He really wasn’t at first, and it was extremely clear that he allowed it in as an olive branch to the Rust community. A “let’s see if I’m wrong by giving it a chance” moment.

I think my biggest gripe with the Culture of Rust is that they keep trying to force it into the Linux kernel and utilities, but even worse than that, they keep trying to replace things WITH DIFFERENT LICENSES. Ones with less system owner protections. Worse ones.

No but I could see SteamOS taking this crown in the long run

Let’s compare against msrp please.

Or they could have included them with the controller at-cost instead of making us pay $15 to $30 (the official battery packs are $30) PER CONTROLLER - many of us have more than one.

Same!

They still support the original steam controller and the steam link though.

Why would you call closed source client apps “open”?

Its not better per se compared to other Linuxes for gaming, just pre-configured to take a lot of the basic setup work out of it for you.

No, it doesn’t.

Yup. Its not the default anymore (and for good reason), but it is still supported for now. This is a pretty straightforward solution to the problem.

Both are really good but it depends on your hardware setup and your goals.

Do you have multiple monitors of different resolution and DPI mixes with a primary monitor thats 1440p or 4k at 90 to 144hz and/or variable refresh rate and older/cheaper side monitors that are 1080p 60hz? Wayland is going to be your best friend.

Do you have a single monitor setup (or identical monitors) that you primarily program on or do system admin work that you need remote desktop from? X11 is gonna be your go-to (for the foreseeable future).

Do you want to try exotic window managers like a sliding window manager? Wayland is the way to go.

Wacom tablet? Wayland is working on it but its not quite there yet so X11 for you artists. This also lets you keep using color profiles until Wayland gets that implemented too (my bets are on Plasma getting it first).

And so on.

Do note though that MeshCore is proprietary and has a licensing cost to unlock all of its features whereas Meshtastic is open source and free as in freedom.

It really isn’t unfortunate, though.

Probably best to skip it if you can’t stomach that sort of thing, but if you can handle the fucked up bits, its a very well written short story.

I mean, you can drain someone else’s bank account via the internet.

Ive already seen it. I forget the game but there was a recent one that had a steam deck allow profile but blocked Linux outright.

It dropped after the China market opened up. We are climbing back up again.

Your point was addressed in the thing they said immediately after the part you quoted

I do both. At home I do what you’re describing for Linux but at work I do sysadmin work.

The stuff that winds up mattering on the Windows side tends to be a lot more social and resource based than it is hyper technical and digging in the weeds. If vendor software sucks, you debug it by yelling at the vendor to stop sucking (in the nicest way you can muster). You’ll need to document expected vs actual behavior but most of them will hop to and provide a fix fairly quickly. The rest is just making sure you have correct configurations and a proper environment set up (including security and such). Easier said than done of course.