RagingToad

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So.. tl;dw?

This is just lazy, copy pasting a link to YouTube without context? Please tell me why you shared it, what was interesting about it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure exactly how many blobs I need to install Linux on my pc. I know there's proprietary stuff for my Nvidia card (optional) and possibly NIC, but most hardware is supported by the kernel these days?

Also, the play store. That's my biggest issue with Android. Everything depends on the store.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I was afraid someone was going to point out that AOSP exists, but it's not very useful.

The Android that everyone uses and talks about is very closed, because everything depends on the playstore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't have the answer to the best form of government, but communism doesn't work. That has already been proven?

And capitalism is actually pretty good, until it turns everything into ads and destroys the planet :-/ I wish there was something better.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (17 children)

So why do so many people seem to think Linux needs to become bigger on Desktop?

Personally I am not looking forward to the consequences: capitalism will make sure there will be something on Linux to make money off. They will try to conquer it, introduce walled gardens, stores you will have to pay for, by watching ads.

Android was Open Source once until Google decided to mainstream it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still hate the trend of creating video's of something that can be summarised in 2-3 lines of text. So I can ask, right?

And yes I am also a lazy mongrel. I think. What's a mongrel? I am lazy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I could not turn off mouse acceleration, which was a deal-breaker for me.

Actually not Wayland's fault if I remember correctly, something about libinput changing it's format, and my window manager wasn't compatible with it yet. After trying for several hours I found a bug report (can't find it right now). The Devs thought it was a minor issue, but for me it was huge so I decided I'll wait another year.

I must say, Wayland was smoooooth, didn't even experience X as slow until I tried Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm very critical of all the immutable distrubtions - as an old timer in tech I've seen so many things come and go. I'm also curious, ofcourse, and already tried out a VM with NixOS and everything seemed fine. But I'm going to wait it out before something like that becomes my main driver, I have a job to do (development, systems, stuff) and I cannot afford to say "sorry little to no progress today, my OS needs tinkering".

(Feel free to tell me I'm wrong :-) I love to tinker with new stuff).

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