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- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 6 days ago:
Reaper and Bitwig Studio are familiar apps for many audio producers.
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 6 days ago:
At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.
At the very least
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 6 days ago:
What you implied is that if a story originally came from a non-English source then it’s automatically suspect.
No, I didn’t. Learn to read. I stressed the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation as a “source”.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 6 days ago:
Professional alternatives exist.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 6 days ago:
Have you ever noticed how vendors who ship computers with Linux often do so at the same or greater cost than Windows?
Yeah… Even when going to Linux exclusively, it’s usually better to pick the Windows device.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 6 days ago:
As long as they don’t need nividia drivers.
Luckily NVidia is rather selling their GPUs to AI datacenters than to home consumers.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
Yeah, people need to get with the times. Flatpak exists since 10 years and smashed through the roof with Steam Deck (4 years).
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 1 week ago:
Feels free to post Mandarin language news in traditional script in the appropriate community. The language used in the info bar is the metric I’d suggest.
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 1 week ago:
[Update - 12/26/2025] - Taiwanese outlet, CNA, has received a statement from ASUS regarding the DRAM rumor and stated that it currently has no plans to invest in a memory wafer fab.
wccftech.com/asus-enter-dram-market-next-year-to-…
Lesson hopefully learned: Don’t link to the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation of a Persian language article. At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 1 week ago:
Didn’t realize Mattermost still existed.
- Comment on Chrizmuz 1 week ago:
6 Nintendo GameCube and a PS 2
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 1 week ago:
Or they keep the prices up because consumers got used to them.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 1 week ago:
A few weeks ago journalists said that complete systems will not be affected short term because OEMs order RAM and SSDs a year in advance.
So what is it?
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
I’m not defending Microsoft but to say that Stardock is sketchy has no base in reality.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
www.stardock.com/products/start11/
Costs money but works with only minor quirks when turning the dGPU off.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 weeks ago:
Less diversity isn’t good
Less proprietary crap is good. Free software is always preferable to fake diversity through proprietary Microsoft products.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 weeks ago:
What about WebKit? That makes 3 browser engines although it’s primarily used on Apple devices.
WebKit-GTK is fine, Ladybird and Servo also exist.
The vehement defense of a shitty, proprietary Microsoft browser here is astonishing.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 weeks ago:
I mean the choice between only two browser engines isn’t what I would call “free” though, especially since Firefox is also pulling more and more bullshit.
Gecko and Chromium are both fully free software. Old Edge isn’t.
He made a good overall point.
No. It was a very weak defense of proprietary software.
Just saying he is wrong doesn’t actually make him wrong.
Just saying that doesn’t make it wrong but the “argument” is wrong.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 weeks ago:
Doing so reduced the amount of diversity in rendering engines
It killed the last proprietary engine. It made the web more free.
That’s a loss for the Web as a whole.
You’re wrong.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 weeks ago:
Moving from a shitty proprietary web renderer to participate in Chromium development was an improvement.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 weeks ago:
What’s a phone bo?
More importantly: Why is there aa jizz stain at the o?
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 4 weeks ago:
No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 4 weeks ago:
damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.
“AI at its core” is a BS marketing phrase. Obviously there is no AI in the actual operating system core.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 5 weeks ago:
It’s not really enshittification when “Google reads your mail” has been the entire point since the launch of GMail. Relevant ads, grouping mails into topics, find spam, etc. has always been the selling point of GMail.
- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 1 month ago:
Google is developing a Linux runtime for Android, Valve are making an ARM version of Steam, so it could be usable but I don’t think it’ll light the world on fire.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 month ago:
Most sales happen on Steam
I literally already wrote that.
except those few rare examples.
Those “rare examples” combine to a massive revenue. In case of EGS and Fortnite, it’s very clear that EGS is installed and actively used on a giant number of PCs, so the installed base is there. It’s not a Steam monopoly if the user base signed up to and uses EGS for Fortnine and such.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 month ago:
And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.
The biggest PC games aren’t on Steam. Minecraft isn’t, Fortnite isn’t, Roblox isn’t. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.
