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by itvision 2y ago
The garbage is a result of me using Linux for almost 30 years and also being an active Linux maintainer. I can vouch for every word in the article except maybe the last section but this discussion alone speaks for itself, so even that part
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by itvision 2y ago
I'll just leave this here, please argue with it: https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future
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by itvision 2y ago
There won't be one. I've said it all. I was thinking about adding a "Security" section but I wasn't convinced it was necessary. Security in Linux is horrible in general. * People use `sudo` for anything and everythi
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by itvision 2y ago
I have lots of ten year old Android apps running on my Android 14 without too many issues. In Wine/Windows I run Windows applications from the 90s. In Windows 11 64 you can install and use Office 97. In Linux nothing even close is poss
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by itvision 2y ago
> I mean, that's just false. Most drivers are done as kernel modules and you can push/pull them in without missing a beat. 0.1% of people in the world could that. 0.001% of people in the world would do that. That's not fal
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by itvision 2y ago
You mean a page without 30MB of JavaScript dependencies, 50MB of images, 10MB of fonts and not sucking all your private data is "low quality". Yeah, you're absolutely right, I'm going for quality content, not shiny crap.
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by itvision 2y ago
I'm doing fine thanks. You could find me among Linux kernel contributors.
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by itvision 2y ago
No one, you could read just the first couple of paragraphs. The PC is more or less dead and Linux on desktop is even more dead.
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by itvision 2y ago
Not pure garbage I'd say but too many projects are indeed lacking. glibc has worked great except there's no forward compatibility :-)
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by itvision 2y ago
That's been the case indeed. Thanks a lot.
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by itvision 2y ago
> It is the Win32 API and DirectX. Linux is great at emulating something. Yeah. Mind the word "native" though.
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by itvision 2y ago
Is it desktop Linux though? Or it's a gaming handheld? Only why would you call it a desktop OS then?
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by itvision 2y ago
Desktop Linux market share speaks for itself. It's basically 0 or close to 0. I know I know it's been around 2 or even 3%. It's laughable. And 99% of its users are hackers (programmers/developers/engineers/scie
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by itvision 2y ago
The article has been rewritten from scratch and made a lot shorter and accessible for the non-techies.
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by itvision 2y ago
> When I see the articles I believe the title should be "Linux is not Windows so I do not like it". I've used Linux for as much only I'm a tad more humble. Mentioned more than a dozen times in the kernel git log. Not
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by itvision 2y ago
> it's free. Over the last 25 years I've spent hundreds of hours fighting with its bugs. Not free by a long shot. > it's stable. Anything but. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issu
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by itvision 2y ago
> Most apps/DEs/etc. use either GTK or Qt. Which version of GTK? 2, 3, 4? Which version of Qt? 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? What about X11/Wayland/Win32 compatibility? Oh, it's a$$. And who will maintain/rewrite the sourc
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by itvision 2y ago
You mean exceedingly rare apps that use it? Yeah. And they weigh in hundreds of megabytes, right, because they come with all the dependencies starting with glibc. Yeah, that will totally work and has been a smashing success. Except it never
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by itvision 2y ago
> I don’t think this article is written very charitably Why would it be? It's about Linux on the _desktop_ where it sucks a$$. Open Reddit, open any distro related forum, open unix stackexchange - hundreds of support messages daily
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by itvision 2y ago
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues Just check this bug tracker. Just this one. Bug report on top of bug report caused by a fix which was caused by another fix. Sadly it's not just one bug tr
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by itvision 2y ago
DirectX and Win32 are Windows APIs. Are you saying Linux has "games" because it excels at ... emulating them? What's the point of using/running Linux then when you have a much higher chance of running games successfully
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Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition(itvision.altervista.org)
122 points by itvision 2y ago|460 comments
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A new sneaky way to track Android users in Russia (text in Russian)(vc.ru)
1 points by itvision 2y ago|1 comments
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by itvision 2y ago
Just to make things clear, Phoronix said they are being "delisted". No, they have actually been banished, because if you're not a maintainer of some Linux kernel subsystem, Linus Torvalds stops accepting merge requests from y
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Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted(phoronix.com)
134 points by itvision 2y ago|193 comments
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by itvision 2y ago
> 1) The guy was marketing an open-text messenger as an e2ee messenger Citations needed.
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by itvision 2y ago
> TCP is a simple protocol with no ability to control or monitor content, whereas Telegram holds keys for most data and is capable of content moderation. What? And how do governments of the world block websites, services or the entire ex
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by itvision 2y ago
> FYI, this is a totally misleading and false claim. > Telegram uses the MTProto 2.0 Cloud algorithm for non-secret chats[1][2]. FYI you don't understand encryption and are spewing pristine BS. Only p2p secret chats use e2e encry
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YouTube has effectively been banned in Russia(themoscowtimes.com)
1 points by itvision 2y ago|0 comments
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Linux Loses Talent(twitter.com)
8 points by itvision 2y ago|15 comments

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