What makes you say that? I’ve been using Wayland for a few years now with 0 issues.

The only thing I miss and switch to Xorg for is screen sharing in video calls.

Well, if your mac address changes every time you connect to a different network, Unity would be detecting and billing for a lot of false positives, so it would be a bad method to identify unique devices.

Except iOS will randomize its mac adress at each boot / after a while to prevent users being tracked by rogue WiFi networks, which is actually a thing being used to track consumers in commercial spaces etc. So that wouldn’t work.

I guess all the other open source operating systems don’t count anymore?

Lol I didn’t see your comment and posted almost the same comment.

A hard disk. Not boot from a hard disk, but the hard disk controller is actually made to run Linux: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

I mostly use Sway (which is Wayland based) but also have Gnome and LXDE installed. I use one of those with X11 when I need to screenshare, because I can’t make that work on wayland. No real issues besides them having each others apps in their launcher menus.

I’ve been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix. Mozilla, for all it’s flaws, has been our first and only line of defense for an open web for so long.

Same. Everything just works great out of the box.

I got both an AMD desktop and laptop GPU and I’ve had 0 issues with either. It’s been so refreshing.

Linksys was part of Cisco. They had veryy deep pockets, but the FSF & SFC prevailed regardless.

I doubt the FSF or SFC will go after Nvidia, this has been a long standing issue and I haven’t heard about any lawsuits being brought because of it, even before Nvidia had more money than God.

Free Software Foundation, Inc. Vs Cisco Systems Inc. disagrees. The FSF sued Linksys for violating the license for GCC, libc etc.

And they were forced in court to release all their WRT stuff under GPL, which is how OpenWRT got its start.

Got to agree with @[email protected] here, although it depends on the scope of your service or project.

Cloud services are good at getting you up and running quickly, but they are very, very expensive to scale up.

I work for a financial services company, and we are paying 7 digit monthly AWS bills for an amount of work that could realistically be done with one really big dedicated server. And now we’re required to support multiple cloud providers by some of our customers, we’ve spent a TON of effort trying to untangle from SQS/SNS and other AWS specific technologies.

Clouds like to tell you:

• Using the cloud is cheaper than running your own server
• Using cloud services requires less manpower / labour to maintain and manage
• It’s easier to get up and running and scale up later using cloud services

The last item is true, but the first two are only true if you are running a small service. Scaling up on a cloud is not cost effective, and maintaining a complicated cloud architecture can be FAR more complicated than managing a similar centralized architecture.

I’m not talking about buying a Steam Deck, I’m talking about the effect it has had on Linux gaming in general.

I mostly play on a laptop with a Radeon GPU and it’s been absolutely issue free gaming wise.

I used to have this problem but not since the Steam Deck is out.

Before, I was always frustrated fiddling with Lutris, winetricks, etc. But now it’s only been plug and play for me, just let Steam take care of it. Zero compatibility issues. In fact, recently I’ve had more issues with native games than Proton.

Crash his car into the wall and break his wrist :(

Same. Gentoo taught me so much. Wouldn’t run it today, though. Ain’t got time for that.

I don’t know. I like Debian. My home server also doubles as a desktop sometimes and it does a good job.

I’m mostly not super interested in cutting edge versions. I run a newer kernel and mesa than default Debian, but the rest is just fine. I’m fine with Firefox ESR, and lagging a little bit behind the state of the art.

For proprietary, non-free software I’d much prefer them to be sandboxed in Flatpak, thank you very much. So yeah, let Flatpak integrate payments!

For open source keystone applications, like my browser or my text editor, please let me have an unsandboxed native package.

Yeah. I switched away from Ubuntu for all this crap.

I moved to Fedora for my laptop & desktop, and Debian for my home server. I’m considering switching everything to Debian eventually, but there’s a couple dedicated repos that make using Fedora on my laptop much easier for now.

The problem that the courts haven’t really answered yet is: How much human input is needed to copyright something? 5%? 20%? 50%? 80%? If some AI wrote most of a script and a human writer cleaned it up, is that enough?

Or perhaps even coming up and writing a prompt is considered enough human input by some.