Compiz and Wayfire:

Okay so funny story, I needed to spin up a non enterprise windows VM with defender disabled for testing and got to experience the horror of local group policy not actually applying the disable setting because Microsoft disabled the functionality without telling anyone.

And then I learned you can no longer disable defender on non domain joined systems without downloading a perma disable tool.

Otherwise group policy looks so cool until you run Bloodhound and realize you’ve created a security nuke lmao.

Thank God we have Linux

The window snapping introduced in vista/7 and the old start menu from vista/7.

Actually I might need to reduce that percentage lmao

Windows registry is an absolute horror show even without the GUI lmao.

At least on linux you will usually be greeted by a nice integrated GTK or Qt layout.

Windows is 40% archaic stuff from the 90s, 40% tirefire PWA/electron apps, and 20% of normal design that keeps them barely ahead of OSX.

Default zsh is just bash, you need to add all the fancy plugins to get it to do cool stuff

fish is for people who don’t want to spend the time setting it all up and to just get a shell that has most of the QoL fetaures builtin.

Kali, ParrotOS, and BlackArch are the B-52s flying overhead out of the frame

Surprisingly no, but I’m pretty sure he’s the reason lemmy.ml has a separate world news community lol.

For claiming GMOs are bred for glyphosate resistance, which is the real reason why USDA Organic products grew significantly in the market, not because consumers actually think Organic produce is “naturally” healthier.

But this was only enforced after I pissed off the mod in Political Memes and he went backwards through my comment history to find me in another community he mods to delete another comment lol.

Still a million times better than the reddit experience.

You were filthy rich if you had such a massive CRT in 1984

Wayland triple buffer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x0zFtsl2-po

Imagine paying anything for proton services.

This looks like it was made to justify those insane text editors with “GPU acceleration” as if text editing requires interop with Vulkan.

If you plan on building a proper pirate ship, a good place to start is https://trash-guides.info/.

Although I would highly recommend automating it with https://github.com/raydak-labs/configarr

Someone I personally knew almost gave up on Linux because their mint install would have screen tearing issues due to an outdated driver module and kernel, since Mint follows close to Ubuntu’s kernel releases which are slow.

Cutting edge and bleeding edge kernels is one of Linux’s biggest strengths because 99% of driver modules are in the kernel, so keeping it up to date will significantly reduce the chances of issues with your hardware, especially if its anything new.

You dont need to know the version, but knowing that your updates are based on cutting edge latest stable is what can save you from driver headaches.

“btw can you please install the latest nvidia drivers?”

“latest?”

switches back to Fedora

Me watching curl and wget fail on a multi request HTTP logic stupidity that requires you to submit a random useless header that only the browser will do automatically.

VLC sucks ass when you want to do any type of live transcoding or remuxing without setting up a video stream. Especially with multichannel audio:

This has been an issue ever since feature added, the maximum bitrate you can set is 512 kb/s on every codec, despite codecs that support more.

The bug thread for this was basically “stop complaining about our shit UI and use the CLI”

Much prefer Kodi for this purpose, and an ffmpeg based player for lightweight stuff.

This is the general sentiment I’ve been hearing, though surprisingly a lot of people belive that these games will eventually reach steam machine anyway because it seems stupid to them that it never happens.

I didn’t expect it, but a lot of Xbox players I know are considering saving up for the steam machine because it replaces their need for a console + PC for games, and they are aware that Xbox has been pretty open to putting their games on PC anyway. Some even considered Nintendo emulation which is defnitley something I didn’t expect to see from Xbox only players.

Halo Infinite and MCC run just fine on Linux. If they were comfortable letting their core IP on steam, it would be easy and probably beneficial for MSFT to do the same for CoD.

I think the main holdout will be Epic Games, simply because they want to be a competitor to steam and they seem to hate the idea of giving valve any leverage in the gaming industry.

Oh lol, guess they inflated its capabilities ¯_(ツ)_/¯

That’s why it’s called “federated” and nont “decentralized”

Freenet/Hyphanet is I think too slow for modern internet users. P2P networks have always struggled with solving the service lookup and access problem.

Even advancements like DHTs or cheat methods like trackers will still only get you so far compared to plain old client server DNS.