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  • Windows just plain doesn’t work, more or less.

    Anytime a game goes fullscreen, it would mess up my desktop. Sometimes the screen would just be stuck black or the display resolution wouldn’t revert properly with fullscreen. Heck, fullscreen was so broken that I avoided it as much as possible. Borderless windowed was the way to go, where it was available anyway (which is most newer games but more rare as you look at older titles).

    Actually, for fun, one of my friends was trying to install an old game from the era in a Windows 98 emulator to play it again because he couldn’t get it to boot on 11. He spent hours and ran into so many issues, eventually giving up because it had no audio, wouldn’t boot, etc. For fun, I tried the game’s installer on Manjaro (through Wine) and it installed and booted with minimal issues on the first try.

    Where you’ll have an easier time on Windows is pretty much exclusively with games that are hardcoded to only work on Windows, whether because of an anticheat or because of some kind of DRM. I don’t play any titles like that, and every game I’ve run on Linux Just Works™. I’d probably just boot into Windows for those titles if I played them, but otherwise, the experience on Linux is just so much better.


  • In one year, we’ll all be waiting for your own custom kernel and OS. We definitely need more competition in the space.

    They really should use some time exploring how they can use AI to steer society in a less harmful direction where rich psychopaths can’t set the direction for everyone else

    The current AI hype train is exactly what steers society in the direction opposite of what you seem to want. It gives companies an excuse to fire people without taking accountability, and it gives employers an excuse to try to cut wages.

    If it were as powerful as you seem to be implying, it would make software devs some of the most valuable workers on the planet. One dev would be capable of doing what entire teams were capable of before. Everyone would want to hire all the devs on the planet and churn out software at an accelerating pace to try to overtake all their competitors. Do you feel that software devs are, in fact, that valuable? Because I just see people getting fired, pay being cut, and workloads increasing to abusive levels.


  • I’m on Manjaro, and it actually does have two places for settings. The KDE settings menu is usually the place to go, but Manjaro’s settings menu is where you can do a few obscure things like installing different kernel versions.

    This might just be a Manjaro thing though as I haven’t seen this on other distros, and Control Panel does way more than it should really on Windows with how long the Settings app has been around.



  • Over confident devs who can’t figure out the delta between entire companies replacing humans

    They’re firing humans. “Replacing” implies something else is doing their jobs.

    a force amplifier that’ll turn devs into architecture/operators outside a small niche of actual hardcore coders.

    Is this “force amplifier” in the room with us right now?

    Year of the Linux desktop any day now.

    “Year of the Linux desktop” is a meme. Nobody cares if someone uses Linux, Mac, or Windows. All anyone wants is decent support for software on Linux as well. That being the case, it takes a special kind of masochism to use Windows these days.