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- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 weeks ago:
MacOS has more than sandboxed… they are basically removing the ability of a user to do anything to their computers. I can’t fix my dad’s imac (I used to fix my own macs), they are impenetrable… They’ve more than “sandboxed” apps, they’re forcing all but previously established powerusers to take their dying overpriced lumps to the Apple store. This, they say, is “good for you.” I loved Apple for 8 or so years. Hate them to death now.
My 9-year-old quad-core running Mint MATE 22 boots up faster than both my dad’s 2-year old iMac and my 6-core PC running Win11. And I can tell you what every process running is doing… bonus.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 weeks ago:
again, if you think osx is free you are deeply, cripplingly ignorant of how Apple makes money.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 weeks ago:
What? No. Your “payment” to Apple continues as you use OSX.
You don’t need to pay “Linux” anything (though you can donate to distros and app devs if you’re a sweetie).
You don’t even need to pay for a computer. You can steal one or find one in the garbage. Apple hates recycling hardware, that’s why they sue 3rd party Apple repair and maintenance shops. I used OSX for a decade. They were cool for a little while, being somewhat novel for adopting a UNIX-like as their backbone, but that goodwill and logic is long dead.
I hate them as much as I hate Microsoft, perhaps even more, because not only have they abandoned the ideals they marketed in the 00’s, they are draconian in their enforcement of their control. Their planned obsolescence is absolutely criminal. They embezzle tens of billions of dollars overseas to avoid taxation. And Tim Cook now blows Donald Trump for breakfast.
To hell with Apple and their whole shitty thing.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
One thing you might notice is that flatpak defaults to “system” installs. Is your root system directory filling up? You probably want to start installing onto onto --user, as this will put things in /home where they belong and, by default, sandbox permissions away from root (that, too, can be easily changed).
I’ve been running Mint MATE for about 9 years. Love it to death.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
A sidestory to this is that Flatpak and AppImage have been miraculous boosts to Linux OS machines. After I figured out that ya gotta throw the --user flag into your flatpak installs so they don’t jam up your / tree, and also throwing flatpak override --user xyz.app onto a few apps that benefit from universal access, things have been find and dandy.
I continue to be happy with how awesome Linux has gotten just over the past 5 years.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 1 month ago:
“It’s janky. It’s charming. It works. It’s Copyparty.” ®
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Mint.
There’s a small army of Linux “snobs” that look down on it for recondite and mostly silly reasons. Mint is a great and user-friendly OS. The only thing I can say against it is that many of the binaries in the distro app manager are very out of date, but this hardly matters now because AppImage and Flatpaks are so on top of it and great.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
it’s sad, pathetic, and stupid that one has to download a potentially dangerous hack to do something so basic.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
yo compiz is the shit. You can do ANYTHING with it. It took me a while to figure out because where the hell is the manual, but I have my own custom thing going on and it’s brilliant.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
I think the fastest way for linux to spread are a) a state-sponsored (totally open source) product that sees a free and open OS as part of a commitment to a free and open society. or 2) one of these fuckhead billionaires drops $200M or so into a trust, rather like the Poetry Foundation, which has the singular commitment to create an OS for people and to support it indefinitely.
I don’t think the answer to any of society’s ills is to get Wallmart involved.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
congratulations, you now walk with the righteous.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
It doesn’t say how they got this number in the piece (unless I missed it), but it’s likely more than 5% if they are, say, counting the OS by user agent strings hitting a particular tracker. Linux distros use different browsers and they don’t report the OS in an accurate way all the time.
For a long time my UAS just said “Firefox, the version #, NT-based” or something like that, but now it reports Linux properly… I haven’t been paranoid enough to use a agent switcher lately.