Yeah as if Nvidia never benefited a lot from open-source. So Vulkan isn't open-source, who knows? Maybe go back to the days of fragmentation, kill portability.

You're acting as if Nvidia, Microsoft, and Valve are related. Good luck to Microsoft making a new proprietary API besides DirectX, an already proprietary API. It would only show they haven't learned anything from UWP. And Valve has always contributed to open-source because they don't want to depend on Windows. You don't recognize Steam Deck and SteamOS 3? You haven't been here long enough to recognize LunarG.

If Nvidia decides to be hostile or selfish, nobody cares? Can't we be wary of being exploited by companies?

Just say when you're shilling, don't spread misinformation with your own made up scenarios.

Yeah! Let's not care about the possibilities where companies can exploit people's free work and let them do as they wish. Better yet, divide the gaming community again, bring back console gaming with exclusive games, discontinue Vulkan/OpenCL because nobody should care about the open-source just so we can recognize the "goodness of the hearts" of the executives, not the individuals that actually do the work regardless of them being under that same company or not. Let's software development a living hell. Let's forget preserving games, or even making games in the first place.

Or maybe be careful what you wish for. Nobody wishes for fragmentation, that's why maybe...stop making shit proprietary or patent shit in the first place so that you don't have to maintain a proprietary software in the first place?

Well, gaming as a whole is likely just a blip to Nvidia nowadays. It doesn't make them money anymore like it used to, data center is where most of the money flows in. It's just that we'll buy anything Nvidia sells so we're basically guinea pigs for their public beta testing.

selection process because it wasn't included in the "best linux distros 2023" search result

i just don't do distrohopping, it's a pointless venture imo. started with arch linux as my main desktop, never went back.

tried some things occasionally, but i already sunk the time learning all sorts of things that may not even exist in other distros, configuring my system and the DE (and other things like zsh and vim setup), so it's just a waste of time honestly.

i'm thinking of using NixOS instead of Debian (what i used previously) for my upcoming server project though.

Under US jurisdiction, yeah. Could be slightly more difficult depending on the country, LEGAT can't conduct unilateral operations so they'll have to cooperate with foreign authorities. These assholes can get away with exploiting jurisdictional boundaries. Hopefully they will be caught, but oh well.

Just because some women do doesn't mean you should mirror it, even more so when you are a public figure whose responsibility is to be a role model to others.

Boy Alfie downvoted a man for speaking facts 🗣️

But do they have a varying degrees of suck?

Obviously. That's literally my point.

I believe my workflow is more efficient because it's just frictionless to me. Everything makes sense and is intuitive without the need of a guide (like the GUI), if it isn't then you can change it or work around it much easier, if it doesn't exist then you can DIY. Sure it's more advanced this way, but not time-consuming when you have the knowhow.

That's why Windows isn't particularly suited for me. The same concept doesn't exist in Windows, you're fundamentally stuck with whatever Microsoft decides to be part of Windows, their proprietary software and their support for plugins or lack thereof (Vim doesn't even work well on Visual Studio), or even their open-source projects like Powertoys. Functionality used for a more efficient workflow sometimes has a proprietary solution, often paid, often enough making it yourself isn't feasible because Microsoft locked it down.

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As a result, I ended up with a setup that's more complicated for regular Windows users vs. regular Linux users where everything seems intuitive, sometimes because the OS was designed to force you to learn using the tools it gave you at the surface level.

My colleagues that use Windows are even surprised that I'm more used to navigating and multitasking at it than they do, where I usually know some little trick or shortcut that they don't use (which is pretty confusing for me when they're not even aware that something like it exists). Not necessarily saying I know more than an average enthusiast, nor I know more than the people mentioned above when it comes to their particular field of study or job. But whenever I pull off something, they always see it as magic and start integrating that to their workflow.

The best tool for the job, for someone who treats the OS like a full-stack devbox, has always been Linux. You don't need a mouse or navigation keys, but of course there's a learning curve. You don't need external applications, you can go as bare as a simple Neovim+LSP setup, ZSH with Vi keys. The operating system is your IDE. And you can always bring it with you.

I always bring my laptop on the go, usually you can't even fit a mouse in that bag. Why not use what the laptop already comes with? The laptop has very small buttons when it comes to navigational keys. Vim works best for this keyboard layout in this case.

Linux isn't necessarily the best of everything, and it never was supposed to be in the first place. I iterate that I often find everything in Linux to be less tedious. In fact, deploying with Windows Server containers are pretty annoying, though with the added benefit that it's a simple tickbox in the Server Manager to install the feature, but actually using them compared to say Docker...you get my point.

What you don't know doesn't hurt you, nor it should. Likely to apply to me as well with things that I'm not aware yet of. Never stopped anyone as you're free to use whatever you wish, what you feel is the most efficient for you.

Obviously, that's exactly my point to begin with.

I have what I believe is a more advanced workflow, no offense. You can't expect a proper Vim support on Visual Studio. But ev nthen it's not like Windows has been any easier for enthusiasts before Powertoys was a thing.

It's not impossible on Windows, I successfully configured Windows on my laptop to work the way I wanted it to be, and it's crazy it took Win11 for a proper terminal emulator (slightly more precisely, years later since Win10 anyway).

Of course, what you don't know can't hurt you, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I don't really care if there's a higher being, an afterlife, or otherwise.

I'm still scared of the idea of nihilism, but eventually I'll have to prepare myself and at least do something that makes my existence worthwhile.

DXVK definitely made all the unoptimized older games easier to run, compared to running them natively on Windows.

Never a day where a Razer product doesn't have an issue with something in particular.

I did and I'd still downvote, particularly because of the incorrect points contributing to the general quality of that opinion. You can have an opinion but it won't necessarily be correct or justified.

Not bad in my opinion.

Funny because it's what I consider an alternative to Premiere Pro, but not an open-source alternative though.

Literally this. Even though I never faced any of the issues both of you had, but I don't get why it's hard to use Windows.

Linux is meant to be difficult to setup for new users.

Windows is meant to be an asshole to setup for enthusiasts.

Want to use Windows? You need: WSL2, Powertoys, AltDrag, Scoop, and so on.

You want to install thousands of fonts inside hundreds of folders? You have to learn some obscure undocumented Powershell class to make a script that installs all those fonts for you system-wide (or even user scope for that matter).

You also need MSYS2 for stuff like GNU Make, GDB, etc. You can use Visual Studio, but have fun with that because you'll be pulling out hairs every once in a while.

Oh you want to process multiple files with regex? Definitely good luck with that.

It's funny that I find it easier to use Linux, and do everything that I used to do on Windows the same on Linux just as easily.

Edit: powertoys, not powertools. my bad

Fair, but I don't agree with the choices personally speaking.

Photoshop, sure. I've been in groups where you need it to open PSDs to collaborate.

Plex is up for debate. Jellyfin is not there yet, but it's already a viable alternative.

Steam is proprietary because it's a distribution platform for pay-to-play software, not sure why you'd want an open-source alternative.

Unraid, will never use it. Heck, can't see the need to use any NAS-specific operating systems over plain Linux. Yes, it takes a whole lot more to set it up, but it's just as worth as paying $130, or more if you live in a developing country.

Fences, just no. I've used them a long time before, sure they're really useful, but the best alternative is to just not depend on it. I'm faster at typing the name of the application or the folder I want to access, so I use KRunner. Sometimes the best organisation tool is to NOT use a particular organisation tool. If you really need one when dealing with large amounts of data, you can definitely use methods like Zettelkasten, think of extended attributes or metadata.

I honestly don't agree with this.

Photoshop, sure. I've been in groups where you need it to open PSDs to collaborate.

Plex is up for debate. Jellyfin is not there yet, but it's already a viable alternative.

Steam is proprietary because it's a distribution platform for pay-to-play software, not sure why you'd want an open-source alternative.

Unraid, will never use it. Heck, can't see the need to use any NAS-specific operating systems over plain Linux. Yes, it takes a whole lot more to set it up, but it's just as worth as paying $130, or more if you live in a developing country.

Fences, just no. I've used them a long time before, sure they're really useful, but the best alternative is to just not depend on it. I'm faster at typing the name of the application or the folder I want to access, so I use KRunner. The best organization tool is to NOT use any organization tool