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Veteran programers perfer split keyboard over qwerty and qwerty is not designed to be comfortable to type with to begin with. It is layout that way because early typewriter had a tendency to get keys stuck and laying out letter like that made it less likely, this problem doesn't exist on modern keyboard but the layout got carried over because existing typists did not want to retrain their muscle memory for a new layout.

Nah, you can literally plug the drive with the linux partition from one computer and move it into another and expect it to boot completely fine out of the box.

I mean you are just booting one flavor of android with another flavor of android. What's the point? All other os are not made to run on phones. Even if they are, firmware and drivers support for your device might not even exist

Servers do not rock windows because of popularity of the LAMP stack back in the 1990s. I mean who doesn't like open sourced, free/cost less server hosting solutions? This continues to the modern day even if LAMP is no longer as popular as it once was. Apache and things like docker all run better on Linux too.

Because I asked how to use yay and instead have an asshat tell me to learn to use pkg build from an aur package before even consider using a helper. Should I also learn to skin my sheep and milk my own cow when I want to make a sweater and eat cheese? It won't change the muscle memory and habits of people who have been pulling doors all their lives. They might be as much annoyed at the designers stupid choice to create a handle-less pushing door as much as you are at their "stupidity". It is one of the reason why Windows people have such trouble with Linux. Some design choices are simply counter intuitive to people who have done things in a certain way.

I only see bad behaviors among those who daily drive arch. They have a pretty elitist mentality.

Almost the same question as is it worth it to compile your own Adobe premier for performance. Your operating system should be using as much ram as it can because this way applications are cache and will load/perform faster and better. People who keep on talking about small ram usuage sacrifices two things. 1. Less feature rich and uglier/less capable softwares OR 2. counterintutively less performance because using cache data rather than rerunning computation for the same data all over again is actually faster, who knows! It is almost as if some alogrithms are design to trade space for time!(for those not familar, this is a common strategy in alogrthm design and analysis to speed up an alogrithm and improve efficiency).

I distro hop in the past. Fedora and ubuntu are by far my go to when I just want something reliable. I ditched fedora recently because I don't really like having to deal with rolling release in which I am force to upgrade my system every year. Ubuntu LTS with its half decade support life works better.

I can just install emulators to turn it I to a gaming box but I am pretty against the idea of playing windows games on there. I have windows on my 2nd drive so if I want to play windows games, I would boot into that instead. Not sure why I would want to wine it. Emulating ps2, switch ect or playing open-source games are different matter. They are pretty much equivalent on both windows and linux and I would pick my linux os over windows in all cases when equal.

Hey, slap on an Apple logo and everything magically becomes better. Sex, weed, and even video games not really, WINE is a compatibility layer for windows API, it does not virtualize any hardware. true virtualization like what you see in hypervisors however do, from disks to CPU. I mean just read what WINE stands for, it is not an emulator. Wine has a slight performance hit because it translates windows API calls on the fly during RUNTIME. Many native Linux ports of windows games actually all do the same thing but at the COMPILED TIME so the performance hit is less. e.g. game publishers like Feral uses such technology to port their games to linux, they did the translation at the source code layer before compiling it to native binaries. it is like those interpreters vs compilers misunderstanding among many people. Like I said, not a virtualization. Microsoft does the same thing for its apis when they do major windows release. these are called service packs. they are more rare nowadays but during the xp to Windows Vista eras, they were very much a necessity to get older Windows programs to run. They are considered runtimes because they provide an "environment" with all the necessary stuff for a program to run during their "running-time"(lol). Steam ships its own runtime btw. it is here ValveSoftware/steam-runtime: A runtime environment for Steam applications (github.com) This is how valve can get steam and all the games it ships with to run on all major Linux distros regardless of whatever breaking changes and differences between distro and between distro releases. It still doesn't solve the problem of many games breaking because of whatever newer release nvidia drivers breaking the games or devs bundles in their own dependencies that no longer function on the newer distros. i had the latter issues when playing Star Rulers 2. I had to replace the .so shared library file in its game directory with the newer updated one to get the game to run. like I said, although Valve made it easy, it doesn't fix the lack of apathy from the game publishers and devs.

if you are talking about technicality then yes but for users, same uses cases, same experiences. use flatpak and these are not really a major limitation. it all depends on what you wanna do. i personally create a /bin in my home and throw all my dev tools and softwares in there on all the linux distros i used in the past. you can simply treat steam os like a regular linux desktop but as less privileged user without root access

I mean thats what usb c hub, bluetooth keyboard/mouse, and a monitor is for. steam machine is just a skin arch under the hood. it is no different than me just setting steam to big picture mode by default and auto start up it on boot in ubuntu minus some drivers and controllers quick access stuff. if you go into desktop, it is very vanilla linux with a KDE desktop. i mean for $400ish bucks, steam os beats out most laptop and can double as a PC unlike a regular console or switch.

They look the same to me

Nope, i never had a steam deck although, you can use it as a desktop as well. You just need to exit out of steam and into desktop mode. It does regular desktop stuffs just fine. Unless you are working with windows only applications and technology, you should be more than comfortable with developing in a Linux, or at least an unix like enviorment. All IDEs are avaliable, minus the platform exclusive xcode and visual studio of course. In fact, it is pretty much unavoidable for many software dev, especially fullstack web dev. All web frameworks like node, asp net, php ect are all available and cross-platform on Linux and are generally meant to be hosted on Linux web servers. For government and many corporate/enterprise dev, POSIX compatibility and POSIX compatible softwares is in fact a requirement. It is good to get familiar even if you don't daily drive. Most people generally code on windows or macos machines(for web applications) and deploy/test the stuffs to/on linux via ssh but developing locally on Linux itself is a great experience too. I had done it professionally for a couple of years before my current company force me to use mac as my work computer

Try steam deck buddy. It beats out nientendo switch as a gaming console. Heck, I used to play bootlegged nientendo 3ds and switch games on Linux via an emulator, mostly pokemons, from 3rd gen on Gameboy advance all the way to the lastest gen scarlet and violet for the switch, run smooth as butter(please don't sue me nientendo). Problem arise when people want to play the latest Windows triple As or when the devs no longer update/fix their games for the latest version of the distros(looking at you feral) or roll out some updates to their games that break on Linux(looking at you paradox interactive).

Some people are just confidently wrong. They believe what they say and say it confidently as fact even if factually wrong. What amazes me is how many people, especially laymen, would believe it as long as these mixed in some misunderstood, misued, and abused jargons from the internet. That said, Linux games do break a lot, even the NATIVE linux games. I have several Linux games from feral that no longer work. A couple from paradox interactive too(Victoria 3 no longer worked). A lot of it has to do with nvidia drivers. Vic3 can not detect my descrete gpu for example while others broke because of some xyz absence or incompatibility of some shared libary the game rely on. All of these can be fixed if devs do good quality QA, roll out patches, and fix their games but they don't do this on Linux, I am pretty sure windows is the only os they ever test their games on. People have more luck running windows games via steam play than playing native linux versions for some games these days. Open source games are a different matter. If maintain well, these will run. If they don't run on Linux, more likely than not, they won't run on windows or any other operating system for that matter either.

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Indeed, science fiction, for now anyways. Fun fact, economic growth ties closely with technology, which has been exponential for the past century as well. Before the industrial revolution, gdp was literally a function of people times the amount of farmland. Now it is people times productivity per person in which productivity per person correlates directly with technology.

You think nuclear weapons mean unlimited power? Cute. I am talking about type III civilization technology here and an economy in which average per capita wealth per person is literally an entire planet orbiting within a Dyson sphere. Average per person energy expenditure can be the entire daily output of an entire star and all goods can be assemble and fabricated at the molecular level like those fabricators you see in star trek while services can be entirely produced by ai robots at our whims. When we reach this level, we are like literal gods.

In the future, sapient ai and robots should be performing all the labor, even that of intellectual and artistic kind, leaving rest of humanity to just be hedonists living on universal basic income and have every single needs be pamper to. In short, it shall be an utopian society that has achieved post scarcity economy by allowing ai to take all of our jobs. Who agree with me?

Webpage is a gui you know that right? In fact, it is the most popular front end facing gui out of anything else out there, especially if your application needs to communicate with another piece of software, say a server for example.

People don't like some xyz and so they fork it and change it to something they like. That's pretty much all the reasons. It is no different than painting your car a different color than the base model. You can also swap out the tires, change the windshield, engine, or whatnot. Also, customizing your PC. Swap out cpus, ram, ect from the base model. You get the idea.

you dont need a case, use a cardboard

buying $1000 worth of potatoes

counter question, why a console when you can get a cloud gaming subscription that allows you to game for 5 years for less than the cost of a console that you need to upgrade every 5 years on average?