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  • supplier guaranteeing all the hardware is supported

    This is really harder said than done. Its implications are often quite deep and misunderstood.
    The simplest example I can give is razer backlit keyboards and mice, which gamers seem to love. Razer’s software makes them truly shine and that software just isn’t available on linux. Open source alternatives exist and they do the job, just not as well as official software does. I do hope windows gaming refugees wont be swayed back when they discover not all hardware will “just work”, or at least work just as well as on windows. With Bazzite being a “gamer” distro, I wonder if they made any strides here, though I highly doubt it, else we’d see it propagate to other distros.

    In my own experience, I was sad to see no software support from canon, which meant I couldn’t transfer files from my camera to my PC via wifi. Its a small price to pay, but it needs to be payed non the less.



  • Well yeah… until frontends (instance) can be decentralized and requests sent to fragmented multiple hosts, this is how it works. One centralized frotend, connected to a more federated backend. Afaik, federation traffic should probably not go through cloudflare, but I’m no expert on that, maybe .world admins can comment.
    Use a different instance to access the network.



  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe cookie dilemma
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    Should have been handled on protocol level. Cookies get priority levels, set browser to only accept required cookies and done. Everyone just wanted to do it the easy way… add a banner and ask the user… or dont even make the banner, call a third party library that does it for you… and has its own tracking code… yay!














  • I don’t know how it is in the states, but fast food places here give you a small beeper with a number on it, when your order is ready, it beeps/vibrates and you pick your order up. No one shouting names, no overhearing names, no losing attention when a device in your hand starts beeping/vibrating. The number on it serves as a secondary backup. I’ve not been in a place where name giving was required. Different culture I guess.



  • You know, Linux is great. I love it. I run a lot of things on it. But it can be a frustrating experience. Simply put, its not a one to one replacement and it will simply not fit into some peoples lives like windows has up to this point.

    My personal experience with linux desktops (some arch flavors and fedora) combined with Wayland and an Nvidia card have been pretty abysmal.
    On prior Fedora’s and Endeavor, I had Firefox crashing constantly, no clue why. Crashes reduced this week with the release of Fedora 43 but its still not stable. This is something I’ve not experienced under windows ever since they rewrote firefox like… 10 years ago now?
    With KDE plasma, its system apps like settings crash. I’ve not had to restart my PC with the physical restart button under windows for quite a while now. But when using KDE, the whole thing freezes and will just not respond.
    I’ve tried playing some CS2 literally today and couldn’t make it through a match without a crash.
    Vendor software for hardware devices (drivers) is missing linux support a lot of the time and while I appreciate open source alternatives, they just don’t cover the edge cases I had. As an example: razer rbg lighting effects stacking is non existent on linux. Open RBG works… but its not good enough.

    I’m sooo ready to use KDE Plasma on a daily basis and really want to, but the stability I want is just not there yet. If you have simple use cases, don’t stray too far onto the edge, possibly have older hardware and don’t need Wayland or don’t use Nvidia, I’d definitely recommend it. I use Mint on my 14 year old laptop just fine, but its got an old ass nvidia card, uses x11 with cinnamon and I don’t game on it. Stable as a rock. I use Debian (headless) on my home server and it hasn’t crashed with a 3 year uptime.
    Desktop linux on a gaming machine… I’ve just been disappointed.

    Sorry for the dump. I’m voicing my frustration out of love for linux, not out of hate.