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by shmerl 1y ago
Good chance that this version will run on most up to date distros without much issue. So I don't see it as a reason not to release it. > proprietary and open source hardware drivers etc Somewhat of a problem, but not so much anymo
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by shmerl 1y ago
Yeah, that's a good point.
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by shmerl 1y ago
A bigger problem for me is not lack of Linux Galaxy client, but that a bunch of developers only release Linux versions on Steam (Larian with BG3 is a recent example). But I agree in general. The issue is probably that GOG is a smaller store
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by shmerl 1y ago
> Finally, existing editors just aren't well set up to handle this. Vim's syntax highlighting is a mess of regular expressions and special cases Neovim can use treesitter for it.
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by shmerl 1y ago
1984 itself summarizes it very succinctly - power itself is the goal. All the "left" or "right" coloring of it becomes noise compared to the primary motivation of all dictatorships - self perpetuating power.
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by shmerl 1y ago
It's amazing how keen Orwell was in describing the twisted mind of dictators. All of that applies today as it did then.
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by shmerl 1y ago
> POSIX-specified utilities use uppercase envvars, but that’s not prescriptive for your programs. Quite the contrary: you’re encouraged to use lowercase for your envvars so they don’t collide with the standard tools. > But in reali
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by shmerl 1y ago
Yes, good point. I use it all the time too. Plus fzf-lua in neovim which depends on it.
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by shmerl 1y ago
I do it at least for ripgrep.
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by shmerl 1y ago
How will AV2 based AVIF compare to PNG?
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by shmerl 1y ago
You can add AVIF support then.
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by shmerl 1y ago
They do. It must be some kind of bad tools that don't support AVIF still.
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by shmerl 1y ago
What tools? Imagemagick handles avif fine converting to and from it. Gimp as well. There is also basic avifenc.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Luddites can't stop progress. But they'll try to slow it down.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Which is superseded by AVIF anyway.
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by shmerl 1y ago
All of that is pretty moot and not something I care about much as long as it's better than JPEG. Let everyone support AVIF and stop this perpetual bikeshedding. AVIF already works in all browsers, all sites should support it.
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by shmerl 1y ago
AVIF adoption is still lagging behind unfortunately. Even GitHub and GitLab didn't enable it yet despite pending feature requests.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Wong wording may be, but the point of the post is correct. Mint just lags behind with Wayland support and in being up to date for handling recent hardware especially. The former is Mint's specific problem, while the latter is a general
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by shmerl 1y ago
Yeah, for sure always have latest kernel, Mesa and firmware if you are having any gaming issues. 6.12 is already old by now.
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by shmerl 1y ago
What DE? And that's with all the latest components as above? I wouldn't use Debian stable for gaming purposes, since it falls behind very quickly. Debian testing / unstable is a better idea, and even then you'd want to i
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by shmerl 1y ago
What kind of issues though with what GPU? I'm using Debian testing, it all works fine with AMD and KDE Plasma Wayland session. With AMD, always make sure to use latest kernel, Mesa and amdgpu firmware.
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by shmerl 1y ago
You probably used Nvidia and some outdated distro with a bad DE on top. Not something you should be using. Using X11 is DOA anyway, so you can figure out what was wrong in your case and use better options.
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by shmerl 1y ago
I'd say any rolling distro. Try Debian testing or unstable if you prefer Debian distros family (choose KDE during installation). Or try Arch. KDE also started making its own Arch based distro now: https://kde.org/linux&
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by shmerl 1y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, what you said is true. Mint has some WIP to support Wayland in Cinnamon, but it's way behind other DEs and I wouldn't recommend using it.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Agreed about switching to Linux. I don't agree on macOS though. Apple is nasty in its own way and has a ton of anti-user patterns no one should be dealing with. If you want to decide for yourself and not things being decided for you be
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by shmerl 1y ago
I wouldn't recommend Mint. Better use something with recent KDE Plasma and recent kernel and Mesa for best Wayland experience. Especially speaking of playing games, I periodically see newcomer Linux gamers hitting problems due to Mint
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by shmerl 1y ago
They can make AI use AI for them, and koolaid bosses should be happy.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Looking forward to Servo replacing embedded Chromium everywhere and getting rid of that pesky $HOME/.pki that Chromium project doesn't care to fix by using libnss correctly.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Looks like a Windows VM with extras. I'd prefer Wine approach.
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by shmerl 1y ago
What will happen if it's a bubble and they can't buy agreed amount? I worry more about impact on AMD than about OpenAI tanking.

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