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  • RagingToad@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    I have never owned a console, but have been playing games since I was 4 (that would be 1981). Also I can’t remember paying for anything in those days :-) Everything came on cassettes and floppies.

    I made some very basic text based games back then. Nothing that anyone else would ever play :-)

    (Also I am a developer, but not in the FOSS sphere)









  • RagingToad@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux advocacy discussion (mastodon)
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    So why do so many people seem to think Linux needs to become bigger on Desktop?

    Personally I am not looking forward to the consequences: capitalism will make sure there will be something on Linux to make money off. They will try to conquer it, introduce walled gardens, stores you will have to pay for, by watching ads.

    Android was Open Source once until Google decided to mainstream it.





  • I could not turn off mouse acceleration, which was a deal-breaker for me.

    Actually not Wayland’s fault if I remember correctly, something about libinput changing it’s format, and my window manager wasn’t compatible with it yet. After trying for several hours I found a bug report (can’t find it right now). The Devs thought it was a minor issue, but for me it was huge so I decided I’ll wait another year.

    I must say, Wayland was smoooooth, didn’t even experience X as slow until I tried Wayland.


  • Ah but then you are talking about servers? That would be a different story! The machine that I use for development (laptop) should always work (I would trust nixos with this) and if I want to spin up a container (docker run) or install an application (apt install)or change my vpn client configuration it is currently effortless and I’m not sure nixos can do that.

    Actually using nixos for some of my private servers would be a nice use case…


  • I’m very critical of all the immutable distrubtions - as an old timer in tech I’ve seen so many things come and go. I’m also curious, ofcourse, and already tried out a VM with NixOS and everything seemed fine. But I’m going to wait it out before something like that becomes my main driver, I have a job to do (development, systems, stuff) and I cannot afford to say “sorry little to no progress today, my OS needs tinkering”.

    (Feel free to tell me I’m wrong :-) I love to tinker with new stuff).