They have an option in their own pamac GUI to enable the AUR. IMO if they want to send the message that it will cause issues and it shouldn't be used, they shouldn't make it so easy to enable. Or if they do want to make it that easy, display a clear disclaimer about the issues you can expect to run into if you try it.
teawrecks
joined 1 year ago
Welcome to the community! I think you can learn to like the terminal with time :). But more power to you if you can use Linux without ever touching the command line.
I do think the only real way to compete with the windows/mac UX is to never show a command line to someone who doesn't know what to do with it, and still remain operational. As for now, with most distros, if certain things fail to load you end up looking at a command line (not sure about Ubuntu or ChromeOS).
It's important to know that, just because your computer booted to a command line doesn't mean the whole system is hosed. It's likely just means a UI program failed to start for some reason and otherwise your system is working fine.
I have the same question. I remember a while back Linus went off on someone for using the term "woke communist", so that probably made the rounds in the trans community. Might be what they're referring to.
I'd prefer Linux not be tied to the politics of its creator. I don't expect Linus to be a perfect person any more than I expect Linux to be a perfect OS. But one of those can be fixed with a quick patch.
Ah, I didn't realize there was actually a piece of gnome software literally called "gnome software" lol. Not confusing at all.
Wanted to talk to people about it on the internet. Fuck me, I guess.
Every point you made is either patently false (isn't up to date, won't even work with gnome) or doesn't make any sense (installs the bare minimum, so stuff won't always work).
The only part we agree on is that arch isn't for everyone.
Man, talk about milking a niche topic for clicks.
Cool, good to know. I'd be interested to learn how they mitigate fragmentation, though. It's not clear to me how COW could mitigate the copy cost without fragmentation, but I'm certain people smarter than me have been thinking about the problem for my whole life. I know spinning disks have their own set of limitations, but even SSDs perform better on sequential reads over random reads, so it seems like the preference would still be to not split a file up too much.
Yeah, the only time proton can actually outperform windows is when it spots a fundamental performance error that the app has made, and is able to optimize it out, AND no windows driver does the same. This is comparing Linux+proton at its best vs windows+native at its worst.
What we really want to see is Linux+native at its best vs windows+native at its best. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of demanding games that natively support Linux.
Butterface?! That's my wife!
"Native" means "no platform specific runtime translation layers". An app built on SDL does the translation to the final rendering API calls at compile time. But a DX app running on Linux has to do jit translation to ogl/vk when running through wine, which is just overhead.