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Then check Android repo, they are actively adding Fuchsia support.
What does it mean to add Fuschia support to the Android repo?
Means to enable Android userspace to run on top of Zirkon instead of Linux.
Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
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#202I wish that there would be one unified API for creating desktop programs on Linux. Right now it's somewhat coalesced on GTK/GNOME and Qt/KDE, though there are a number of others out there. I use Linux in a VM for very hobbyist level embedded development (think Arduino and the like). Driver problems are non-existent, all of the technical problems are non-issues in this environment. The problems that I see are all to d…
arduino IDE is written in java with Swing, it looks weird on every OS
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Laptops and 2-1 devices are the future desktop, and Linux has hardly won there. Android might run on Linux kernel, but that is a minor detail to userspace, and might be on the roadmap to be replaced by Zirkon. So no, it wasn't won anything besides server room.
> Laptops and 2-1 devices are the future desktop, and Linux has hardly won there. That is more due to how OEMs lock out non-windows OSes from running on their hardware. If users were given a choice, the "windows tax" alone would be enough to convince people to give linux a try, particularly in the low-end segment.
iOS and Android are non-windows OSes.
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I have found its super dependent on what hardware you get, Especially on laptops. I always pick hardware that works perfectly with linux and I am left with a very premium experience but when using linux on bad hardware like macbooks and broadcom wifi everything just doesn't work right.
Yep. Exactly this. If you get a laptop that a GNOME developer uses, chances are you’ll run into maybe two issues a year. But try to get GNOME to run on two 4K displays and an RTX. But here’s the thing. Linux has won. Desktop is a dying market. Linux is literally the most used operating system on phone and in the data center, which is where it counts. The DE has gotten much better transitively from all the work that’s…
> and in the data center, which is where it counts.
Do you have any stats on this? As far as I know Windows and Linux are very competitive on the server and depending on the analysis Windows comes ahead.
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#205Linux will never completely shed its heritage as a software development system for a machine hooked up to a teletype and a tape drive.
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I was surprised when I saw the newest Vega firmwares show up in my /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ with a kernel update only 6 days after the release of the last AMD GPU -- and on Manjaro, where updates are supposedly delayed a little. AMD touted "day one Linux support", which I don't know if they fulfilled, but they're certainly more committed to Linux than Nvidia. Unfortunately, Nvidia's so dominant (and rightly-so from a pr…
>Unfortunately, Nvidia's so dominant (and rightly-so from a price-per-performance unit standpoint). I'm not sure about the price-per-performance. I just bought a new system with a Vega 64, and if you take into consideration I could use FreeSync instead of paying an extra $200 for GSync in a monitor, it works out better.
Pascal and newer Nvidia cards support Freesync as of driver version 417.71.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. Exactly this. If you get a laptop that a GNOME developer uses, chances are you’ll run into maybe two issues a year. But try to get GNOME to run on two 4K displays and an RTX. But here’s the thing. Linux has won. Desktop is a dying market. Linux is literally the most used operating system on phone and in the data center, which is where it counts. The DE has gotten much better transitively from all the work that’s…
> and in the data center, which is where it counts. Do you have any stats on this? As far as I know Windows and Linux are very competitive on the server and depending on the analysis Windows comes ahead.
At least on Azure, Linux is leading as the top OS:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/
I assume this is true for most other cloud providers. But that doesn't take into account all the companies running racks of Windows servers in their basements.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. Exactly this. If you get a laptop that a GNOME developer uses, chances are you’ll run into maybe two issues a year. But try to get GNOME to run on two 4K displays and an RTX. But here’s the thing. Linux has won. Desktop is a dying market. Linux is literally the most used operating system on phone and in the data center, which is where it counts. The DE has gotten much better transitively from all the work that’s…
> If you really want to see Linux on the DE, boycott NVIDIA, or write them a letter. I was watching a video on youtube (can't find it now) about gaming on Linux, and it suggested to update the PPA and install the latest drivers. (this was after I refreshed my desktop to be Ubuntu Budgie) So I did that, installed latest NVidia Drivers. Tried out some steam games, and went to bed. Next day I couldn't boot into the desk…
That's just Nvidia. I had the same in Windows two years ago. Windows update automatically installed the latest Nvidia drivers, and after a reboot the screen was black after logging in. I assumed something got messed up (because Windows) so reinstalled Windows. It worked fine for a couple of hours, then I rebooted and had the same thing. Apparently that version of the driver was buggy with my hardware (GTX 1070), so I had to go into safe mode, downgrade and stop Windows automatically upgrading it.
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#209Linux will never completely shed its heritage as a software development system for a machine hooked up to a teletype and a tape drive.
NeXTSTEP and macOS did it pretty well.
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#210Steam's Linux support is fantastic these days. Almost everything works through their Wine fork.
And yet it hardly matters.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/19/linux-gaming-steam-valve...