The Long Road to Linux-Only
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One good use I know of that can only work by doing the switching in software is something that some voice communication software does. They will have 2 output device selections, one for call audio and one for ringer audio. Without that, you'd have to be sure to unplug your headset every time you get up from your computer.
I don't think that was their position?
"Switching the audio output should have been the default behavior, with a possible software command to revert it"
Having said that, I really, really like MATE, especially because it doesn't change much. It's a great desktop, IMHO, so I want it to stay that way.
Hardware/driver support is a bit flaky sometimes, but it's much better than it was 20 years ago. And having worked as a Windows admin for a couple of years, I know from first-hand experience Windows has its own share of problems, and personally, I am much happier with GNU/Linux.
In what way? I think it's pretty great and probably has the most interesting indie software choices. I always wonder why there's so little interesting software on the PC or Linux. Linux I get - the financial incentives are weak. But Windows has massive market share. Aside from games, I think it under performs when it comes to attracting developer talent.
> you are mostly worse off these days
I strongly disagree. All of the major operating systems are good enough these days. Each has their niche where they are the best choice. Different incentives drive the development of each. None is good at everything. I don't think it's necessarily a bad place to be.
> He dared believe not all of Epstein’s victims were unwilling
No, that's not what he said. He said they may have "presented as" willing, i.e. having been compelled by Epstein to pretend they were. He never said (AFAIK; at least not in this discussion) they actually were willing.
This is sad for two reasons:
1) RMS is probably better of without defenders that defend stuff he didn't even do; especially when they're as ranty as this.
2) Getting something this basic wrong here colours one's impression of the whole piece; how wrong is he on everything else he said? Which might have been interesting, since the subject matter in itself is stuff that could affect many of us.
Arch Linux.
Gnome 3 on Wayland, by the way, was the only one that got fractional scaling right in my tests, with perfectly crisp fonts, after fiddling with gsettings
Well, at least for Wayland apps (XWayland gets blurry, unfortunately). I've heard people say that KDE on Xorg is okay, but, it feels a bit blurry still (or maybe it's because it has another default fonts), specially in browsers.
This needs the kernel driver to get it right. It doesn't depend so much on what userspace audio server you use. In the end they all use ALSA.
It would have hedged against Microsoft in numerous ways: business dependence, forcing the hardware utilization Intel always accused Windows of ignoring, probably would have given them a functional beachhead in netbooks, mobile phones, and kept them abreast of other developments like ARM.
Google could have also done this for pennies to hedge Microsoft. IBM could have used it to push back into consumer hardware.
But the ship has sailed for Google with Android and ChromeOS. IBM is dying. Intel is the only one that is still has some market incentive.
The only toolkit around here that can do actual fractional scaling is Qt. Which is why all gtk based DEs like xfce are at a disadvantage.
Qt can do true arbitrary fractional scaling, which has other problems.
Are you sure? Maybe you mean on X11? I'm running Gnome on Wayland and with this setting:
> gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
I get not blurriness at all. I'm actually kind of paranoid about this issue so can you maybe point me to some online docs describing this issue?
The mutter setting you are mentioning just enables framebuffer scaling (ie bitmap, http://blog.3v1n0.net/informatica/linux/gnome-fractional-and... ). It will first ask gtk to render at the next integer scale then zoom out the resulting bitmap as necessary. This definitely results in blurriness that I do not see on windows (but you can see on macOS).
Compare Qt which does support true fractional scaling albeit as I was saying this leads to another significant problem https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt.html#HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPol... , but it does often result in a level of sharpness that cannot be matched, and it is trivial to see when you compare gtk with qt programs.
"There are only two genders, male/female, masculine/feminine, and only two pronouns, he/she, him/her, and the whole transgender, gender-fluid and other crappy “gender studies” (don’t blame Foucault, blame Judith Butler!) is pure postmodern propaganda initiated by people who should be anally raped by rabid monkeys!"
Yeah, you're an asshole and I no longer care about your article.
Yeah, you're an asshole and I no longer care about your article.
He does make some rather valid points with respect to the types of things you have to be willing to deal with if you choose to run Linux as your primary OS.