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Post by lelanthran »

lousken wrote: post #84
haritha-j wrote: post #69

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VLC is a GREAT media player

Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4

> Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff

Just how new does the new stuff have to be? I use VLC daily (because even though we have 4x streaming services, when I want to watch 3rd Rock from the Sun, it's not on any of them.

Some of the very new movies are also not on any of the streaming services, so I am left wondering, if I downloaded a movie that was only torrented a few days ago, just how new does the movie have to be to be unsupported by VLC?

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Post by Ray20 »

egeres wrote: post #200
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Unfortunately, that last 10% of games are AAA competitive multiplayer that account for a massive user base who are still dependent on windows to play them (battlefield 6, fortnite, any of the call of duty games from the last 8 years, league of legends, GTA online, apex legends, rainbow six siege...)

And in the Linux community, "run" apparently has a slightly different meaning than what ordinary people are used to.

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Post by keyringlight »

mikkupikku wrote: post #72
LogicHound wrote: post #44

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The big budget games are often the ones that people are playing. Sure there have been a few big flops as of late, but a huge number of people are playing that require kernel level anti-cheat and DRM that does not work on Linux. There are also other issues around how well those games work. Some games will work perfectly fine. I am not disputing that. It is a bit of a lottery though e.g. I had annoying sound issues wit…

On Linux, the really old games just work, as do virtually all new games with the exception of those very few big budget new releases. If those are the games you really want to play then Windows is the answer, have fun ponying up your drivers license to Microsoft for the privilege of getting root kitted by those games. Literally everything else just works on Linux, one click install and play through steam, no bullshit…

For the "huge number of games work on linux" I wonder how valuable that really is to drawing people to linux as PC gaming has a challenge with huge numbers of releases that aren't noteworthy and don't have many players, I'd guess most of them are not doing anything technically novel or quirky (i.e. using a popular engine with minimal changes) so can easily be compatible.

Is there much value there for users or the linux platform? Some definitely, but it's not going to move the dial much compared to if say valve, codeweavers, or someone else could work with EA to get an agreeable solution that lets Battlefield6 work on linux, as an example with a large audience that's locked into windows to play what they want.

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Post by LogicHound »

sylens wrote: post #145
LogicHound wrote: post #19

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The 90% of games running on Linux does not say how well and what games. Sure I can play the Batman: Arkham Knight perfectly on Linux. However the game is a decade old now. Try playing some titles that came out this year and it going to be very variable, multiplayer titles are often a no go at all due to anti-cheat. You can argue to you are blue in the face about kernel level anti-cheat but at the end of the day if al…

Expedition 33 is a GOTY contender this year and it’s been working great for me on Linux

I am sure it is fine. HellDivers 2 (the game I like to play) needed a lot of messing about with to work well on Linux. It really depends on what game you are playing as to how well it works. Having the odd game that doesn't work is a deal breaker for a lot of people.

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Post by ethin »

amelius wrote: post #170
jacquesm wrote: post #96

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> Let's be realistic, accessibility — whether you like it or not — is an edge case. Spoken like a true techbro. This attitude is so incredibly destructive. Technology is how we mediate our lives, cutting a very large number of citizens out of that is simply wrong, even if 'the numbers just aren't there' (and they are!).

AI will soon fill this gap, hopefully. Anyway, I think the CLI approach of Linux is way more accessible than the more GUI oriented approach of Windows/MacOS.

I really would like to not depend on AI to resolve accessibility problems in Linux. That seems like a really, really bad idea.

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Post by swader999 »

Y_Y wrote: post #46
jasode wrote: post #38

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>The solution is to run Linux. The Linux answer is often repeated but unfortunately, some users depend on various Windows software that only runs properly on Windows. E.g. CAD/CAM, Quicken finance, sewing embroidery, etc can't run in a Linux WINE emulator nor QEMU/KVM virtual machine. And avoiding the WINE/KVM incompatibilities by switching to "Linux-native" software such as Gimp often means having less features and/…

What software do you have that doesn't work in a VM? Without going to extra effort the environment should be indistinguishable for the application.

For me it's ski race timing Software. Need a USB dongle and timing computer(a proprietary device that logs timestamps, prints and translates pulses offa wire into start and finish events to the PC Software) via USB. There's a lot of moving parts to manage, things like power to the USB, sleep etc. Bricking a ski race where thousands of volunteer, kid and coach hours have been spent in preparation for it is a nightmare. Last season our windows machines were in a Windows update death spiral on race day. The timing operators had no clue how to overcome it.

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Post by ethin »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #165
jacquesm wrote: post #96

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> Let's be realistic, accessibility — whether you like it or not — is an edge case. Spoken like a true techbro. This attitude is so incredibly destructive. Technology is how we mediate our lives, cutting a very large number of citizens out of that is simply wrong, even if 'the numbers just aren't there' (and they are!).

I have nothing to do with tech bros. Did I advocate for lack of accessibility features ? I just pointed out that in this context there are things far higher in the priority list. Especially given the fact that there are accessibility features, just not on par with windows. Do you seriously believe that improving accessibility would have a higher impact in Linux adoption than improving robustness and hardware compatib…

Uh... Yes, yes we do. You do realize that adding accessibility features (and I mean actually high quality versions of said features) helps everybody, right? It isn't a low-priority item. To pretend like it is just shows your ignorance.

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Post by dspillett »

jncfhnb wrote: post #159
theshrike79 wrote: post #136

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There's an old anecdote that everyone uses only 10% of Excel's features ...but everyone uses a different 10%. Something that's useless to you might be a dealbreaker to someone else.

I doubt that holds up personally I would guess reliance on excel is declining

> I would guess reliance on excel is declining

In some places, yes, especially where certain online options are good enough.

Definitely not in financial services, and many offices I could mention. Even for me: Excel is the reason I haven't completely binned MS Office. For the subset of features I use⁰ it is better all round¹ than other things I've tried.

I'll miss it significantly when the last Windows machine that I operate away from DayJob is no more.

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[0] Probably less than that 10%

[1] There are many tasks for which there is something better, but the something is different in each case. Excel is a very good jack-of-all-trades.

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Post by sgjohnson »

chithanh wrote: post #138
haunter wrote: post #17

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IoT LTSC is updated until 2032 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows... I use it since 2021 on my gaming PC. Zero problems, it’s a trimmed down Win 10 with most of the bloatware removed Win 11 has a similar trimmed down LTSC version Just install it, MS doesn’t care about piracy

Win10 IoT LTSC does not cover all use cases though. When it comes to gaming, for example Windows Mixed Reality is not included and cannot be installed afterwards (but then again, Microsoft dropped it from Windows 11 too, so no loss there). Only way to keep it is staying with consumer Windows 10 or use 3rd party software like Oasis.

Problem with 10 LTSC is the fact that it's based on 21H2, and there definitely isn't going to be a feature update for it, now that 11 LTSC is out. Some games already require 22H2.
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