I’d you want immutability and things that just works, snaps are the exact opposite of what he needs. I’m gearing up to swap away from Ubuntu for the same reasons as him, and the snap ecosystem is utterly fucked and accelerating my timetable daily.

I’ve never seen something so damn broken, and it gets more so every update. It’s gotten to the point of where snap store will just straight up log me out of my session out of the blue when it finds an update so it can install it, losing all of my work.

GF: “Did you always have a gun?”

Anon: “I always carry”

GF: “Even on our dates? Did you think I was gonna rob you or something?”

Anon: “Muggers don’t wait until it’s convienient for you to get robbed, you know?”

GF: “Oh that makes sense.”

He’s checking the bollard for scratches after a nazi drove a u-haul into it

Now it can make shit up and gaslight you with MULTIPLE senses!

That’s a really terrible misrepresentation of what happened.You should probably investigate this matter more. This article is supremely biased and basically outright wrong.

The quote you gave, for example, is an almost cartoonist level of distortion of the facts.

This just in, corporate apologist media thinks Internet Archive should go away.

Why is this trash here?

In the case of Discourse, a hardware engineer is an embarrassment not deserving of a job if they can’t hit 90% of the performance of an all-time-great performance team but, as a software engineer, delivering 3% the performance of a non-highly-optimized application like MyBB is no problem. In Knuth’s case, hardware engineers gave programmers a 100x performance increase every decade for decades with little to no work on the part of programmers. The moment this slowed down and programmers had to adapt to take advantage of new hardware, hardware engineers were “all out of ideas”, but learning a few “new” (1970s and 1980s era) ideas to take advantage of current hardware would be a waste of time.

You can really tell this guy is some hardware design engineer at nvidia that has absolutely no fucking clue about how real-world user space programming works. Also I like how 74% slowly kept getting inflated until it became 90%.

Like, this dude is trying to claim that fucking Donald Knuth himfuckingself cannot figure out some new computer hardware.

Multiple processors working in concert is not, and never has been, a cure-all. It’s highly situational and generally not useful.

What’s dumb is that, as a Systems Design Engineer at NVIDIA, Dan Luu should know that. After all, how has SLI been doing recently?

That said, yes, of course, web dev bloat is absolutely out of control, and slow websites absolutely have nothing to do with hardware or network. That’s a culprit of bad frameworks, horrific amounts of ads/trackers/bullshit, and honestly just general lack of programming fundamentals in the web dev space. Might as well call them web technicians and really ruffle some feathers. :P

Possibly, but I’ll just transcribe it here for screenreaders and people who can’t see through the pixelation:

Linux Error Messages That Go Hard Starter Pack

ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
   sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) sysv-rc (due to sysvinit) util-linux
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 198 to remove and 3 not upgraded
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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(12/19) upgrading linux-raspberrypi
WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted.
         You probably just broke your system. Congratulations.
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait...

[   0.895799] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
on unknown block(0,0)

  _______________________________
< Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! >
  ------------------------------
            \    ^__^
              \  (xx)\_________
                 (__)\         )\/\
                  U   ||-----w |
                      ||      ||

Out of memory: Kill process 15745 (postgres) score 10 or sacrifice child

np

gdb gives you waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than a stack trace.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport

It intentionally acts as an intercept for such things, so that core dumps can be nicely packaged up and sent to maintainers in a GUI-friendly way so maintainers can get valuable debugging information even from non-tech-savvy users. If you’re running something on the terminal, it won’t be intercepted and the core dump will be put in the working directory of the binary, but if you executed it through the GUI it will.

Assuming, of course, you turn crash interception on- it’s off by default since it might contain sensitive info. Apport itself is always on and running to handle Ubuntu errors, but the crash interception needs enabled.

Imagine if you knew the most basic foundational features of the language you were using.

Next we’ll teach you about this neat thing called the compiler.

looks like a cherry starburst to me, which are pretty common to have the wrapper stick to them.

There’s GUI front-ends for things like apt that are pre-installed on many Linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu. And windows has been moving towards trying to have the same thing. And yes, also they’ve got an apt of their own.

You… can? That’s been a thing for ages. Windows has literally been taking queues from Linux on how to makes installing packages and apps easier.

The reason I care about the technical implementation shortcomings is because they don’t go away. They don’t magically fix themselves over time, they snowball, especially when the maintainers refuse to admit they’re shortcomings and insist on doubling down on them.

As time goes on, new functionality and technologies are going to emerge, and you need to be able to fold those, cleanly and reliably, into your codebase. And frankly, wayland’s devs are having trouble getting past and even current technologies implemented cleanly into their codebase, because they’re made architectural decisions that exclude those technologies. This is just going to be more and more of a problem as time goes on, imo.

• Screen recording CAN work… if client devs go out of their way to work around wayland, like OBS did. That is not a long term solution, or even a solution we should be encouraging.
• yes
• personally I have crashes on wayland, none on X11. even when x11 does crash though, you just drop to terminal. Whatever is locking your system up, it might not actually be X11 itself. Wayland, you do actually have to reboot, it’s a standing architectural issue.
• nice
• I’m on ubuntu gnome w/ AMD gpu, and they straight up do not work. You can set a global hotkey for the OS/wayland itself, but there is no way to set a global hotkey for/from a program, e.g. set a key combo for ‘clip last 30 seconds’ like I can in X11. Again, conscious design decision by wayland devs that breaks a lot of use cases. I think there’s some third party plugin for wayland that fixes this, but I shouldn’t need the wayland equivalent of nexusmods to get my window manager working. This ain’t skyrim. :P
• sleep and hibernate are pretty close to the same thing- sleep mode saves your current state to RAM, hibernate stores it to disk. hibernate uses less power draw and recovers cleanly from power loss. These days I think most front-ends call ‘hibernate’ sleep, and don’t actually provide sleep as an option, because it’s imo better. I meant hibernate, and I should have clarified, because linux does actually allow you to pick and choose.
• some appimages work, but it’s because they work around wayland. These days there’s a package you can include in your app image to hep with that iirc, but again that’s kind of dumb.
• redshift is f.lux. Basically, eye strain relief.
• toolbars, utilities, etc. For example, I have a program that adds an overlay to my screen for discord, so when someone talks in discord their avatar pops up on the left side of my primary screen. This not only doesn’t work in wayland, it can never work in wayland, because it intentionally refuses to allow programs to set their own screen position, control whether they appear over other things, or even know where on the screen they are on the screen.
• GUI applications with sudo, yes. Basically, in wayland sudo has to pipe the password arround because it doesn’t support SUDO_ASKPASS, so they work around it by piping it around with a generated shell. This vastly increases the attack surface of sudo: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe-pyqt5-gui/commit/eb2d6e5145fb8571414bda57676084b7f13b94e5#diff-23cb15995f1502beebb38433bfa83204a5f45b376eaf88e2e41a0d8a1cd44722R290

Ubuntu Gnome on AMD, actually.

screen recording/sharing, automation, it’s inherant fragmentation because it decided that basic window server functionality should be implemented on the DE, basically every driver but a super small subset of drivers for devices the devs care about which do not include nvidia drivers which are a huge portion of the userbase, the absolutely ridiculous architectural choices that intentionally blocks basic functionality, and furthermore causes a crash to completely freeze your computer which forces restart, a complete failure to understand standard monitor EDID, and a refusal to allow you to set them yourself (to this day my monitor, a bog standard 144hz 1440p LG monitor, is not supported by wayland), no global hotkeys, broken sleep mode, breaks appimages entirely, no redshift, the developers made sweeping design decisions that don’t work and then get pissy and throw temper tantrums in the mailing lists when people point out that they don’t work, heavily moving away from portability and modularity (the devs think nobody uses BSD?!), windows can’t raise themselves or keep themselves raised, or absolutely position themselves, so toolbars/utilities/etc can just go fuck themselves, sudo gets broken and has to pipe passwords everywhere as a workaround which means sudo has increased attack surface on wayland, and color management is non-existent.

And this is just shit I have personally ran into the last time I tried it, which was about 4 months ago.

Something wayland lacks but Xorg has?

Basic functionality. Anyone that actually thinks Wayland is ready either doesn’t use it or is just straight coping. Maybe it’ll get there, but… honestly, probably not.

Come back to me when I don’t need to treat wayland like a bethesda game and install a bunch of mods, plugins, packages, and do a bunch of other crap just to get basic functionality.

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