refalo

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why do you need something different?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

What are the different verbs in English and how do they compare?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

Some people prefer GUIs, I see having extra choices as a good thing.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Any browser or html/css-based rendering is still 100x more computationally expensive and RAM-bloated than a native approach.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You may be surprised at how much of the current gnome gui is already javascript and html/css

[–] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fark still exists?!

If only I could read it... endless captcha loops for me.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It has newer packages than Debian. And even though Debian releases new stables every couple years, at least historically, it has kept old package versions around for way longer than that. Before I started using ubuntu sometime in the '10s, it was normal for a debian stable package to be upwards of 10 years out of date.

And it wasn't like today where you have containers/VMs, PPAs, flatpak/appimage/snap/etc... if you needed a newer version of a package for whatever reason, often you couldn't just compile it yourself or use the testing/unstable one because it had cascading dependencies that were also newer, so you were just screwed. Being able to have a "stable" release with newer packages was a huge draw for Ubuntu.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

If you're using lutris or proton/etc., you're probably already using esync/fsync.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My bet would be ulterior motive.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

techlore has burned bridges with every group/platform they have attempted to partner with

[–] refalo@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Linux is not an operating system, it's just the kernel and has no concept of users/accounts or logging in to anything.

A great many Linux-based distros ("operating systems") are not under US jurisdiction.

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