Been trying Manjaro lately. Just tried to unzip something, but “unzip” wasn’t installed. Thankfully, zsh offered to install it for me. I type “y” and hit enter… and it decides to download and install 1.3gb worth of updates (243 packages)
Around 5 minutes later, everything is done and I can unzip my file :)
(Although it did say I should restart my computer for the “changes” to take effect)
If Ubuntu is a “Linux distribution”, doesn’t that make MacOS a “Darwin distribution”? Or Windows 11 a “Windows NT distribution”? Seems unnecessarily confusing/misleading to me. I have family members from Cuba who were traumatized by a shitty gov’t distro many years ago, and now they hate anything with the Linux name (they love Android tho). They get annoyed if I even suggest they try a Linux computer. Google had the right idea with keeping tight control over the Android trademark IMO.
Also would probably only be effective for large libs that can’t be easily replaced, like Qt
Realistically, some orgs will find the burden of porting to Linux too high (dev time + customer support). In that case, they can either purchase a commercial license, or go with the GPL option. In the latter case, the world gets more free software, in the former case at least the devs get paid to support development
Pro: more software for Linux, even from corps that wouldn’t bother porting due to small user base. In the long run, can improve availability of software for linux
Con: ported software will not necessarily be open source, high quality, or well-supported.
Dusted off the old Vive yesterday, drilled base stations into my walls, rearranged furniture, and wired everything up. To my surprise, SteamVR worked perfectly on Linux! No issues whatsoever!
…but then I tried to play something, and couldn’t find a single game that worked. The ones that managed to at least launch through Proton were still unplayable, either because of bugs or poor performance.
I guess Linux VR is still just a dream…
I decided to try and mess with Twitter’s algorithms by consciously scrolling past every single ad I see as quickly as possible, so they see I have zero engagement with ads to see what happens. It became like a little game, and I’ve been doing that for a couple of months.
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of posts from @TwitterSurveys saying I’m part of a group of people selected to answer a few questions. Idk of it’s related to what I was doing, but I like to think so :P
(I ignored that too)
My next life goal: incorporate GNU Guix into my development workflow. Currently using Conan for C++ dependency management, but I’m not very happy with it. Guix seems like it can solve that problem, as well as a ton of others. Only concern is windows, osx, and ios support. Cross building to windows/osx might be doable, but ios has some closed off black boxes in the standard toolchain iirc. NixOS works on mac I think, but I’m a GNU fanboy.
Can anyone here recommend a trustworthy domain registrar? Google Domains is the only service I've yet to kick in my de-Googling journey. I got screwed over in the past by a registrar that went out of business (badger.com), billed me, but didn't actually renew the registration. Since then I've been wary of switching to any random registrar.
Not the best outcome, but it could’ve been worse. The dream of third party app stores on iOS isn’t here yet, but at least the anti-steering stuff is going away. 🥳 https://www.protocol.com/epic-v-apple-verdict-concludes-apple-is-not-a-monopolist
Indie game developer who lives in Linux. https://aramallo.com