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Post by dataflow »

AndroidKitKat wrote: post #232
dataflow wrote: post #209

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> This is a practical setup. What if you need to check emails or take care of some other task mid-game?

This is what stops me from dual-booting. I don't enjoy Windows as much as the next person, but dual booting inevitably requires me to just duplicate logging into services and installing the same programs in both OSes, and then if I don't boot into one of the OSes for a while, I end up having to wait for updates (admittedly this is a much worse problem on Windows, but it's not not a problem for Linux) and any other th…

FWIW you have a partial solution here which is to run a VM that boots into the same system that you also dual boot into. It's still inconvenient, but not nearly as bad as having to terminate your app and reboot.

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Post by AlotOfReading »

999900000999 wrote: post #189
subjectsigma wrote: post #145

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Never post anything like this on HN, you will get a torrent of people A) trying to help, but not being very helpful B) telling you that you’re dumb C) telling you that you’re holding it wrong and that you need different software/hardware/preferences/etc. I have had tons of grief with NVIDIA cards that work stellar on Windows and the answer I always get talking to Linux folks is “LOL NVIDIA? You’re an idiot for buying…

I welcome a good conversation. Linux still isn't really ready for normal people who have other things to do. Arguably if it's within your budget and you just want your computer to work, buy a Mac. I make music and I don't want to fiddle with external drives so I'm basically stuck on Windows. My biggest issue with Macs is not being able to replace the SSD. Eventually all SSDs must fail. Might not be in 2 years, might…

"It just works" was always a marketing slogan for Apple, not an actual reality. It's certainly not appropriate for an OS where perfectly standard mice have frustrating, decades-old limitations like scroll direction being tied to the touchpad settings and forward/backyard buttons not working.

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Post by mzajc »

modzu wrote: post #266
RankingMember wrote: post #253

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The problem is that needing to direct a non-techie to do this to "fix" something that shouldn't be broken immediately makes it fail the "grandma test".

if someone cant click "install" they probably dont need a computer

I'd argue that blindly clicking "install", especially for extensions, is one of the reasons you shouldn't use a computer. It takes knowledge and effort to find or even invent solutions to problems.

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Post by modzu »

mzajc wrote: post #273
modzu wrote: post #266

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if someone cant click "install" they probably dont need a computer

I'd argue that blindly clicking "install", especially for extensions, is one of the reasons you shouldn't use a computer. It takes knowledge and effort to find or even invent solutions to problems.

thats my point. its a skill everyone should have or develop, like reading or writing

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Post by ubermonkey »

sdoering wrote: post #226
ubermonkey wrote: post #188

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>getting back into a workable state with my backups still took north of two days. It sounds like you're not very good at backups, then. I've only ever needed to do a real DR once, after we were robbed, but my Time Machine restore had my replacement Macbook up, runing, and with my application states in place within about 2 hours. >longer battery life As an Apple Silicon user, I doubt that. ;)

Ah yes, clearly a skill issue on my part. Thanks for that insight. I'm sure you've never had the pleasure of working in a corporate environment where IT has banned Time Machine, external drives, and replacement machines that actually match your storage capacity. Where "backup and restore" means navigating a Kafkaesque ticketing system on your phone to get someone in a different timezone to temporarily unlock your acc…

>I'm sure you've never had the pleasure of working in a corporate environment where IT has banned Time Machine, external drives, and replacement machines that actually match your storage capacity.

Well, I mean, it kinda DOES seem like my critique was on point. It just wasn't YOU that was bad at backups. It's that your IT department is worthless.

But either way, it's not an Apple problem.

>Apple Silicon

The power management on the Apple chips is really just amazing. It's like nothing I've ever used before. This level of performance AND insane battery life feels like a magic trick.

Oh, and the heat management is all part of it. I've had this machine for 4 years, and a few weeks ago it started making a disturbing noise I'd never heard before. "WTF????", I thought.

And then I realized what it was: I'd finally triggered the fans, which had never come on before. Turns out, rendering a shitload of high-def 360-degree video down into a flat file for Youtube sharing is computationally intense enough to trigger the M1's cooling system.

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Post by mp3geek »

hbn wrote: post #193

This is only tangentially related, but I just started using Brave (on Windows) in the past couple weeks in preparation for uBlock Origin being blocked in Chrome. Once I disabled all the weird service integrations/upsells it's been a decent enough experience. But the one bizarre thing I've found is typing in the YouTube comment box is laggy as hell for some reason. No other text field that I've found has this issue, j…

First I heard of this. do you have any other extensions installed? Is HW acceleration enabled?

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Post by 0xffff2 »

jksflkjl3jk3 wrote: post #77

I can never understand how anyone with an interest in tech hasn't switched to Linux for their personal desktop/laptop at some point in the last 20+ years. Why would you want to use a closed source OS controlled by a corporation with a past as checkered as Microsoft's?

Much to my annoyance, no one seems to have any interest in making a Linux compatible Quicken alternative. Until they do, I'll have to deal with Windows in some form. That's just my example though. The broader point is that there is a lot of Windows only software out there and each person only needs to have one piece of mission critical Windows only software in their life to make the friction of switching too high to bother with.

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Post by vorpalhex »

Nevermark wrote: post #200
vorpalhex wrote: post #121

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Having passed a toddler a steak knife, it's fine. There are even practice knifes for this purpose. (An infants hands are too small to hold a steak knife)

> Having passed a toddler a steak knife, it's fine. That time. With that child. I don't think "a steak knife per toddler" is a scalable value proposition.

I disagree. Most children (including toddlers) can be taught quickly to safely handle even "scary knives" and controlled exposure to real tools with real consequences is actually high value.

You can also give infants who are ready for food meat and other real foods, just keep in mind the lack of teeth.

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Post by tumsfestival »

nazgulsenpai wrote: post #197
hodgehog11 wrote: post #157

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It's multiplayer games with anti-cheat that are the ones not supported (with developers now having to go out of their way to turn OFF support for Linux); everything else works fine. If you're only into singleplayer (like me), games often run better on Linux.

To expand on this and provide some examples, I've recently played Wuthering Waves, Tower of Fantasy, The First Descendant, Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert, Lost Ark, Throne & Liberty, probably others I'm forgetting, all of which contain anti-cheat of some variety and all on Linux. There are some that don't support Linux and likely never will like Valorant or Call of Duty, and even fewer that dropped Linux suppor…

Mostly mobile ported gacha and Korean MMOs. It's good that it runs on Linux for you, but most people don't play these games. Most people are interested exactly in the ones you've listed as not supported.

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Post by 999900000999 »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #272
999900000999 wrote: post #189

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I welcome a good conversation. Linux still isn't really ready for normal people who have other things to do. Arguably if it's within your budget and you just want your computer to work, buy a Mac. I make music and I don't want to fiddle with external drives so I'm basically stuck on Windows. My biggest issue with Macs is not being able to replace the SSD. Eventually all SSDs must fail. Might not be in 2 years, might…

"It just works" was always a marketing slogan for Apple, not an actual reality. It's certainly not appropriate for an OS where perfectly standard mice have frustrating, decades-old limitations like scroll direction being tied to the touchpad settings and forward/backyard buttons not working.

If you stay in the Apple Box of supported use cases it's fine.

The customer support story is also much better. Instead of dealing with IRC channels and Reddit post trying to figure out why the latest kernel ruined everything, you go to the Apple Store.

I literally run Tumbleweed on my second laptop, I like Linux.

It's just not for people who don't want to invest time into understanding how computers work.

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