Quoting: Lycurgus87

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Lycurgus87Mate you are tiny bit condescending
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Or the other options again..the tree over there.

You're condescending, says the guy who told me to climb back to the nearest tree.
But I wasn't. I am a tiny bit now: The point went over your head. The point was, there are lots of branches of knowledge that can make claims that if you don't have them you are inferior. It is rare for the claims to be valid; claims about the arts or political economy or DIY home maintenance are no more/less valid than your claim that if I don't want to learn computers I should return to the apes. Do you get it now?

Yes there are lot of branch of knowledge and you don't need to know all but...and this is a big but, usually you don't need to know all that because you don't want to use it.

BUT if you want to use something you have to learn it. ...

I used to think like you, opposing simplifications to computer software (or as I would have called it, stupidification) when I was young, because "you need to know exactly how computers work, otherwise you lose your smartness". Some bs like that.

I was wrong, and hope you can take this chance to learn this well.

Just because you have to use it, doesn't mean you need to understand it. You in particular may be smart and curious and capable and willing to understand, which is a great thing. Most people however are either incapable or unwilling to learn about everything.

And please understand that this sort of talk also drives people away (don't get defensive please, and appreciate the feedback), so be mindful of the effect of your statements on people who are showing an interest in Linux.

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Quoting: Lycurgus87And learn to use your system, because probably (about 99%) you are the problem, not your machine, nor the software.

Oh no no no, never say that. Take any device (a computer, a door, a hose, whatever), and if most users have trouble using it, that's definitely a design flaw of the device.

Here, see this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI

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Bug report: you have to comment to change subscription state

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I use ubuntu, and I don't like snaps. There, another data point. Honestly, more things having become snap-by-default is the reason I haven't upgraded from 20.04.And when I have a day to spare, why I plan to switch to Manjaro.

To be clear, it's not like I prefer flatpak etc to snaps, I think the whole idea of bundle-everything-like-it's-windows packages is inefficient for so many damn reasons.

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I spend my days trying to keep my actual girl from crying, don't need that in my game time, lol

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git reset --hard last_known_good_commit

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What I don't understand is why all this PE work is taking so long. You'd imagine they'd have some elf2pe tool that runs on the linker output after they build wine, what's stopping them from running it over everything all at once?

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Quoting: GuestHow can people commenting here and even this site owner not realize that a platform without developers is destined to die? The ability to run other OSes applications is not enough to make a platform survive, it never was: look at OS/2, or if you prefer a story where Microsoft loses, Windows Phone: nobody was developing for it, Microsoft even had a project to allow WP to run Android apps (it was called Astoria). They realized the hopelessness of it and they killed it, preferring to abandon that market instead. Developers make a platform's fortunes, and Proton is shouting to developers "keep developing for windows".

Yes, a platform without developers dies. That's Linux gaming alright! You either have:

- Linux gaming dies out, or
- it lives with proton and maybe if it survives you have a hope of asking devs to target it

To use your own example, WP without the Android emulator was a *definite* failure. WP with the Android emulator was a *maybe* succeeds (which, thankfully didn't).

So we need proton if we want to have a chance of existing.

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Quoting: Raaben

Quoting: TheSHEEEPFor a lot of devs, the first option is vastly more feasible, though (due to their lack of Linux dev knowledge).

And that will never change from relying on Proton. We shouldn't see Proton as an end goal. We'll keep playing catchup to proprietary tech forever, hoping to stay fast enough and to be honest, hope that corporate interest aka Valve stays interested. Instead of Vulkan, SDL, and other cross platform tech getting used and improved by more and more developers, we'll just be supporting more DirectX.

I'll say it again because I always have to as people like to twist my words, I am not saying Proton is evil or absolutely no Tux nbo Bucks ever, but we need to stop saying 'native doesn't matter' for the future.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Say you are developer of a popular game. Right now, you might not care to support a platform for an extra 1% income, and yes, be happy somebody else is taking care of it.

But if that's 10% of your income, are you really going to let that be at the merci of a third party library? No, you will definitely look into supporting it yourself. That might mean bundling and tweaking dxvk initially, and over time having an inhouse build with more control.

There is no way native is ignored if the shares are significant enough. That's why you don't need to *push* for native, it will happen on its own. What you need is push for Linux adoption.

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They lost me at javascript, but then caught my attention again with C.

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