Acknowledging the issues is a first good sign of trust. Executing is the other, so we’ll see how this will going. I personally lost trust and interest into Manjaro and switched away. From personal experience, there were technical issues (caused by Manjaro), and social issues (didn’t like the administration and project leader). But I hope they “recover” and be better, and survive.

I agree here. I also want to add, it depends on who maintains the Flatpak too. It’s not always the official developers.

I say as long as Ai exist, real programmers will always have a job and are not replaceable. YOLO Vibelords are replaceable, but only real programmers have the skill to go through the shit. That’s the most secure job ever if you ask me.

I feel sorry for anyone relying on Copilot.

I don’t understand the logic. Why would Proton make Linux dependent on Windows binaries? It does not make Linux dependent, but enables to use them. I don’t see any reason why Valve should demand devs to build Linux builds (plus Valve should not demand it, it should be a decision of the developers, Valve should not have that much power in my opinion).

if microsoft changed their apis wouldnt new games just not work on proton?

The same would happen with changes in Linux. And arguably it is worse on Linux. Windows binaries have a higher chance of working through WINE or Proton, than Linux binaries in the future. Plus developers only need one binary build, instead developing for Linux and Windows. Also if Microsoft changes their API, then only games affected using the new API would be affected. And changes and additions happen all the time and the Proton / WINE devs are working all the time too.

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Nobody can safe us from C++.

This is what I would think instinctively too, but still asked as I did not know if my instincts are correct. It’s like starting and stopping the car engine on every traffic light…

Why?

I desperately didn’t watch his video on his own channel, and waited for someone I trust to react to it. I just watched Gardiner Bryant’s reaction to it: On Invidious https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=W680f2iPu5o or YouTube directly https://youtu.be/W680f2iPu5o . (Edit: just a typo)

Yes, Linux based operating systems have still many issues. So does any other operating system. No one said a Linux based operating system is perfect. In fact, Windows has more issues than Linux, that is why people switch.

I have two different views and explanation what could have happened. Choose one. :D

The only benefit of doubt I can give Linus with this choice is, because its praised and recommended a lot. And that Linus is tackling this from a end user perspective who is searching the web and ChatGPT recommendation, coming of fresh from Windows without Linux experience. We all know Linus has Linux experience, but he might go the unexperienced route as a guide. And none of the websites doing these recommendations talk about the transitional phase PopOS is in right now.

But if I assume “bad” intentions, then he very well have made a risky choice by choice. Because he knows the other two will have good experience and then almost nothing controversial would happen = boring video, no interactions in the comment. He might have chose PopOS to boos his channel, not because he really really want to try PopOS again after he got burned so hard last time…

Off course he picks PopOS, because it bite him before. And off course PopOS is currently under a huge desktop environment change.

Pure black background makes it unreadable for me. When I encountered this on websites, i use the Firefox function to turn it into a black on white background theme, so my eyes don’t hurt reading longer text. Same logic applies to the terminal, especially when programming. I think pure black as a background shouldn’t be default. However I do actually appreciate darker tones as background, but its never pure black. It depends on the combination of colors for text (and on the rest of the system theme).