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by okanat 1y ago
You get better DOS emulation with DOSBox, rather than trying to make the modern peripherals work on a CSM / BIOS system.
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by okanat 1y ago
It is the result of lack of regulation. They are all allowed to buy their competition.
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by okanat 1y ago
Which is a direct replacement to Docker Desktop unlike Podman. It matters when you have a WSL2 setup and want to access to the same container database from both Windows and Linux side (useful for cross-platform software). With Podman you ca
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by okanat 1y ago
We did have GUI installers in 2005. At least SUSE did. Linux hasn't made much significant changes to its core architecture. There are better implementations for many things like Pulseaudio and Pipewire or Wayland compositors are a bit
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by okanat 1y ago
If your $DISPLAY managed by Xorg server goes away your X apps will also crash. Wayland combines the server with the parts that draw your window decoration into the same process. Under Windows everything including the GPU driver can crash. A
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by okanat 1y ago
200% is just rendering the same pixels and them drawing them 4 times and driving a single monitor at the single resolution is easy stuff. Would your HiDPI system with one monitor at 125%, one at 100% and another at 150% scaling? This is whe
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by okanat 1y ago
I have a 13 year old laptop that runs Windows 10. I cannot run Linux because neither nouveau nor Nvidia drivers support its GPU. It has 8 GiBs of RAM and it works perfectly for light browsing and document editing.
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Then you cannot claim that Linux works out of the box. It doesn't if you need to select hardware for it. However, I already know that since I actually used Linux for 15 years. Both on the consumer side as a normal user for 15 years and
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by okanat 1y ago
Of course that depends on the component and the access level. RAM chip broken? Tough luck. A deep kernel driver accessing random memory like CrowdStrike; you'll still crash. One needs an almost microkernel-like separation for preventin
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by okanat 1y ago
No. WSL2 is a Linux VM. It doesn't expose Windows API internals or implementation details. It uses normal, already well-documented public ones. Wine and ReactOS can already use the publicly available documentation and they are still be
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by okanat 1y ago
NT is a better consumer kernel that Linux. It can survive many driver crashes that Linux cannot. Why should Microsoft drop a better kernel for a worse one?
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> You can do very few productive things with Windows other than software development. I guess you meant Linux here
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by okanat 1y ago
You need to make sure that they use Wayland. Running X11 apps is significantly slower in wslg. Native Wayland apps run much faster.
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by okanat 1y ago
You can setup local and limited user accounts under Windows. Many applications including every development tool out there doesn't need any admin permissions. Spyware and adware is a government policy / regulation problem. Thanks t
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by okanat 1y ago
> people whose main environment is Linux feel (correctly) that these problems have been solved a long time ago There is also the quiet part to this. People who religiously use Linux and think that it is the best OS that can ever be, don&
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by okanat 1y ago
Nothing works out of the box with Linux. They may "seem" to work out of the box but you realize how many little tweaks go into making a laptop/consumer device work fully when you work as an embedded dev. It is quite difficult
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by okanat 1y ago
Misleading oversensationalised title.
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I used pixi for that. It uses Conda ecosystem but you get proper lockfiles and great native binary package support.
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by okanat 1y ago
R sucks for any real programming tasks that you don't hardcode every single thing. It sucks at loading modules from your own project. It sucks to find the path of the script you're executing. Bacially everything is stateful in R.
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by okanat 1y ago
Some of them like Revolut and N26 are. German federal authority actually forced N26 to limit customer acquisition until they fixed their money laundering issues. Wise is a "payment processor" so it isn't regulated to the same
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Our system isn't a free market. With 95 years of corporate copyright you'll have no free market. Neither with 20 years of patents. China probably has freer markets than West now, because since 1950s the West is constantly siding w
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by okanat 1y ago
Win32 ones don't only new WinUI ones do (similar to GTK2 vs GTK3+). You need to add that coloring manually. You can query the dark mode with Win32-only API[1] but you need to make your own styles or you can use undocumented APIs (that
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by okanat 1y ago
Indeed. However, you need to recognize that having those features in stdlib creates a huge bias against swapping them out. How many people in Java actually uses alternative DB APIs than JDBC? How many alternative encoding libraries are out
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by okanat 1y ago
> I don't think you can fathom the amount of people that have phones with roughly 3 years of no android updates as their primary device with which they use all the digital services they use, Banking, Texting, Doomscrolling, Porn, ..
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by okanat 1y ago
Citing CGPGrey: Solutions that are the first thing you can think of are terrible and ineffective. Good safety/security culture encourages players to not hide their problems. Corporations are greedy bastards. They'll do everything
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See, the trait system in Rust actually forced you to discover your requirements at a very core level. It is not a bug, but a feature. If you need HTTPS, then you need to include the code to do HTTPS of course. Then LTO shouldn't remove
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Having some of those libraries listed and then not being able to change API or the implementation is what killed modern C++ adoption (along with the language being a patchwork on top of C). As some of the previous commenters said, when you
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It is there with Office 365 and VS Code live share. They were among the first to make a complete and commercially successful coediting experience.
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Europe has quite a bit individualism too. Maybe even more when people can freely express themselves without judgment, you know. But to have individualism for everybody, everybody needs to eat and have a dignified life. Cutting less lucky pe
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It is similar to the lack of a perfect MS Office with full VBA support, or the lack of well-designed CAD software for 21st century or the lack of industry-grade photography software someone can earn a living from, or the lack of reverse-eng

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