visor841

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[–] visor841@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Steam is a massive worldwide market, and the Steam Deck isn't offered everywhere. Chinese users for example have to import it, so not many are used there.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's EAC, which is kernel level on Windows but not on Linux. I guess they wanted to go full kernel-level anti-cheat.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah this is a big part why I'm very skeptical of Signal. It feels a lot like Ubuntu's snap store, it's technically open but you can't really interact with the main corporate controlled ecosystem.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Did you read the article? It's talking primarily about how this could be really good for consumers.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If you're worried about the lack of Unix-style permissions and attributes in NTFS

I'm pretty sure Linux still uses Unix-style permissions in NTFS, which causes issues when Windows tries to use its own permission system on the same partition.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel like there's also the point that on Mac OS a lot of stuff "just works" because everything else just doesn't work at all. I have a number of things that just aren't going to work at all on Mac. Linux is obviously much more permissive, which leads to a lot more kinda working stuff that just wouldn't work at all on Mac.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The compositors are the ones doing a lot of the protocol development. They want to have WIP versions so they can see what issues crop up, they've been making versions all doing. Now, I agree that it is slowing things down, but it's more of just an additional thing that needs to get done, not so much a chicken and egg problem.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wine and Proton have actually put a ton of work into Wayland support, it's very far along. I wouldn't be surprised for Proton to have a native Wayland version soon.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Also XWayland has many limitations as X11 does.

If an app has only ever supported X11, then it probably doesn't care about those limitations (the apps that do care probably already have a Wayland version). And if an app doesn't care about the extra stuff Wayland has to offer, then there's not really a reason to add the extra support burden of Wayland. As long as they work fine in XWayland, I think a lot of apps won't switch over until X11 support starts dropping from their toolkit, and they'll just go straight to Wayland-only.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 68 points 3 months ago (9 children)

No shame in having to switch back after giving it a try and running into a lot of issues. Having to reboot a lot is definitely unusual, there's probably something wrong with your setup, but who knows where the issue is or how long it would take you to fix. Hopefully you can give it another try in a few years and those issues have been resolved.

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

From my own looking into this it looks like more of a suggestion than a request (for now at least), just a "this might be a good idea, we should look into it".

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The deleting most emails is very interesting. In my personal email, I've been saved quite a few times by finding emails multiple years old. But I can definitely see how things would be quite different in a work email, and I may consider trying that myself.

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