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by rstat1 3y ago
You're not wrong. I've been using the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND envvar for a while and not noticed any difference. When I said "shipable state" I was thinking "shipped, enabled by default". Probably should've jus
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by rstat1 3y ago
Binder has been part of the mainline kernel for quite a while. Also drivers for things on Android are for the most part done by third party manufactures and so its up to those third parties to upstream them. No different than any other dri
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by rstat1 3y ago
There's 2 ways to get a window to show up on a Linux desktop, the old way is called X11 and the new way called Wayland. These protocols handle putting stuff on the screen as well as input from your mouse and keyboard (and touch screen
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by rstat1 3y ago
No it isn't. Android is as much a Linux distro as any other.
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by rstat1 3y ago
There's no "official GUI" (w/e that means) on Linux for anything though, so it makes sense. Avalonia exists, and from the looks of it is better than all the crap MS has put out over the years (even on Windows, don't
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by rstat1 3y ago
I'm strictly talking about the ones that are paid timed exclusives, nothing else. No where did I say anything about being anyone being required to do anything. You added that. If a publisher chooses to do a single store front, then fin
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by rstat1 3y ago
No I think what I want is pretty obvious. No exclusives. I don't honestly care what shitty storefront something is on, as long as its not limited to one. That's literally my only gripe. Besides publishers are already free to decid
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by rstat1 3y ago
Well I wasn't specifically thinking about Epic the publisher there, because yes I agree that is dumb and I didn't actually know that Epic was the publisher here. I thought it was just another dumb exclusivity thing.
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by rstat1 3y ago
Ok then they changed it. At one point it was still on the in house engine.
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by rstat1 3y ago
It does effect you. Its a reduction of choice that benefits no one. And since there's a vastly bigger audience on Steam vs the Epic Store, I don't really think that split matters as much as people would have you believe.
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by rstat1 3y ago
My reason for refusing to give the Epic store money is pretty simple: Paid exclusives are bullshit. Especially when they're used as fodder to promote "competition", when such things are anything but.
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by rstat1 3y ago
Only for the next Witcher series. Cyberpunk 2 (w/e it ends up being called) is still on their in house engine. (Don't ask me for a source, I don't remember where I saw that info)
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by rstat1 3y ago
the last Sim City is not something that should be held as a model of what to do here. Great "DX" now when your building it, but good luck maintaining it over the long term.
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by rstat1 3y ago
"Quite a lot of draw calls are used for the Gameface-powered UI elements, though ultimately these calls are very fast compared to the rest of the rendering process." Literally quoted from the article. Standard 2D UI like that can
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by rstat1 3y ago
Ugh, last thing we need is yet another security nightmar--I mean package manager.
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by rstat1 3y ago
Kotlin is what I meant by "weird derivatives" But anyway I have used it. Didn't understand why it existed then. Still don't. All these weird languages and UI frameworks where you write hundreds of lines of code just do s
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by rstat1 3y ago
If a car can't handle a puddle, it's not fit to be driven. That's ridiculous. Doesn't matter what kind of car it is.
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by rstat1 3y ago
Not having to use Java or any of its weird derivatives.
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by rstat1 3y ago
> it would hurt investment in promising startups. Today, “company failed, but produced valuable IP” is a fallback outcome for investors. As long as those investors end up actually using those patents for something other than what is effe
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by rstat1 3y ago
I mean that's not really gonna do anything. They'll just find another favorable court and continue. The real solution is to make patent trolling impossible. Make it so if you own a patent you actually have to use it to make someth
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by rstat1 3y ago
They're still on Android because of side-loading, so probably not as much as they'd want you to believe.
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by rstat1 3y ago
I believe it has some WebDriver support, but I'm not sure how complete it is.
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by rstat1 3y ago
I really don't think it is. It was a problem with the Apple one as well or else he wouldn't keep having to get new ones.
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by rstat1 3y ago
My brother has an iPad with the Lightning port on it, and has to get new cables every few years because they start fraying and breaking around the bottom of the connector. And he isn't really rough or abusive with these cables either.
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by rstat1 3y ago
Nah I'll take an easily repairable machine with upgradable/replaceable parts over soldered downed unrepairable e-waste any day of the week.
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by rstat1 3y ago
They definitely use it for more than that, because I'm sure I've seen it ship with Windows games as well. Also there's exactly 2 ways to get a window on Linux, and those 2 ways are common to pretty much every modern distro. S
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by rstat1 3y ago
from the same article "it is based on a proprietary microkernel" "....Despite popular misconceptions to the contrary, Horizon (the Switch's OS) is not largely derived from FreeBSD code, nor from Android..."
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by rstat1 3y ago
Also borrows the whole of its compositor "nvnflinger" from Android's "SurfaceFlinger". I'd call that a pretty significant piece.
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by rstat1 3y ago
TIL Unreal 5 based games were "legacy"
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by rstat1 3y ago
Actually its only the PS5 that's FreeBSD based. Switch runs a completely proprietary Nintendo OS that borrows a lot from Android.

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