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  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than everEnglish
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    6 days ago

    To add to this-

    One of the biggest traps for new linux users since forever has been to jump straight into the deep end- tweaking any and every tunable- then when that inevitably all breaks, blaming Linux and moving back.

    For anyone reading- You don’t need Arch as your first distro, you don’t want to on the bleeding edge unless you’re prepared to bleed. You don’t need things like Golden Eggroll Proton or any external launchers.

    Just keep it simple to start- Something like Mint, SuSE or plain Fedora with Steam using the built-in Proton.

    Bazzite gets… let say ‘advertised’ a lot and it’s got a lot of good ideas - but if you’re coming from Windows I think it’s just too much - it’s an immutable system* with containers for everything. That’s an ocean away from Windows unless you were comfortable with Sandboxie beforehand (if you were, dive right in)

    *\the system is read only, you cannot change anything in the default image, ie. imagine if you were never allowed to add files to c:\windows

    Edit: For the newbs, an ancient meme- https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Trans Rights Are Workers RightsEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Corporations support whichever way the wind is blowing. They don’t care about ethics, they care about money.

    For a long time in the western world, diversity was considered good PR, so that’s what they did. It builds up as corporations compete with each other to be the most diverse, the most as you might call it ‘woke’.

    Now since the wind in the US is blowing the other way, some western corporations are following suit, some will follow the EU’s lead and keep diversity but at a lower level.

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Just use cURLEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Principles that Im referring to are e.g. abstraction and ‘divide and conquer’. IT exists to make things simple that would otherwise be hard (to put it simply). Why would you deliberately abstain from using an abstraction that makes API testing easier and faster?

    We’ve gone well past that now though and are back into making pointless and unnecessary complications to differentiate products so ‘new solutions’ can be sold managerial types.

    Adding a service that needs to authenticate adds more steps and more complication. It’s not making the task easier.