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Playing Linux or Windows native games, because that is the whole issue, it is hardly any different than asserting there are Linux games when they are actually Amiga games running with UAE. Those games running on Proton are still produced on a Windows factory.
I wonder if there actually are any native modern Linux games, I don't recall any.
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If Apple can't work out a legal structure that work, it will be forced to refund for the devices How is that going to happen if the US attacked Europe?
EU freezes/takes over all Apple assets in EU, users with Apple devices get the money in cash upon delivering their devices. If the money isn't enough for the refunds, a finance mechanism can be created that will be settle after the war. The returned devices may be sold to 3rd party markets if Apple isn't cooperating.
Most value/assets are in the US, I don't see how Apple in the EU would have enough interesting assets to refund. If 30% of the 450M inhabitants in the EU have an iPhone and the purchase price was 1000 Euro on average, that would be 135B Euro. I would be surprised if they have a fraction of that in the EU as assets. The primary useful asset I could think of is if the iOS source code was also stored somewhere in the EU. I guess in war it would be fair game to fork it. Wouldn't help with the existing iPhones, since the EU doesn't have the signing keys, but you could bootstrap a new phone ecosystem (and even revert Liquid Glass :p).
If the money isn't enough for the refunds, a finance mechanism can be created that will be settle after the war.
There are huge assumptions in this, like the EU wins the war, the war doesn't end in a sort-of cold war, Apple cannot get away from liability because it was not their decision, etc.
The returned devices may be sold to 3rd party markets if Apple isn't cooperating.
Flooding a 3rd-party market with over 100M second hand iPhones would drive down the prices by an extreme amount.
Yeah good on them, everyone needs to do this. It's nuts Windows is still the go-to for anything these days despite everyone knowing what a parasitic, buggy mess it is. "Easy" shouldn't be the excuse in this day and age. Big orgs and especially government entities should be hiring the people that know what they're doing and get off that crummy platform.
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It is controlled by Google so it not. As long as Google is setting the roadmap for android it is not a viable option.
Why not? GrapheneOS and others show that it is possible to make viable operating systems on top of AOSP, which also have their own useful extensions. It seems like a waste not to use an existing, well-developed, hardened, open source base, that at the same time provides great compatibility with most existing apps. Since it is open source, it would always be possible to fork if AOSP goes off the rails. I think the pri…
It's "some sources available"
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Nowadays, pretty well a lot of times means really well, maybe even better than on Windows. See Windows games running faster on Linux through Wine.
> See Windows games running faster on Linux through Wine. Let’s not leave out all the ones that don’t. Which is in fact, the majority of them. Strange how that’s always left out, we wouldn’t want to mislead people now would we?
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percen...
The 10% that has issues is normally down to kernel level anti-cheat and denuvo.
Go back 5 years and you'd be right. But it's a totally different situation now.
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> It would be an even better move to allow those in Europe or indeed the rest of the world to also benefit. Those initiatives are usually open source. It's just that many times, each country wants to make their own. But it's still better than staying with the TooBigTech monopolies.
> It's just that many times, each country wants to make their own This hits hard. I'm a French citizen who made an open source alternative to Dropbox [1], I would have never thought my own government to attempt competing in my niche. I did contact the people at DINUM and it seems they are more interested in making their own than contributing to existing projects they don't fully control [1] https://github.com/mickael…
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All games I want to play run very well and mostly the process is just "install -> play". This is largely true for games running directly through Steam, it can get pretty annoying for games that exist outside Steam. Especially when you have to do things like apply an ".msi" style patch to a game . It's doable, but the number of steps and tools you may have to pull in (such as protontricks) does get to be a bit of a pa…
Agreed, but people should definitely try Lutris. It's nearly as painless as Steam now for GOG and many other stores.
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> Isn't it about time someone developed one? Honest question: Why? If you want a Windows-like environment, run Windows. I get this all the time when people ask about a Linux equivalent for something, and aren't really satistied when it doesn't work or look the same. Linux isn't a clone of Windows. Linux comes from an older heritage, and has a unique culture. You are in for a hard time if you want to use Linux like yo…
What's the Linux version of AD and group policies? (honestly curious; linux sysadmin at scale not my day job)
The most popular way to control user desktops that I've seen is to have your user login via LDAP (just like AD), optionally with Kerberos and then have their permissions to various things controlled via those groups. For example, if you were building a "desktop policy" for Linux users across your organization, you'd probably make a .deb or .rpm that installs some udev rules that grant or deny access to various things based on which groups the users are in.
Of course, you can also control things down at the user level. You could put a script in /etc/profile.d/ that does whatever you want when the user logs in. You can even make it dependent on how they login (detect remote SSH session or local login).
There's also dconf and KDE's Kiosk mode if you really want to lock shit down to annoy TF out of your users (haha).
Once you've got your Linux desktops setup the way you want (which is usually just a matter of making your_company_desktop.deb or .rpm) to customize things/permissions, you have so much power to do things you can't do on Windows. The fine-grain control in Linux is unreal: You can give a specific user access to run and do very, very specific things as root (Windows Administrator equivalent) without much effort at all.
Linux also lets you lock down the hardware in ways Windows doesn't support. For example, you can chattr +i to make certain devices/files immutable. You could compile a custom kernel that doesn't even have USB mass storage support. What's more secure than that? Haha.
BTW: You can also make all USB mass storage devices read-only with a simple udev rule. You can even add exceptions for special things!