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26 days agoLinux is going to have the first and probably on compliant vulkan implementation for Malus Silicon 😂
“Want to game on a Mac? Install Linux” Might just become reality this year.
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And proton mail still isn’t on f-droid 😴 Their focus is all over the place.
Corsica represent!
• What’s this? A software app store? Swell! I no longer need to download stuff off from dodgy sites or numbingly installing everything manually!
Ayyyy! Some recognition! Some people install linux and ask “where do I get apps from?”, you show them the “store” and they go “wow, that’s so complicated”. That’s when I question how they manage to survive in this digital world.
Keep on fraggin’!
Welcome to the fold, comrade!
If TuxedoComputers are working on it, there is faith that they’ll do a good job :)
Folks… is it happening? Is M$ giving people undeniable reasons to leave their shitcosystem?
I’ve said this multiple times in other comments, but what would be amazing is a
linux-installer.exethat shows the normal installer wizard with non-techie, beginner, and advanced options that allows installing linux from windows and booting right into it.The ultimate goal would be for the desktop environment to have a windows theme by default, have all the alternatives installed for previously installed software with desktop icons that look the same, and all files to be where they were previously. That way you could just say “go to https://windowsupgrade.com / https://linux.install and run the installer” to anybody non-technical and have them running linux in under an hour.
It should be so simple and unassuming that people don’t even realise they installed linux. If they message back “I ran it, but I’m still on windows”, that’s a success.
Oh no… what is rebasing in this context? This isn’t something related to git, I imagine?
What are “containerized apps”? Do they run in docker, podman, firejail, or bubblewrap? Also, what is their benefit?
The mention of datalog confuses me. I know it as a programming language. Does it mean something else for you? And what do you mean by “canvas”? I know about painting on a canvas and similar usages as well as the verb “canvassing” for soliciting for votes.
Maybe meta, but a linux installer for windows that works just like a normal installer on windows. You download the
.exe, double click it, it opens a wizard you can walk though, and by the end of the process, after it reboots, you’re in a linux distro.You know what, it could also be for linux, when I think about it… not everybody wants to write on a flash drive, reboot, run through installation, reboot.
The original idea is that non-technical users don’t know what an “OS” is. They might search for “windows alternative”, “windows replacement”, “linux installer” (if they heard of linux), and so on without knowing it’s an OS. If they could download something that installed “the linux app” without having to know about partitions, flashing a USB stick, MBR vs UEFI, distros, etc. it could make things much much easier.
- distro: which flavor of linux would you like (as stable as possible)? gaming (bazzite), productivity (ubuntu), bleeding edge (debian sid?), design, development, expert, security, …
- desktop environment: look and feel? more like MacOS (gnome), more like windows 7,8,10 (KDE), more like XP (LXDE, LXQt), Windows 98 feel (XfCE, …)
- probably other things, but maybe that’s all non-techies care about
The installer could have warnings for configurations e.g “you have an NVIDIA card $model, this has known issues with your display manager (Wayland), would you like to select automatic fix?”.
How are Gtk and Qt bloated?
LogSeq doesn’t do it for you?
I have no problem with them making money, far from it. My problem is with how. If their OS didn’t require a friggin subscription service, I’d buy their phone. What happens when I don’t pay for the next payment cycle? My phone gets shut off? The OS stops working? I’m only limited to making phone calls? Fuck that.
No idea dude, I got lost in the corporate.
By setting up Firefox as a standalone product organization
What does this even mean? Is Firefox going to be spun out into its own entity? This is such business speak…
Jolla says the phone will sell for €299 (including a 1-year subscription license for Sailfish OS)
Emphasis mine. Mate, just what are you doing? A subscription license of a mobile OS? Wat? They could be working together with Purism, Pine64, PostMarketOS and other software+hardware groups trying to make linux phones popular, but instead they are making some proprietary stuff in their corner. Is it really that difficult to work with other people or what’s going on?
Good meme, my friend 🤣
That was Mac when the M1 dropped, buy their problem is most of the stuff isn’t open source and one has to wait for the publisher to recompile on an ARM device. I expect a bunch of software to just be recompiled remotely or locally if you have such a distro (Gentoo, Arch, NixOS,…) and not even notice a difference.
A lot of stuff already has ARM builds because of the raspberry pi. Many docker images have ARM versions too.
This isn’t going to be the clusterfuck it was on Malus chips, except for maybe gaming because it’s in the same place. Asahi Linux is dealing with that right now too (donating can help).
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