You’re saying “'Abolish all money” is anarcho-capitalist propaganda?" LOL, that’s significantly stupider than anything I ever expected to read. Congratulations. 🤡

Quit posting ancap propaganda.

The way this sort of thing would actually improve is by government regulation.

Half Life: Blue Shift already happened.

(I appreciate the Flintstones joke, though.)

Thanks, I had the same question.

Like, if people had to spin their own Linux setup out of open-source repos — some on GitHub, some one SourceForge, etc — it’d be a lot harder.

There’s a name for that: it’s called “Linux From Scratch.”

I mean, at the time when turbo buttons were a thing (and I was a kid who didn’t know much about computers yet), I incorrectly thought that too. My own computers never had one though, and I’d like to think that if one had, I would’ve eventually figured out that it worked opposite to how the label implied.

Turbo was on by default. Pressing the button to turn it off made the computer run slower to emulate an 8086, so that software coded to calculate time based on instruction cycles rather then using a proper real time clock function wouldn’t run faster than the intended speed.

An 8088 wouldn’t have a turbo button since it ran at the same speed as an 8086 to begin with.

(Also, SimCity 2000 required at least a 386.)

Why do you hate property rights?

I’m not defending cheating in online games or interfering with Valve’s service, but if you think the solution to stopping them is attacking “software hacking” in general as a concept, that juice ain’t worth the squeeze. “Software hacking,” fundamentally, is nothing more than modifying the operation of your computer, your property that you own. It’s no different than buying a physical paper book and then writing notes in the margin.

If you’re proposing disallowing people from doing that, you’re attacking the concept of property rights itself.

Unfamiliarity with the system should make people more inclined to read shit carefully, not less!

That’s just fucking common sense, not elitism, and I make absolutely zero apologies for it.

Right, that’s my point: when Linux gives a big ominous message, it’s because it’s actually important. If the distro hadn’t had that bug, it wouldn’t have given the big ominous message.

Remember, the bug wasn’t the warning message itself. The bug was removing the DE when installing Steam, which the message correctly warned about. The warning message was appropriate and warranted.

It is Windows, and only Windows, that mis-trains users to ignore warnings because it issues so many spurious ones for benign situations.

Computer users always get hit with big ominous warning messages that amount to nothing 99.9% of the time.

This is yet another instance of blaming Linux for Windows’ bad behavior.

To clarify for people not clicking through, he didn’t recommend dual booting because his install broke,

He absolutely did, at the very end of the video. It was in addition to other reasons, but it was there.

No. Doing things because you’re inexperienced is one thing, but reading a very strongly-worded and scary message that explicitly told him that it was about to break his system and then doing it anyway is on another level entirely.

You’re right that it’s Linux’s problem, but that doesn’t mean it’s Linux’s fault.

Hey, at least he’s up-front about it and didn’t type in yes, do as I say! like Other Linus did.

The other two main TL;DWs are that:

• He justifiably complained about PVP games having non-Linux-compatible kernel-level anti-cheat

• His benchmark testing showed a big performance difference between Windows and Linux on his system, which has an AMD Radeon 7900 XTX. Being an admitted noob, he didn’t notice that it was an unusual discrepancy and figured that worse gaming performance in Linux was “real,” but a bunch of folks in the comments are telling him that RDNA 3 drivers have a known issue that means the card probably isn’t running at full power and tweaking the settings can probably fix it.

It never ceases to amaze – no, that’s not the right word. It never ceases to dismay me how people so often work for free making mods for proprietary shit when they could be contributing to a Free Software game instead.

Man, I just bought a refurbished Pixel 7 for $160 for myself. If you think I’m buying a $400+ Steam Deck – let alone some other handheld PC that’s even more expensive – for my kids, you’re outta your damn mind!

I dunno, but I feel like posting this!

It hasn’t been “buggy as fuk” for at least half a decade. Why are you spreading misinformation?