I understand that.
I upvote insightful, educational or newsworthy content and downvote clickbait. Especially YouTube clickbait.
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
I understand that.
I upvote insightful, educational or newsworthy content and downvote clickbait. Especially YouTube clickbait.
Way back in the late XX century.
Oh look, Netscape Navigator is back.
They used to say that every product evolves until it can send mail. In that sense, this is now a mature product.
Of course nowadays no product is finished without built-in LLM functionality, so I’ll wait for that
Inertia is an immensely powerful force.
You can and should use whatever OS fits your use case. Right tool for the job and all that.
What you should not do is post a clickbait video to trigger the penguins into giving you views.
How often are you going to be managing ports?
Just use any tool you like, all they do is fiddle with the Kernel’s filter table.
We played Doom on MS DOS. It was hugely popular because it was a breakthrough for PC gaming. So nothing to do with Linux.
We do what we must because we can.
Hang on, that is a single player game? I now auto-discard AAA games up front because most of them are online multiplayer affairs with fancy in-game items to purchase and silly anti-cheat gimmicks that give Linux users a hard time.
I might look into buying this one, then.
My favorite way of reviving ancient 32 bit hardware is installing Haiku. It’s such a cool little OS, even if it can’t do all the tasks modern Linux can.
Xubuntu is still my distro of choice.
Removing snap and installing flatpak is two commands away.
This is the only game to have a permanent shortcut on my desktop.
I play it with some modern tweaks and mods. It’s a sure way to get my quick dose of gaming rush.
Once level up enough you’ll be writing a GRUB replacement yourself. Now that would be a massive achievement.
I’ve just built it from source to check it out.
Looks great, all the included apps work fine. I seem to only be able to open one app at the time and can’t find any way to close it or change to a different one, but that may be a problem on my setup.
I still haven’t tried any 3rd party apps.
Achievement unlocked.
If you can fix it you unlock another one. If you manage to boot the system without using a rescue USB pen you unlock another one.
The damn thing Just Works™. That’s why the developers aren’t being pestered. It’s a pretty great piece of software.
Every couple of years I install other desktops to check out what the cool guys use nowadays, then go right back to XFCE.
It’s like having a hot cup of tea on a cold day while sitting in a comfy chair by the fire with your slippers on.
I remember a sepia monitor being used with an early IBM PC clone, it was not black and white or amber, and it was not an anti glare protection. I remember that detail because the phosphor tint was very different from the standard black and white TVs of the time.
I can confirm they existed but any other details have long left my memory.
There are resources out there to learn exactly what’s going on, and the process is not too complex.
I’ve recovered a bunch of nuked MBR records and broken boot partitions myself, and maybe things UEFI added some complexity, but it’s not hard if you have a live USB ready and know the appropriate conjurations.
Most of the fun comes from self centered arrogant companies that make monocultural software, blatantly ignoring that other OSs may already be installed.
I had erased that information from my memory. Also it took a long time for Linux to gain USB support, then a long time to get WIFI (also because of the cheap vendors that used windows drivers to do the heavy lifting). Yeah, it was a very uphill struggle, with Microsoft actively pushing against Linux (remember the ‘Linux is a virus’ narrative?) I’m amazed we made it this far.