Admins of LinuxSucks now appear to be possibly trying to extend their dictatorship beyond "LinuxSucks", and appear to be trying to control any comments server-wide (like ye olde kings).

Their community harasses users/devs all day by calling them criminals, broke, control freaks, LiGNUts, claim they don't have jobs, posts weird anti-trans memes, and systematically bans everyone who doesn't agree with them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50982861

Fucking heroes 👏

Microsoft Office is a parasite holding people hostage with extortionate subscription fees

Madthumbs seems to think this time that abandoning Windows Gaming wouldn't have a lot of unintended consequence, that would disadvantage Microsoft more than Linux lol.

1. Xbox sales were down 70%... So, why would developers limit themselves exactly?
2. How do you think Customers and devs would react to more platform lock-in? Devs WANT to sell more games
3. Developers would likely dump DirectX entirely, and just use cross platform libraries (they already are). Devs aren't going to limit themselves to Xbox only. And, toolkits like Unity abstract a lot of the lower level graphics from the developer. So, it doesn't even matter
4. If it will kill gaming in Linux, it would kill it more in windows, and Microsoft would piss off customers. I'm not sure how this would be a brag...
5. The biggest online marketplace is Steam... No sane dev is going to limit themselves at this point to only 1 platform
6. The DirectX features Madthumbs mentions DOES NOT MATTER. There are 50 different ways to solve the same problem, using non-vulkan libraries (or even Vulkan Extensions). DirectX is simply 1 solution.
7. "Antitrust".. Again.. And, I guarantee that the EU would be unimpressed...
8. Theoretical scenarios like this, are exactly why gamers should consider different platforms..

This nonsense is based on the idea that DirectX (which is Windows/Xbox only) is critical to game developers. It is not. There is NOTHING gaming requires from DirectX specifically, or Microsoft.

It also shows a complete lack of delusion about how users or developers ACTUALLY think.

"Yay", I can lock my game down more so less people can play it or buy it, all to help XBOX sales!!!!

Epic games store is now also coming to Linux

Alongside Gog announcing Linux support is coming, GeForce now being released on Linux, and Steams excellent Linux support, it's going to be impossible to look past Linux as a serious gaming platform.

There's some major performance improvements coming to Linux kernel 7.3 which benefit almost everyone

Linux (Android) phones dominate 70% of the mobile phone market.

Its easy to pose with a crowd, but, when you pull out your phone, we all know what's actually under the hood..

Original Post: https://lemmy.world/post/50873545

Imaginary first world problems.. Again.

It takes a lot of delusions/lack of experience to imagine Linux is completely fragmented and uses completely different programs, daemons and configuration

1. Linux has used the same base commands (grep, cat, tail, etc) for decades. Longer than powershell (and longer than MacOS)
2. What "tutorial"? Bash learning one? What exactly are you "learning" in CLI? Unix scripting was part of my University course, and NOTHING has changed since doing it 20 years ago
3. All the major distros are using SystemD now, the freedesktop base,Pulseaudio (or pipewire) and the only distinction is generally package managers. But, even a lot of software is available on flatpak.
4. The real difference is configuration tools. The majority are the same. And, if you're doing learning server administration and struggle to differentiate a tutorial between SUSE Server and Ubuntu server, then you SHOULDN'T be administrating servers
5. Most Daemons are the same too (everyone uses Samba, etc)
6. There are literally GUI tools for mostly everything.
7. Any common distribution has EXCELLENT documentation regarding almost anything.
8. The claim that 1% of that help is malicious is laughable.

As per always, this post is lacking actual examples, of where people use CLI these days. Probably thats because in practice, there are very few that affect newbies that actually exist.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/56758054

This is yet another blatant case where Apple once again tries to screw developers. After mostly locking them into their own APIs and anti competitive OS.

In Linux, this wouldn't be possible at all. You don't even need to use specific hardware for development

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/55082309

Apple plans to remove most of Rosetta 2 early next year.

As a result, every App (except a few unmaintained games) which hasn't been recompiled for Apple Silicon will break.

Rosetta 2 is an Apple Intel to Apple Silicon (Arm) wrapper used during their Apple silicon transition.

Rosetta 1 was removed in 2011, breaking all PPC (non-universal) apps on Intel Apple Machines.

Whilst some in the community love to boast about "ABI compatibility", they sure don't seem to have any problem with every app breaking on new Apple hardware, or being forced to buy a new computer to use newer versions which may not include the old architecture compiled in...

It's likely only a matter of time until those games break too

That's the problem with an OS being exclusively in control by a single developer. The developer can hike licencing, and even add subscription costs in the future.

MacOS has the same issue (but even worse, they fully control the hardware too, so can take measures to even do things like make migration more difficult).

Linux is controlled by many vendors. If one hikes prices, you can switch to another and continue using your software

Not really my thing, but GeForce Now has an official stable client available via flatpak for Linux now.

This also means that games that were previously claimed don't run on Linux may be available now, and is yet another reason to use steam os instead of things like Armory and windows

In yet another demonstration that Madthumbs isn't a developer just repeating AI nonsense, they incorrectly state that API compatibility is 100% maintained everywhere except linux.

Maintaining 100% API compatibility isn't a good thing, and nobody (even Windows/MacOS), despite their claim maintains perfect compatibility.

The reason is:

1. Some API's have security issues and NEED to change
2. Some may even try to do too much, or have issues with race conditions.
3. Every OS has undocumented bugs in their API's. Projects like Wine found many Win32 API bugs they need to replicate and implement. If a bug is found, the question becomes: do you modify the API to mention the bug, or do you fix the bug... Or, do you deprecate the API because its ambiguous? Microsoft allegedly uses Quirks hardcoded for certain apps to handle this..
4. I'm not sure its a good thing to be "proud", that an API isn't evolving and improving.
5. The easiest way to maintain compatibility, is to simply not do any improvements.
6. API's don't break overnight. There is warning.. If a app hasn't received updates in 2-3 years, it shouldn't be used in an enterprise settings AT ALL

In regards to "ABI compatibility"

1. Apple charged CPU architecture 2x in the past 20 years. Some people who bought the Mac Pro literally only have 3 years of App support, and now their machine is junk. Rosetta 2 is going to be pulled completely soon, so NO Intel apps will work
2. Apple also switched to 64bit apps only on IOS at one point, and pulled every app from the market that wasn't compiled that way
3. Its such a serious issue, that the NVIDIA DGX Spark uses linux
4. So does the Steam Machine
5. So does Meta Quest
6. So do most servers
7. So do many TV's
8. So do most Mobile phones
9. So do most routers
10. In the kernel, a lot has moved to userspace (even DevFS moved to udev). Which basically means it doesn't matter

In case there was any doubt that Madthumbs has no idea wtf they're talking about, I'd say its confirmed..

Apple was literally on the verge of bankruptcy, until they decided to use the free / open source BSD kernel for MacOSX and switched to a free software base.

Windows NT also utilised a lot of BSD code / open source for their network stack too.

The reality is, the biggest OS systems rely on a lot of Open source code.

If BSD was less permissive, it's likely that MacOS wouldn't still be around, and that Windows NT networking would have been struggling a lot longer

Just remember guys. Windows having 2x control panels is NOT bloat. Either is having Notepad and Wordpad. Either is their new OneDrive app you can't remove, or the apps you remove but reinstall automatically

And on MacOS, never mind all the Apple crapware they install that gives them 5 different ways to profit from you. Yes, you will keep getting prompted to use an apple id, and you will like it. If your support client wants to install a remote desktop app, have fun stepping them through the multiple accessibility and other options needed to even be able to access their system. So convenient and productive..

Even more so when you don't want to use their app store. You sometimes need to drag things around, you sometimes need to click an install, sometimes its a zip, etc. So much more convenient than Flatpak..

But, having different Linux distro's? That is APPARENTLY "bloat". Because, somehow, if someone installs Linux Mint on their own computer, my fedora installation is affected

Absolute loony...

Linux is secure Because fewer people use it

Literally nobody makes this argument.. The argument they will make however is that it runs on the vast majority of internet servers, mobile phones and a large number of embedded devices. It's even more irrelevant because almost everyone owns multiple Linux devices

Governments too (such as the Chinese Government). The NSA has also made some sizeable contributions too

At one point, when Microsoft was being DDOS'ed in fact, they turned to (Linux) Akamai servers to defend them.

Linux has real permissions, so malware can’t do anything.

Nobody has made this argument since Windows XP.

Real threats are: Installing something malicious because you trust the wrong repo. Your web browser being exploited. Your credentials being phished. Your supply chain being compromised. Your SSH keys being stolen. Your flatpak/snap/appimage containing bundled libraries with unpatched CVEs.

All things that can affect windows (in Windows, static linking also exists on portable builds, and games have often bundled libraries).

Flatpak's/Snap are sandboxed/restricted. So, it's not as much a "real threat".

Also, you can trust the wrong website in windows and download a dodgy exe. It happens a lot..

If you run it, it runs as you. “You” can access your files, browser cookies, SSH keys, cloud tokens, password manager vaults, and personal data. Most attacks don’t need root; they need your access. I’d rather be surrounded by humble idiots than people who think they’re smarter than they are (over-confident in their OS).

Incorrect. A lot of things are moving to flatpak and snap, because it's sandboxed. And, tools like SELinux/AppArmor are also used on most distro's, to limit access. They run as you, but are restricted.

Everything comes from the repo, so it’s safe.

People don't make the arguments made here. The arguments they will make however, is that similar to the Apple App Store or Windows Store, where software is automatically updated regularly.

Whereas, random DMG's on MacOS and exe/msi files on windows generally don't automatically update with the OS. So, need their own implementation. Windows has only recently started adopting something similar to the Linux package management system (winget)

From: https://lemmy.world/post/50307234?scrollToComments=true

There was a real, reproducible era where simply having crowdstrike installed could cause Windows to Blue screen of death (with or without ECC RAM)!

8 million windows computers saw Windows almost instantly crash by doing nothing other than simply having Crowdstrike installed, and downloading the signatures

This happened because instead of exercising caution with kernel modules and proper auditing by Microsoft and the crowdstrike team, Crowdstrike rushed through multiple signature updates a day.

This is the risk of normalising kernel modules with deep integration into the kernel which updates their behaviour multiple times a day and persisting the new behaviours. Furthermore, as it was likely closed source (even to Microsoft), only basic testing could likely be performed.

The only solution was to open Safe Mode and manually remove the dodgy signature.

Could we argue this is a bit more critical than a library causing issues for VLC on: https://lemmy.world/post/50098276 ? Probably... I'm unaware of 8.5 million Linux computers (or servers) dropping offline simultaneously from a single update