Have you seen https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

ARM isn’t plug-and-play like x86 (n.b. it could be, but no one does it outside of servers)

You have to write a big JSON like file, called a DeviceTree, that describes exactly what is in the computer

Unless Apple decides to support Hackintoshes, their OS won’t have devicetrees for other devices.

You might be able to make your own and get the OS to read it, but it still has to be for a specific machine rather than generic like before

Depending on how you had it installed, Alpaca split support in the Flatpaks.

If you want AMD support, you need to install com.jeffser.Alpaca.Plugins.AMD

Microsoft seems to have deleted all their old blog posts around it (at least all the links to their responses 404 now), but…

In 2011, they were going to require it to be enabled for all products if they wanted to announce Windows 8 support.

After huge backlash, they changed it to allow motherboard companies to disable it for X years (since I can’t find the original, I can’t say the exact length of time)

But their original goal was for it to never be allowed to be disabled

postmarketos has builds for the 4/5, and Fairphone has already submitted devicetree files for the 6 to the mainline Linux kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/[email protected]/

I’m surprised at using ntfs-3g these days, but one major difference is that ntfs-3g uses FUSE in userspace.

Paragon has an in-kernel driver that is much faster, although I would expect your distro already includes it.

You can check with something like cat /boot/config-* | grep NTFS3_FS

I never really looked into what they were doing with KPTI.

Assuming it’s accurate, that first one is a much better technical description, even if it was intended to spell FUCKWIT

Ah. That makes sense, then. Thanks!

Any idea why that’s needed when Organic Maps doesn’t?

My understanding is this is an early fork?

To add about defaults from what other posters have shown…

I don’t remember if this was there on Debian 12, but at least when you’re on Debian 13 later this year, you can go to “Settings” in Discover and select if you want Debian or Flatpak to be the default source

Did that, did a lot of that. There wasn’t any doctor here who could shine my eyes. Not even for 20 menthol cools. Was anything you said true?

For unplayable, Rocket League had very good Linux and macos native builds. Epic required them to delete support for those operating systems as part of the acquisition of Psyonix

nvtop, while it sounds like it’s nvidia, is brand agnostic It actually stands for “neat videocard top”

It’ll show per process usage of memory and compute usage on most GPUs

When they buy publishers, they had them actively remove Linux support, such as Rocket League

Wow. This opengoal project is so cool!

You made me dig through old boxes to find my Jak games. I know what I’m doing this weekend :)

Yeah, their branding makes it harder to recover.

I don’t know how they’ll change their versioning in the future, so I just went with that.

If they don’t make an obvious split to when the extension system is stable, they may never get that new beloved version like KDE managed

If you just mean recently, one of the YouTubers with the most subscribers recently released a video about why he switched to Linux, and in it, he says he uses hyprland

May be affecting its popularity

GNOME 2 was different and easy to customize

GNOME is still in their KDE 4.x days where it needs time to mature.

KDE 3 was loved, KDE 4 made a ton of breaking changes, and was reviled. KDE 5/6 are now butter smooth and fixed all the issues from the 3 -> 4 transition

GNOME 4/5 will probably come back into the loved category if they start stabilizing the extension system some more

So, would your suspicion be that it’s causing them more failed boards in production?

I guess if it’s reducing returns, that might be something they’re accepting as a tradeoff?

I think you agreed with me?

I said the people who say Linux is so hard are the people that have learned so much about Windows that it’s ingrained in them. So when they try to switch, they get frustrated that it isn’t exactly the same