Naming my cat "dog" does not make it a dog. Nor does naming anarcho-socialism "anarchism" make it such.
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For some people, the risk of disclosure by violence is more a worry than the risk of disclosure by the clipboard.
You are more correct than you could ever possibly imagine.
> For the first time in the fifty-five years of my life I found out what it was like to feel racist, from the inside.
> I was able to notice that, when paying attention with the top of my brain, I could not notice any rational reason for me to even dislike these people, let alone feel disgusted and revolted by them. I began to analyze my revulsion as though it were a specimen on a laboratory slide
> The most important point is that black people in particular have never made me feel repelled in the way minority X does. I’ve had black girlfriends and might not implausibly have ended up married to one of them,
> my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies. My forebrain, meanwhile, was all like “What is up with you, hindbrain?” Apparently my human-recognition template needed some updating.
> The pressure on me eased a bit when I realized that what I was experiencing was a really severe case of Uncanny Valley reaction, and that more exposure to minority X might well stretch my template to the point where they didn’t seem so creepily repulsive any more.
So basically, you took him out of context, and selected choice quotes from your citation in order to make ESR look as bad as possible. You're an excellent propagandist. I'll be adding your nickname to the list of known trolls on HN. thanks.
[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 "Preventing Visceral Racism"
> For the first time in the fifty-five years of my life I found out what it was like to feel racist, from the inside.
> I was able to notice that, when paying attention with the top of my brain, I could not notice any rational reason for me to even dislike these people, let alone feel disgusted and revolted by them. I began to analyze my revulsion as though it were a specimen on a laboratory slide
> The most important point is that black people in particular have never made me feel repelled in the way minority X does. I’ve had black girlfriends and might not implausibly have ended up married to one of them,
> my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies. My forebrain, meanwhile, was all like “What is up with you, hindbrain?” Apparently my human-recognition template needed some updating.
> The pressure on me eased a bit when I realized that what I was experiencing was a really severe case of Uncanny Valley reaction, and that more exposure to minority X might well stretch my template to the point where they didn’t seem so creepily repulsive any more.
So basically, you took him out of context, and selected choice quotes from your citation in order to make ESR look as bad as possible. You're an excellent propagandist. I'll be adding your nickname to the list of known trolls on HN. thanks.
2) You're not exactly coming out of this looking like a saint, you know.
So a mac zealot with no FOSS tendencies, or any legit hacker cred, decides he wants to take over a jargon file he barely understands, and wants to update it with pointless additions?
Consider yourself overruled. ESR's still doing fine, thanks.
Also, I must have missed the meeting that nominated you as his replacement. Perhaps you could provide us with the meeting minutes?
Hmm. perhaps you'd like some reality:
1) Person who says they run it says "steam doesn't work on linux mint" 2) others come out and confirm that it does actually work on Mint. 3) you argue with person that makes original claim, and ignore that it actually does, in fact work. 4) When pointed out that LM does work with Steam, you reply that you don't follow the argument. 5) you then decide to expand on this false premise that something isn't working with a specific flavor of linux by comparing it to Android fragmentation, even though there isn't a case of fragmentation actually happening.
You still are unapologetic for your ad hominem, and decided to double-down on the fragmentation issue to move the goalposts.
To reiterate: Steam works on all reasonably-current flavors of Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Arch, Slackware, and even Gentoo.
You might also want to check out the Linux Musicians forum [2]. Most of your itches are probably already scratched by someone.
They've only been running all their servers on Linux PC's for upwards of 10 years now.
What's even more interesting is that in a different post, you said that AMD's open drivers were better than their closed ones, citing power management and less bugs as one of the benefits. Here you are doing a complete 180.
Go to Phoronix.com and show me the benchmarks where Nvidia's windows drivers consistently outperform the Linux ones.
As a reference, the fastest home consoles now(XBO and PS4) are based on an AMD Jaguar core (AMD's version of the Atom), with 8GB of Ram. You can build a (Faster) AMD A10-based machine with the same specs for less than $400 in Canada.
Which means we're left with your Ad Hominem, which you don't see.
A standard Kubuntu (or Chakra) install on any Intel/AMD PC made before June will likely work without hiccups or missing hardware. Most distributions include an app to specifically detect/install proprietary drivers (Ubuntu uses Jockey). A browsing of Phoronix.com will provide you with benchmarks showing the NVIDIA/AMD/Intel drivers running neck-and-neck with Windows. But hey, let's not let the truth get in the way of your FUD.