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by Zhyl 5y ago
To everyone reading this who feels uneasy about this, has broader concerns about the direction of desktop computing generally and Microsoft Windows specifically I say this: "give Linux a go". You may not like it, you may go back t
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Back to the Future with RSS(ncase.me)
244 points by Zhyl 5y ago|101 comments
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot of sense.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
If you haven't added the New pipe repository directly yet (instructions to do this on their website) I'd recommend it. The Newpipe repo is usually a few days ahead of the F-Droid one and means fixes for breakages usually come thro
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I think in contrast Linux has plenty going for it, especially in the context of Windows being increasingly buggy, bloated, advertising-ridden, telemetry sending behemoth which has frustrated users universally with mandated update policies.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean. You can play games on it. That's good enough for a lot of people. I don't really see why it being due to a compatibility layer or being native has much to do with my claim.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Thankfully thanks to ProtonDB we can see exactly which games run and what the caveats are. I think "it does not play most recent games" is untrue without qualification.
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by Zhyl 5y ago
It's not as good as the evangelists make out, it's not as hopeless as the detractors make out. The "news" is that in the last 5 years it has gone from "absolutely not viable for gaming" to "good enough for
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by Zhyl 5y ago
But running out of the box with no tweaks includes Gold, Platinum and Native which is far more than 50%. I'm less about trying to imply that Linux is "crushing" Windows and more about it being seen as a viable option (i.e. &q
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by Zhyl 5y ago
That's true, I don't think it will be exploding without either of the blockers you mention being overcome. I do think the above poster hasn't made it clear the experience they're speaking to. A lot of "anti" se
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Closer than you might think. With Valves efforts now 88% [0] of the top hundred Steam games run on Linux and there is ongoing work to improve drivers, support and UX. Steam now allows you to install any Windows game on linux in the same way
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Aha! Thank you!
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Notes: * As an idea, this is excellent. It's intuitive to use and provides full instructions on how to implement * Putting an element in any other position than the end of the prompt is fiddly. * I'd love for the option to to be a
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by Zhyl 5y ago
In December '19 the company that would end up being acquired by Brave did a number of blog posts [0] where they explained the tech. The short answer is 'a lot of word2vec'. [0] https://www.0x65.dev/
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by Zhyl 5y ago
> I haven't yet figured out how to open them in side-by-side windows Two iframes side by side? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23737427/how-to-put-two-...
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Absolutely, and I think this raises the question of "in what sense are these 'replacements' for existing software?". If we see them as "immediate drop-in replacements" then the value of them must be that they&#
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by Zhyl 5y ago
Wow, a lot of hate for this list, but I'll unpick something that is slightly below the surface here: We are currently seeing a bit of a command line renaissance. The justification for this is a 'rust rewrite', but as many h
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by Zhyl 5y ago
It's worth noting that 'Smart Contracts' are more 'Financial Instruments as code' rather than 'Ricardian Contracts' which are what most people think when they see 'smart' and 'contract'
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by Zhyl 5y ago
I like the idea of Tau but "pi is wrong" is wrong. Pi is correct. The pitch for Tau is as a replacement for Pi. That it is more logical than Pi. Tau has an important lesson to tell: intuition is important and in many cases shiftin
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by Zhyl 5y ago
A programming Language for Law is a bad idea. Or, certainly, one must have a very clear idea of what the goals are for such a programming language. For example this (almost throwaway) comment from another post: >I'm wondering what c
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by Zhyl 5y ago
https://linuxjourney.com/ http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line/introduction/
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by Zhyl 6y ago
They didn't offer native Linux support, but from its inception Valve has been working to remove dependencies and combat existential threats. It used the quake engine for half life, then developed their own engine. They were dependent o
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by Zhyl 6y ago
I was thinking more from a point of view of Epic, the company, wanting to secure its future. In Epic's case they're actually currently suing (and running a propaganda campaign) against Apple and Google because the latter are charg
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Valve's commitment to Linux is outstanding. I am genuinely surprised that other vendors (GOG, Epic) haven't joined Valve in making Linux based hedges. Epic have given grants to Godot, Blender and other projects that commoditise th
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Engagement started as 'we want to make our party as good as possible so that you want to come and bring all your friends' and ended up being Kathy Bates in Misery .
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by Zhyl 6y ago
I think flipping the flag is likely not the only amount of work. Support will at the very least involve customer support, legal, marketing, sales etc. Dev effort to enable is likely not a factor in their reasoning to not support the platfor
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by Zhyl 6y ago
That's fair. I know it's more likely that this is the case on HN, but there's been multiple times on Reddit when I've asked people to elaborate and it turns out that when they say "I've spoken to Devs" the
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Given that this news provider reports quite frequently on Proton, I can understand that they assumed their readership would know what they meant. I will concede that the wording is pretty loose objectively.
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by Zhyl 6y ago
I really think we need to get out of the habit of calling game developers 'Lazy', especially for an industry that is famous, notorious even, for overwork and crunching. I think it would be fairer to say that it doesn't get pr
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by Zhyl 6y ago
If it helps, Lutris has config for most games that are open source and available. https://lutris.net/

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