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In that spirit, if you have an EFI system, you don't need GRUB
You sort of do if you want to boot kernels on btrfs. Refind is an option, but not most of the other EFI bootloaders.
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Oh I didn't know that. Those versions aren't accessible for us plebs :)
If you're referring to Visual Studio, then Visual Studio Community[0] is free (for individuals and "non-enterprise organizations") and is equivalent to Visual Studio Professional. [0]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
Windows and its ecosystem have already become a telemetry monster; if you're fine with everything else, you ought to be fine with this. The linked Intel support page shows the simple instructions for opting out of the telemetry. Having said that, 2022 was already the year of the Linux desktop. Everything works. KDE gets better every week. Be the owner of your technology. Join us!
>> Everything works. I'm a video games developer. Neither PS5, Xbox nor Switch toolchains work under linux - not to mention that actual proper Visual Studio doesn't and that alone is worth staying on windows for. For playing games though - sure, Linux is already great. Steam Deck proves that by playing pretty much everything flawlessly.
Windows and its ecosystem have already become a telemetry monster; if you're fine with everything else, you ought to be fine with this. The linked Intel support page shows the simple instructions for opting out of the telemetry. Having said that, 2022 was already the year of the Linux desktop. Everything works. KDE gets better every week. Be the owner of your technology. Join us!
Companies have not yet woken up to the idea that implementing this kind of telemetry is effectively leaking their private business data to third parties (competitors even). Nobody's been so obviously burned by it yet that the lawsuits have started flying. Just imagine the kind of data (say) Microsoft is leaking to Google, via all those users running Chrome. How about all those AMD users who are running Intel/NVIDIA g…
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>> Everything works. I'm a video games developer. Neither PS5, Xbox nor Switch toolchains work under linux - not to mention that actual proper Visual Studio doesn't and that alone is worth staying on windows for. For playing games though - sure, Linux is already great. Steam Deck proves that by playing pretty much everything flawlessly.
>For playing games though - sure, Linux is already great. Steam Deck proves that by playing pretty much everything flawlessly. The caveat is that this is only true when applied to games on Steam . I play games that aren't on Steam, and I've not even bothered to see if they would run on Linux because it's just not worth my time. (No, I do not expect something in Japanese that communicates with DMM Game Player for user…
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>For playing games though - sure, Linux is already great. Steam Deck proves that by playing pretty much everything flawlessly. The caveat is that this is only true when applied to games on Steam . I play games that aren't on Steam, and I've not even bothered to see if they would run on Linux because it's just not worth my time. (No, I do not expect something in Japanese that communicates with DMM Game Player for user…
Exactly. I refuse to use Steam, so linux is a no go for me. I hate it so much when people equal games to steam.
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I think they must mean legacy visual studio, rather than VSCode. VSCode is of course very portable. It also seems to be Microsoft’s (successful) attempt to get everybody to use a reasonable Linux-style workfow. If you look at it as a text editor and terminal in a tiling window manager, it suddenly makes sense that it became so popular.
There is nothing legacy about Visual Studio. There is simply no equivalent of its debugging and profiling capabilities in C++ and C# especially in graphics / game development. No such equivalent exist in Unix world including macOS. They set the bar.
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You sort of do if you want to boot kernels on btrfs. Refind is an option, but not most of the other EFI bootloaders.
You put the kernel (built with efistub) directly onto the EFI partition - no boot loaded needed at all.
The boot UI for most modern UEFI-Firmwares is really primitive and they usually don't come with EFI shells.
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> To accomplish this, we would like your permission to collect, use, and combine information Oh man, they left a typo in there. Did anybody catch it? They use the word 'permission' when this is actually selected by default for all users who install their drivers. Hey, that's not how you ask for permission! I would love to see the look on their faces when they realize this mistake.
In general, Silicon Valley has a huge problem with / misunderstanding of things like "permission" and "consent." If computing was like dating, Silicon Valley would be a creepy guy in the nightclub constantly telling women: "We are now dating. Do you want to dance? [Yes] [Ask Again Later]"
Windows and its ecosystem have already become a telemetry monster; if you're fine with everything else, you ought to be fine with this. The linked Intel support page shows the simple instructions for opting out of the telemetry. Having said that, 2022 was already the year of the Linux desktop. Everything works. KDE gets better every week. Be the owner of your technology. Join us!
The worst thing about linux is that it is made an maintained by people who like linux. I would love more than anything to see a paid fork of linux whose goal was to make a power user friendly user OS that never needs to pull up a CLI. People will come out of woodwork here to suggest whatever shitty half-assed CLI wrapper enviroment. No. No. No. They suck. I have been using them on and off for 20 years. Including righ…
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A CLI is the pinacle of power user friendlyness.