They're not being arrested "for protesting a genocide", they're being arrested for showing support for a group which has been declared to be a terrorist organisation. Regardless of your views on the latter, the former is an important distinction you seem to be unaware of. The fact there are thousands of people regularly protesting against Israeli actions in Palestine and yet not being arrested completely undermines your point.
It's the same vulnerabilities because Next uses the vulnerable parts of React.
Your rational is quite poor as I can write an isomorphic web app in C or Rust or Go and run parts in the browser, what then? Look, many of us also strongly dislike JavaScript but generally that distaste is based on its actual shortcomings and failures, you don't have to invent new ones plenty already exist.
> I can write an isomorphic web app in C or Rust or Go and run parts in the browser, what then?
If you have a single codebase for Go-based code running in an untrusted browser (the "toilet") and a trusted backend (the "kitchen"), then the same contamination is highly likely.
Sure, but Bun was funded by VCs and needed to figure out how to monetize, what Anthropic did is ensure it is maintained and now they have fresh talent to improve Claude Code.
Interesting final point you bring up because all of those shortcomings are part of the experience, without them you’re experiencing something completely different. (As a classic car owner that’s not entirely a bad thing in the case of the MX-5).
Yep, I run NixOS on everything but no way in hell am I recommending it to complete newbies to Linux who also have no programming experience.
I help run a small Linux gaming community and at least once a day on the Discord (yes it’s a problematic service but that’s another rant) there is someone trying to install a mod or set up some piece of sim hardware, having recently switched from Windows, and being confused by FlatPak or by system immmutability.
It feels like these things are a double edged sword, on the one hand they are less prone to break they system and not under and why, on the other they now have a bunch of new roadblocks they don’t understand nor fully comprehend the purpose of. I can’t think of a better alternative but I sort of feel that the technology isn’t the issue, more like lack of a good FTUE which provides low friction education about how the system works and why that is beneficial. To use a bit of a tired analogy, it seems to me that a certain proportion of users are being thrown a nice big fish but aren’t being helped to understand what a fishing rod is, let alone able to fish for themselves.
I think I’m really just echoing other users’ comments about how a lot of the experience doesn’t really deliberately speak to people who are barely technical and just want things to work. The sort of people who run an iPhone because it’s simple, and whose response to windows acting weird is to just reinstall it.
I'm newish to Linux, so take my opinions with a grain of salt and having a lot of unknown unknowns.
I think the update/os upgrade situation is better, security is better, and frankly my least favorite thing with Linux is going in and making sure the system state is healthy.
When I started using Linux this summer I had to wipe my system twice because I put it in broken states or couldn't figure out how to undo some change. I went through all sorts of issues like managing grub and gnome not working with my studio display or thunderbolt peripherals. Almost all of the fixes required editing arcane files then calling commands which fed them into some subsystem I had no idea about. All that blind faith online sourced stuff felt like a security nightmare too.
Since migrating to atomic fedora and then this weekend Bazzite, that has not happened once. There was initial friction with dev tool setup and toolbox, but things have been completely on the rails since then.
What’s with the Nvidia on Linux FUD like this is the mid-00s? I’ve run Nvidia cards on Linux for the better part of the last decade and it has been a pretty similar experience to when I was on Windows prior to that.
Nvidia’s Open Kernel Modules are good so far and the in-kernel Nova driver project also seems promising though some way off. I’m running a 5000 series card with Nvidia OKMs and so far it has been a really smooth experience.
Perhaps it’s just evidence that anecdata isn’t some universal truth.
I’ve had the complete opposite experience for the vast majority of games, where in most cases performance for me has been better on Linux than it was on Windows (can’t compare like for like now as I no longer have a Windows install outside of a VM). Friends of mine experience weird mid-session crashes and hangs on Windows that I’ve never had on Linux. I’m running an Nvidia GPU which is supposedly some kind of Linux boogeyman, but have had only one issue with EDID of a specific monitor and that’s it. Just my experience YMMV.
> Perhaps it’s just evidence that anecdata isn’t some universal truth.
This isn't though. I have hard numbers. I've actually measured the performance. You get 5-20 FPS less and often more input latency and stutters (1%, 0.1% lows). If the machines doesn't well with Linux, it can be much worse.
Basically on HN whenever you express an opinion based on a significant amount of experience. You get someone basically saying "this is anecdote". There is a difference between "an anecdote" and "I've actually have a huge amount experience with this stuff.
Have you produced an exhaustive survey across a wide range of hardware and driver and display manager combinations? I’m happy to be an outlier here but my own experience doesn’t match with what you described hence my reply.
If I admit to anything less than doing a gamer nexus style benchmarking suite you will just claim it is an anecdote.
I have actually tested on a number of different distros and display managers and at least two different video card chipset manufacturers. No it isn't exhaustive, but it decent enough sample size to determine that the claim that Linux performs better than Windows isn't true. Even if it is the case,the results are so variable you are better just using Windows because things are more consistent.
I am saying this BTW as someone that first started using Linux in the early 2000s. I think gaming now is really good on Linux. Is it better than Windows? Well I don't have to run Windows now to play games and that is good enough for me.
And I get totally different results. It not just the distro. It the version of the Kernel, the version of proton, whether you are using X or Wayland etc. Etc. Etc.
The very point I am making is that it is so variable. So posting benchmarks pretending that it proves anything is asinine.
I won't even get into all the other issues with the mouse getting lost on some games, text being too small/to large. Having to fuck around with LD_PRELOAD flags and loads other gumpth that is never mentioned on a YouTube video.
Your claim was that you tested and "You get 5-20 FPS less and often more input latency and stutters (1%, 0.1% lows)", "it decent enough sample size to determine that the claim that Linux performs better than Windows isn't true". That you tested so well, that it can't be considered to be anecdata. You claimed that it is universal truth.
So I provided you with solid data from testers, who found many cases in which Linux was on par or faster than Windows.
You are aware that old consoles still play games, right? My PS4 still plays all my PS4 games and lets me stream PS5 games to from my living room to my bedroom. My Xbox 360 still plays games just fine last time I checked (last June or so). Getting rid of old consoles doesn’t make sense unless you absolutely have to have the latest tech and also don’t have much storage space.
From what I’ve seen so far from people I know who run Valve Indexes, Linux SteamVR performance is pretty poor compared with Monado+OpenComposite. Hopefully this situation changes with the release of the Frame, in which case I (and likely others) will be revamping the SteamVR package and NixOS modules as Monado may not fully support it for some time.
Tl;dr: Run Monado w/ OpenComposite for the Index, it runs way better.
Dropping back here to say that I have been playing around with Monado + OpenComposite + WlxOverlay and while it's been plenty janky, it has actually usable performance when it works.
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