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2 days agoThe “self-documenting” crowd is back in boys.
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My immediate thought was: why not NixOS as a base? Building KDE is such a nightmare that if they had to deal with it themselves on NixOS, it would help them clear up their dependencies. Right now it’s such a big mess of unnamed and implicit dependencies that exposing it to the team would also show them how to cut down on them.
My hope was also that if the KDE team were invest in a NixOS offshoot, that the OS would finally get proper GUIs or integrations into existing GUIs like Discover (why not Diskover?) Or the system settings and other config management.
But, to be fair, I could understand if they considered it, took one look at the documentation and noped out.
Legally, it doesn’t seem like he had much choice. The war has been going on for 2+ years now? I’m just surprised it took so long.
Regardless, this is probably going to have an impact on existing maintainers as it most likely isn’t clear who will act as replacements. I’ll bring it up again: 2% of the Linux Foundation’s money simply isn’t good enough for the Linux Kernel. It should be way way way more.
I said it a while ago and it’s getting much closer now: Linux will become the OS for people who want to game on a Mac. With all the work going into this, hopefully the devs are getting nice donations. They seem to be doing a better job than Malus at getting games to run.
Are what point do they stop pretending and just make it a pure linux platform with a different packaging format for any linux app to run in? They are doing it with CROS (or whatever the new Chrome on Linux OS is being called) and maybe it’s time to do it with Android. Running a VM just seems quite wasteful.
Oh great, thanks for the run down! That clears things up 👍
It would be great I’d this got to a point where one could “just” buy any GPU without worrying about CUDA. Really amazing project.
A pity they have to fight with Linux upstream to get any Rust in.
Still, what an amazing project to reverse engineer such a hostile platform and make it even better than the original OS. Well done.
I don’t understand the history here. I thought AMD said “don’t do it”. Now there’s funding from a third party to " just do it"?
There were murmurs that NVIDIA had told AMD to stop funding the project, probably under threat of a lawsuit. Is this project not in a similar position again?
Can’t imagine there is any. You need to learn three scripts to read Japanese fluently IINM. Katagana, Hirigana and something else… Probably someone who speaks Japanese can say.
Finally helpful hackers.
Maybe I should’ve posted this in linux memes, but I couldn’t find a picture to go along with it.
It could be a “clever” one that only installed linux if linux compatible applications were installed. That might lower the risk of being noticed.
You’re having a bad day and you’re letting off steam - understandable.
Just yesterday a friend said “Fucking Linux, every time I hit Esc it opens some program” only to be followed up by “lol, my mic was standing on the Ctrl key!”. Another friend was having issues with a bluetooth headset and thought for a while that it was linux. After much debugging, we found out the product was just defective and had tons of people complaining about connectivity issues on multiple platforms.
I’m not saying what you’re experiencing doesn’t exist, nor that it’s a fault of your own. Sometimes software just doesn’t work and it sucks. Sometimes it really is linux, sometimes it’s something else. Once you’ve calmed down and taken a breather, do upload a hardware probe. I’m guessing something’s fucky either with your driver or with the hardware itself.
Now imagine someone who’s less likely to open up a terminal using Linux. They won’t. They’ll sacrifice their privacy because they might have full time jobs in something not remotely tech related and just wanted to watch some YouTube and don’t want to spend the little free time they have fixing their own computer.
Yep, true. It’s been a long-standing issue with linux and the opensource community. Sometimes it’s due to lack of time, sometimes it’s due to lack of interest, but I can bet you that most of the time it’s due to lack of funding. Unfortunately, sometimes it due to elitism too (“I don’t want lusers using my software”). Hopefully someday we’ll get to a point where there’s a bigger focus on non-technical users.
We’ve come a long way though. Back in the 00’s we had to fiddle withifconfigand friggin’/etc/networkby hand. Things have gotten a lot better.
The hate is towards the community members that spam “arch btw” and telling new users to install arch.
3·2 months agoAh, yep. Indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Did M$ force more users to install windows 11 or something? What’s going on?
Btw, can somebody try and fit that curve to project when it hits 20% or something? That looks like an exponential function.
I like the prospect of more Linux hardware hitting the market with officially supported distros. The European Union should be funding this kind of stuff to supplant Microsoft within its borders.
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