> It can be a miracle, and yet still not be good enough. Even as a business user, knowing that if I build an app and it probably won’t work in 5 years, is all I need to know about this hobbyist toy
Build a Flatpak, you're done. Your application can depend on a stable runtime and work on any Linux distribution.
> Linux is fundamentally not ready for anyone who has needs more than a Chromebook (which also runs Steam, by the way).
Chromebooks now cover 85% of the U.S. education market, that's most workloads. The Steam Deck is also Linux (SteamOS).
What's left in the world of Win32 apps? Specialty commercial applications like Photoshop, first person shooter games that require an anticheat kernel driver. If you don't need those, a system like Bazzite is much less user hostile than what Windows has become in the era of Windows 11.
>Build a Flatpak, you're done. Your application can depend on a stable runtime and work on any Linux distribution.
Flatpak weakens but does not entirely remove the dependence on the underlying Linux distributon. Flatpak relies on a system service called xdg-desktop-portal to bridge apps inside the flatpak sandbox with the host OS. Applications distributed using flatpak may not work as expected if the distribution ships too old a version of xdg-desktop-portal.
Does everyone else have access to the data mining that Google has on every Chrome and Android user? Does every other company have unfettered access to Google Maps without providing identifying data? Does every other company have the ability to utilize Youtube vidoes as they wish?
You are comparing Apple's primary product/service against a throwaway part of Google's. Google has walled gardens around its primary business too. But they are so deeply ingrained into our world that nobody questions it, because there's also no viable competitors.
Chromecast only works from iOS for apps that have integrated with the Chromecast SDK. Like Netflix and Youtube.
Maybe the EU can ask Google to open Chromecast up so Apple can integrate it into iOS. Then you can use it from any app without needing special integrations.
Apple has all the information they need, available publicly, to implement an OS-wide Chromecast client. They haven't done so because they don't want to.
I have this, I was diagnosed after a formal neuropsych eval at the hospital after many years struggling with math.
The numbers I can work around, everyone keeps a calculator in their pockets these days. What sucked was that it's not a common diagnosis, so I was constantly berated and insulted for being bad at math, as if I didn't apply myself or work hard enough.
Similarly, there's a lot of pro-Tesla propaganda by those who own shares in Tesla. I avoid this by not considering Tesla when considering a car, as the truth is too murky.
That article does not state that "Republicans" tanked the economy. It says the economy is on average worse when a Republican is president.
All the cited sources, basically concludes that the performance of the economy is almost entirely based on factors beyond the control of the President or Congress.
Which makes sense. The economy is complicated, and people will change based votes on their feelings. The Economy is also notorious for lagging indicators. Political parties often blame their circumstances on the "last" administration.
I'm dealing with technical debt and decisions that were entrenched 30 to 40 years ago in many cases. Extrapolating the realities of my experience in different business and technical environments informs me that it's really not this simple.
These articles don't really help people understand economics, they are designed to sell you a certain belief.
Sid was diagnosed with osteosarcoma a while back, so hopefully he's on the road to recovery but stepping down isn't usually a sign things are going smoothly.
I can't remember, I gave it a go for a couple of days, switching between Win and Linux installs to make sure settings and the like where the same to be fair.
In the end perf was bad, so wiped that drive and now it has more games on it.
I've been on Bazzite for a few months on my machine (7800 XT) with Windows on a secondary partition. Of the games I've tested Linux performance is identical, but Steam can precompile shaders in the background on Linux which eliminates compilation stutter.
Then we don't respect their copyrights? Why is this some sort of unsolvable problem and the only solution is to allow mega corporations to sell us AI that is trained on the work of artists without their consent?
I've managed a few thousand VMs in the past, and I'm extremely grateful for it. An image is built in CI, service declares what it needs, the scheduler just handles shit. I'm paged significantly less and things are predictable and consistent unlike the world of VMs where even your best attempt at configuration management would result in drift, because the CM system is only enforcing a subset of everything that could go wrong.
But yes, Kubernetes is configured in YAML, and YAML kind of sucks, but you rarely do that. The thing that changes is your code, and once you've got the boilerplate down CI does the rest.
> But yes, Kubernetes is configured in YAML, and YAML kind of sucks, but you rarely do that.
I'm sorry, citation needed on that. I spend a lot of time working with the damn YAML files. It's not a one-off thing for me.
You're not the first person to say this to me, they say "you rarely touch the YAML!!!", but then I look at their last six PRs, and each one had at least a small change to the YAML setup. I don't think you or they are lying, I think people forget how often you actually have to futz with it.
I'd prefer Ansible if I was running VM:s. Did that at a gig, controlled a vCenter cluster and hundreds of machines in it, much nicer experience than Kubernetes style ops. Easier to do ad hoc troubleshooting and logging for one.
until, as happened to us, you're in the middle of an upgrade cycle, with a mix of red-hat 6 and red-hat 8 servers, and ansible decide to require support for the latest available version of python on red-hat 8, which isn't available on red-hat 6, so we have no way of using ansible to manage both sets of servers.
Well, you were free to install a version of Python3 on the CentOS6 machines, that's what we ended up doing and using for Ansible. Python 2.6 support of Ansible was a bad lie, multiple things broke already. 10 years of support without acknowledging changes of ecosystem just don't work.
we did, but then most ansible modules still didn't work on the system. They advertise the no-agent thing and how it does everything over ssh, and instead require python to be installed on all your servers because it generates python code and runs it on the remote machine. And somemodules require specific versions sometimes.
Sure, and I'm also not a fan of RedHat. We ran Ubuntu and Debian on that gig, the few Python issues we ran into we could fix with some package pinnings and stuff like that.
I think it is also a difference between developer and IT. Usually the requirements don't ask for thousands of VMs if you don't run some kind of data center or a company that specializes on software services.
Build a Flatpak, you're done. Your application can depend on a stable runtime and work on any Linux distribution.
> Linux is fundamentally not ready for anyone who has needs more than a Chromebook (which also runs Steam, by the way).
Chromebooks now cover 85% of the U.S. education market, that's most workloads. The Steam Deck is also Linux (SteamOS).
What's left in the world of Win32 apps? Specialty commercial applications like Photoshop, first person shooter games that require an anticheat kernel driver. If you don't need those, a system like Bazzite is much less user hostile than what Windows has become in the era of Windows 11.