.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You think Bond villains weren't taking credit for their underlings inventions? What a high opinion you have of evil people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Friendship over with Musad

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