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More importantly, which language(s) and UI toolkit are you using for your Linux app?

Yet another GTK4/libadwaita, no thank you. I mean, if you're going to use Rust and vibe code thing, why not use a more sensible, Rust-native UI like egui?

> GTK4 & libadwaita

Eew, no thank you.

That looks bloody amazing. Would love to see this ported to PC, maybe even as a DE for Linux.

Since you were vibe coding the thing and using Rust, why not choose a more sensible UI toolkit like egui? GTK4/libadwaita sucks.

This is no doubt cool, but I'd much rather see these efforts directed towards patching the anticheat system so that Linux users can play the game online again.

Or just make a patched exe/launcher and build a server client, so that we can skip Rockstar's servers completely and play on private servers.

This one is probably worse: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kde-advises-extr...

Affinity works fine on Linux using this: https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer

Yes, even hardware acceleration works.

I have a Winforms GUI (.NET), how would it run that in Chrome?

This is cool, but you know what would be cooler? DOS, re-implemented as a UEFI shell, preferably with MS-DOS binary compatibility.

We're a small city so not sure how effective it would be for you, but https://theimage04.com/ was pretty revolutionary among the music circles here. Most people I spoke to loved the old-school newspaper classifieds vibe, and that there's no Web 2.0 bs.

You could do something similar and then print out physical copies of it and hand over a few to local music venues, cafes, pubs etc to spread the word.

That's cool, but the real question is, why aren't you using Hipfire[1] or HaloPFX[2]? Both are far superior to llama.cpp in terms of performance, for Strix Halo.

[1] https://github.com/warpfront/hipfire

[2] https://github.com/julianmb/halofpx

Maybe we should just call them SLMs instead of LLMs...

Too bad that the OS isn't designed to be repaired. It would've been nice if they could partner up with postmarketOS or similar and ship a proper Linux distro, so we're free to customise/build/update/replace parts of the OS.

Ubuntu isn't suitable for gaming... or anything at all. It's only really good for corporations because their offer paid support if you get Pro.

Instead, I'd recommend switching to something more optimised for gaming, like Bazzite or Nobara. Both work fine with nVidia cards.

But I also recommend trying a different Proton, like Proton Experimental or Proton-GE, as they often get compatibility updates before mainstream Proton.

That bit about openzim was ironic - that text was linked to this page: https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM - which is protected by Anubis, which doesn't work with many of the simpler browsers that openzim users typically use...

I'm all for blocking hostile scrapers and bots, but surely there's got to be a better solution than the likes of Anubis.

I'm curious if you've looked at a fundamentally different solution - namely, mklinux[1]? You not only skip the entire KVM/Firecracker VMM/Kata Shim/Guest Linux/Kata Agent stack which achieves your goal of reducing the attack surface, using mklinux also mitigated entire classes of vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows/out-of-bounds I/O in the virtio stack, speculative execution side-channels, SLAT bugs etc.

[1] https://multikernel.io/technology.html

Consumers also use and benefit from those features, even if they're not directly aware of it. For instance, my mom, a non-nerd who lives overseas, uses an immutable and atomic distro, which has the benefit of never breaking. Since she lives far away, it is important that her PC has that sort of stability, especially since she uses it to edit and submit important documents and emails, and ocassionally print and scan stuff. The features found in the filesystem (btrfs) further contributes to this guarantee - such as CoW, which gives her distro the ability to take instant atomic snapshots of the drive and boot from them via the boot menu; data and metadata checksumming which detects silent corruption; self healing via background scrub etc.

Her PC is also 13+ years old (an old Dell Optiplex 9020), which is unsuitable for running any supported versions of Windows. The high -performance, efficient and low-memory-usage nature of Linux makes it possible for her to complete productivity tasks even on such old hardware.

There are also non-nerds benefiting from Linux on low-end gaming devices such as the Steam Deck, or the countless number of emulators such as the Anbernic RG35XX Series, Miyoo Mini etc. Linux is the reason that such humble hardware is feasible for gaming.

Yes, indeed AOSP is trivial to hard fork and maintain independently of Google, which is why so many maintained hard forks of AOSP exists... right, right? Thank for the input, world's most brilliant coder.

The future is an inappropriate OS which spies on you and harvests your data, gets more and more locked down with every release restricting user freedom, and prioritises corporate interests over end user interest, yep yep yep.

Yes, I'm sure the billions of people will read the advice of a random commentor on a niche site and throw away all their handsets running a "very mature OS" and cause a crisis. </s>

I disagree. Linux (especially a top-notch distro like CachyOS or Aurora) is quantitatively and qualitatively superior to Windows in several aspects (performance, filesystem features, workload-specific kernel tuning, DE customisation etc). Several benchmarks out there that can show you the performance edge Linux has over Windows. Plus there are several features completely missing from Windows, like atomic updates, immutability, not to mention all the cool features found in filesystems like btrfs. Of course, Windows has some benefits too, but making a sweeping blank statement like "All FOSS consumer operating systems suck" is very egregious and insulting to the all volunteers around the world, who continue to work tirelessly to make FOSS better every single day.

Plenty. The ones you want to donate to are postmarketOS, Alpine Linux (the distro postmarketOS is based on) and Plasma Mobile (the main DE used by postmarketOS and other distros like Mobian).

In terms of usability, SailfishOS is the most usable, but it has some proprietary components and is commercially backed by Jolla, so there's no need to donate to them. I do encourage you to buy their devices if you can though. Speaking of devices, Furilabs and Volla also make practical, decent spec Linux phones (based on Debian and Ubuntu Touch), so they're worth checking out as well.

Agreed. Linux is the future, fk Android. GrapheneOS should stop wasting their efforts on Android, when they could've contributed towards PostmarketOS or similar, or even made their own distro. Working on Android is a complete and utter waste of time and effort.

> Every single time one of these new "minimal", "dumb", "lightweight" phones comes up today it's just marketing wrapped around a kneecapped Android device.

Except the Commodore Callback[1], which is based on Linux (SailfishOS). It's pretty minimal and should meet your requirements, in theory.

[1] https://commodore.net/callback/

I thought you were joking, but then I checked the code... holy shit, it is real.

Surely the author's gotta be trolling, right?

> mainstream apps (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop) then Linux is completely off the table

Not at all. First of all, the vast majority of people who use the Office suite use only basic features, for whom, LibreOffice or OnlyOffice are more than capable replacements. Second, classic versioned releases of MS Office (eg Office 2016, 2019 etc) also mostly work fine under stock Wine. Third, now even M365 versions of Office also have started to work via Bottles[1], so advanced users who need it can still install it on Linux if none of the alternatives suit them.

As for Photoshop, it's a similar situation to the above. Vast majority of the users don't even use all the fancy features of Photoshop, so GIMP (with optionally, the PhotoGIMP[2] mod), Krita and Photopea can already satisfy most needs. Advanced users can use alternatives like Affinity, which actually works really well under Linux[3]. Also keep in mind that Affinity is also becoming an increasingly de-facto option for even people on other platforms, as people are fed up with Adobe's shenanigans and are leaving in droves. Finally, if for some reason you still really need Photoshop, you can either run the classic versions just fine under stock Wine (up to CS6-ish, maybe newer) or even the latest CC versions via thirdparty script[4].

[1] https://itsfoss.com/news/bottles-microsoft-365-early-look/

[2] https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

[3] https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer

[4] https://github.com/bpawnzZ/photoshopCClinux-lightroom

Not a fan of the new look, feels a bit too Ubuntu-y/GNOME-y for my liking. I prefer the classic look, it's functional and arguably more user-friendly - like the categorisation of apps in the launcher, which helps keeps apps organised and easy to discover for new users (yes I'm aware the new launcher has a menu category toggle, but this is disabled by default). There's also no reason for a gigantic icon-based launcher that fills up the entire screen, unless the display is a touchscreen. But then, there are far better touch-friendly UIs out there, so I don't get the point of this new launcher. Feels like change for the sake of change.

> Use AI tooling to flag cases where established patterns are being stretched beyond their original purpose.

Ironically, AI tooling is increasingly becoming the reason for breaking Windows every month. 1,186 CVEs were patched this Patch Tuesday, but it also broke a ton of things in the process, like domain trust, RDP, USB audio playback amongst several other issues.,

If you don't need it to be "instant" (can wait 15-20 minutes, can be even faster if you pick a lightweight version) then Windows in Docker is a pretty decent, free and local alternative.

https://github.com/dockur/windows