lemmyvore

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lemmyvore, (edited )

I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years and I don’t get it either. I don’t know why a vocal minority get so fixated on it. It’s not like it’s the only manufacturer with proprietary drivers. As long as the drivers work and are easy to install I don’t see a problem.

I’ve used ATI/AMD cards equally over the years and I’ve always ended up having more problems overall with them than with Nvidia cards & drivers. If I were inclined to generalize I could say that open source drivers are apparently lower quality, right? 🙂

But that would be just as silly as the other way around. I don’t think that open or closed drivers, in itself, automatically says anything about quality.

If closed source drivers really were a problem then Nvidia wouldn’t be used by 80% of Linux gamers.

lemmyvore, (edited )

Counterpoint: I don’t think any Linux DE will ever see mainstream adoption.

It has nothing to do with how good they are. It’s not related to software support either. They could support every piece of software ever made; Linux supports 90% of games for Windows and emulators for dozens of other platforms and it still hasn’t attracted more than like 2% of gamers.

It’s related to what OP said: to gain mass adoption you need to put up with a lot of bullshit. It takes a company with some financial gain to do that, and paid developers. Volunteer contributors will eventually say “screw this” or go mental like Torvalds.

There’s no company that can do this. They tried and failed, because Microsoft. Apple and Google had to create their own platforms from scratch to get away from it.

lemmyvore,

With other init systems you don’t have to write any custom config files. You just have to start docker; it already has container maintenance built-in.

I’ll never understand why they had to complicate it and require every container to also have a unit of explicit management.

lemmyvore,

Screen recording/screen sharing and keyboard/window automation are the big ones missing for me.

lemmyvore,

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