And THAT is the attitude that causes Linux to still not be ready for many people.

Unfortunately, a lot of those are super popular and there are still gamers that want to switch to Linux but can’t because of those games.

It’s scary how our corporate overlords watch all the distopian films and are like: Let’s turn that into a reality!

Imagine it becomes easier to run Windows x86 programs on Linux, than on Windows. And I won’t be surprised at all if performance is better.

Imagine if THAT becomes Linux’ killer feature.

A more lightweight system without the crazy system requirements, certain systems more stable and easier to get into for gaming, no ads and no spyware out of the box, no extra cruft nobody needs out of the box, and better support for x86 emulation on ARM.

Now THAT is a checklist to getting people interested.

There is also the free of charge aspect, but I’m not sure how appealing that would be, with Windows being bundled in.

Anything else I missed, feel free to let me know.

I feel bad for not hearing about it until now. This looks and sounds amazing. Too bad it was killed by stripe and tight budgets.

Employees are getting so expensive, they’re replaced with robot mushrooms? Didn’t see that on my 2024 bingo card.

But it will happen, or at least be attempted if the technology gets there. You just wait for it.

I don’t remember this one, but it gives me strong “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” vibes. Am I right?

TLDR: HMD, the company behind modern Nokia phones, is making repairable devices, but software support is only 3 years, so if you buy it 1 year later on sale, and the phone screen breaks in a year or so, it will have less than a year left of security updates. The issue is that the bootloader can’t be easily unlocked either, so no Custom ROMs for you. You’re stuck with 3 years of support.

Fairphone do it right cuz they do software support properly as well.

10k for a company making millions annually is nothing, 1% or less. But split between some of these projects, especially the less appreciated or funded ones, can be life changing.

But you’re unfortunately right

Things like this make me wish I was a tech CEO. I’d totally be the guy ensuring we give back to projects if I was.

I’ve heard so many good things about Bazzite that when they release a COSMIC version (I’m a tiling WM user), I’m at least trying it out, and switching if I like it.

Exactly. That’s Windows’ secret. Give us a control center where it’s easy to control NetworkManager, Pipewire, systemd, and other parts of the OS, and give them not-so-technical names. That’s one of the keys to Windows’ success. Others involve EEE and anticompetitive practices but we don’t want Linux going that way now, do we?

It’s not that Windows isn’t complicated, it’s just that there’s a GUI for everything.

Somewhat misleading title. What’s actually happening is an ad company that worked with Big Tech had tried to pitch the idea to their Big Tech partners (claiming devices are already listening so why not use it for ads), at which point the Big companies tried to distance themselves from the ads people (in theory). In practice,

Google removed CMG from the Partners Program after a review.

With no mention of whether the removal was related to the evil practices described above.

Second O replaced by LD?

Never heard of Spiral, and I’ve heard of a lot of distros, so I’d steer clear of projects like it, that are new and/or niche, as there will be lower reliability and support available. Aurora is also pretty new, but it (and Fedora Atomic, and uBlue in general) has a strong community, so I’m more likely to trust them.

PopOS and Linux Mint get a thumbs up from me.

They are wrong.

The sad truth. Enough said. Linux is still not there, as much as we’d like to pretend it is. And it’s especially not there for dumb users.

Ummm… last I checked your job as an org was to do XYZ with the aim of helping humanity improve, so… fuck you Altman and fuck your bullshit generator(s).

proceeds to quit the cesspool

So much potential there. If only the UI was more minimal, like Vivaldi or Qutebrowser, I’d switch immediately.

Fair enough. I basically gave you a large chunk of vim so it will feel super overwhelming. The trick is to do one command or combo at a time. For example, I started with dd. Then I added yanking. Then I added visual mode. Then I added “o” (which I think I forgot to mention: o creates a newline under the current one and puts you in insert mode. Capital O does the same but above the current line). The real trick is going little by little. And to be honest, there are some commands I still rarely use or forget to mention. I’ve never used f instead of t. And in terms of forgetting to mention, there’s the x command which deletes the single character under the cursor rn.

Also, I’m sure someone will find this list helpful, so on top of this, I’ll also add this video (and hope that Piped bot will appear): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlrxE21l_k

It contains some things I haven’t mentioned.

As for learning all this, I’m repeating myself for the third time. Do it little by little. And when a command is already a thing you do almost without thinking about it, you’re ready to add more.

I’m mentally checking out

Why? dw is delete word, c5b change 5 words backwards, and those are the most complicated commands you’ll ever get to use, unless you start adding cuatom keybinds.

But I digress. If you don’t want to learn it, it’s fine.