Some desktops connect to servers on occasion, it was pretty big back in the 80s

You can read more about it here

Its like locks on a car, sure someone can still break the windows - and if still worried you should just use an armoured car.

But for most of us locks are more than enough to keep people out our shit

Doesnt even give access to the camera subsystem’s embedded flash memory, essentially useless

/s?

Nixos because… I feel like were already loud enough of a crowd everyone should know its benefits lol

GCVE is more confusing if anything

Sounds like flatpaks/appimages with extra steps

Includes all dependencies? ✔️

A single file? ✔️

Independent of host libraries? ✔️

Limited learning curve? ✔️

Not sure how appimages handle it internally, but with flatpaks you can even be storage efficient with layers, whereas 100s of static binaries could contain an awful lot of duplicates.

Can’t see why you dislike appimages, sure not 100% size efficient - but for one off binaries youre probably not spending much time optimizing anyways.

Not that you couldnt make an appimage 2.0 solving all your issues, but we’d just be back to that package manager xkcd all over again

Kinda feel like they said something like

“I think everyone should have food”

And you responded with

“you want a Walmart on every block in the world?? do you even know the environmental impact that will have? Poor people are really to blame anyways because they’re not voting with their wallets enough”

How an asshole can mess something up is entirely independent of how a proper implementation might not mess up

Edit to say: I think this is what they meant in their comment about (American) capitalist propaganda; You dont realise your implicit bias enforcing that it must be a capitalist implementing it without any external input.

To the rest of the world he’s just an infamous citizen in a dying country, who would never realistically have 1/10th the pull needed to enforce that BS internationally; by starting the conversation at best he’d speed up external implementations.

If you’ve ever used Xbox, its like quick resume

(From my limited understanding)

Source: 🤷‍♂️ trust me bro

Dunno what else to tell ya cause they are moving to open source, but hey googles free if you want to find out for yourself

4% of US alone is 12 million people.

If even 25% of them decide hardware purchases based on driver support, 3 million sales isn’t ignorable.

(The number of PCs sold globally per year is similarly 300,000,000, so even then theyd lose out on 12 million potential sales YEARLY)

The market is also pretty shit post-covid, so I’m sure every hardware company is dying for a way to boost sales metrics.

With the linux server market share and recent ai boom, theyd have to be more than just blind deaf and dumb to not release linux drivers.

Maybe this was true back in like the early 2000’s?

I hear this a lot but in production I still see xp/win 7 era PC’s all the time due to comparability issues (half the time still online too :/ )

Maybe its just absurd support for big spenders like the US military?

Seems like the small companies are mostly getting burned by gambling on MS

Any reason you dont just use bcachefs?

Supports various write-cache configurations, and seperate forgrouns/background replications (a la raid 1).

I think its even more stable than raid because it’ll auto-balance when a disk fails, but I’m not as certain in that

No balls go tell your employer Hitler was right and you personally fucked a dog last night.

Trust me bro these words won’t hurt you, their kinetic energy is like in the milijoules at worst.

Til a judge ‘interprets’ that as being specifically about a company named TiVo or invalidates it in the supreme court.

Yk back in my day it was even unthinkable to have a president decide your gender for you, the precedent already being created is insane.

They’re american, they’d just pick one rich guy to ‘own’ all Foss projects and make it freenium within a year

Only sort of, quoting this article

much of the important graphics code isn’t actually open-source. Nvidia appears to have moved much of its proprietary code into the firmware on its graphics cards, which the open-source code interacts with.

So while they did ‘open source’ their drivers, theyre also not accepting contributions that aren’t in house. The codebase is too locked down to benefit other projects like NVK, as a true FOSS project would be.

Bit of misinformation on this thread, but generally the only thing that can actually get in the way of someone dedicated enough will be compatibility and security systems.

You probably won’t have any luck getting nvidia drivers on android for example, nor take the time to back port those drivers to an outdated kernel.

I suppose you could also have an OS that takes most your system resources for non-gaming tasks, making games unplayable. Something like nixos is non-gaming centric and could reasonably be more optimised than bazzite, less background processes making games actually run better on it.