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by TingPing 4y ago
It is not piracy to use software as licensed. It is dishonest to pretend it was never released under a foss license.
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by TingPing 4y ago
The Steam Deck is quite weak, it isn't really a PC replacement. You can run Steam on desktop Linux. It is quite good.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Nothing has changed yet, we will see nearer to 2024.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Depends on your needs of course, but modern Linux is the least intrusive of the 3 for me.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Because their end products that actually generate their income have been, in the eyes of some, immoral and unhealthy to society?
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by TingPing 4y ago
This change benefits the developers and testers of the platform, with the hope they improve the software in the future. Requiring rebuilding no matter how easy would completely remove all non-dev testers and demotivate the majority of devel
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by TingPing 4y ago
Windows has no 32bit release but 64bit Windows has everything to run 32bit software.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Asking people to rebuild things isn't at all realistic. Now any user at any moment can get useful information.
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by TingPing 4y ago
I've cross shopped Amazon, Target, and Walmart from time to time. It's literally the same products from the same third-party sellers for the same prices.
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by TingPing 4y ago
I've lived in 3 cities recently. 2 day shipping every time for years.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Fedora is supported for 1 year. Ubuntu non-LTS is supported for 9 months. Subjectively Fedora has a far more robust updater and just higher quality releases in general IME.
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by TingPing 4y ago
You are correct, nothing was taken away. It is a different structure than any other distro where: A. Packages just get updates. B. The official repos are entirely supported but smaller. Ubuntu does the weird split of "It is official bu
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by TingPing 4y ago
$500 is for a physical server.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Spotify has always had "Song Radio".
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by TingPing 4y ago
Wolvic uses Gecko.
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by TingPing 4y ago
To state the obvious, Turbo Taxes website works on any device. No idea what an app would be needed for.
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by TingPing 4y ago
It will never be a popular way to use Wayland because its just a worse design.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Maintenance cost of rail is significantly cheaper. Don't sink more into bad design.
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by TingPing 4y ago
A new company appears and in a few years invests in the open source Linux desktop as much as the few big incumbents do. That is exciting!
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by TingPing 4y ago
You don't have a choice not to upgrade Windows, not practically, it will go out of support and you can't do anything about it other than hope Windows Next will be more to your liking.
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by TingPing 4y ago
WebKit also pretends to be Chrome on problematic websites. However this site wouldn't hit that logic for either browser.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Computers don't work like they did 18 years ago. Today you are rendering to a 4k display (8 million pixels) and every consumer device has a general purpose GPU that is really high performance at specific rendering tasks. So in many cas
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by TingPing 4y ago
Not only GTK4 existing but also Nautilus doing the port to GTK4 first adding all of the missing features and fixing bugs found along the way.
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by TingPing 4y ago
You can still design a GTK4 application like a GTK1 application... People just don't because, well its not very usable.
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by TingPing 4y ago
They made GtkWidget lightweight and fast. So CellRenderers have no reason to exist any more. Then they added new view widgets that use regular widgets instead of cells. An application can consistently be made using the same primitives that
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by TingPing 4y ago
As a developer of a couple GTK apps I really like the direction the project has gone in. Its a more flexible and performant toolkit than ever before.
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by TingPing 4y ago
I think the US situation just reflects economics. The value of software scales up more than hardware. So software teams and companies get more investment.
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by TingPing 4y ago
The tip is not a tip it's a bounty and ratings do affect your future orders. I have a very high rate of perfect orders.
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by TingPing 4y ago
I use it often and have an excellent experience tbh.
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by TingPing 4y ago
Fontfaces aren't copywritable in the US.

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