Why don't we have an open source anti-cheat protocol that is a demon-level service. Everyone hates kernel anti-cheat, but only because they're close source, so why don't we have one that's open source. Seems like a simple solution.

I still use VirtualBox with Windows 10 to launch all the Affinity products because GIMP is so bad. And for browser fingerprint protection, e.g. chrome (ungoogled) on windows, because no browser fakes it. Not mullvad, Tor or Brave.

It probably never will

Yeah. I am forced to keep one windows computer around for MasterCAM. I likely won't be able to pay to reup that license, though so I might be forced to try to make FreeCAD or similar work.

Yeah, FLAC. EAC has numerous checks to make sure the rip was flawless. I then either listen from my computer on speakers attached to a stereo, or I stream via Plex/Jellyfin. I have wired and wireless headphones and earbuds I use depending on what I’m doing when listening.

I already had lots of CDs before streaming was a thing, but still (more often than I’d expect) I come across albums that aren’t on any streaming platform.

In the same boat. Been practicing GIMP but 25 years of PS is difficult to break away from =/ plus god forbid colleagues put in an ounce of effort in meeting to understand that PS isnt the only way to crop a damn image

I would preach about Affinity, but it doesn’t work on Linux either. Productivity apps in general are a lot more problematic than games.

Oh interesting! What do you use for that and what is the result? Flac or other?

If Adobe would put its products on Linux I wouldn’t need Windows (or Mac) anymore. Unfortunately a lot of my work still requires being able to open things in Indesign and XD.

Exact Audio Copy

I own a lot of CDs.

EasyAntiCheat. Not sure why it'd stop them, because Proton has an EAC runtime.

Whats EAC again? I'm always eager to learn what possible show stoppers exist for people.

EAC is the only thing holding me back, and I don’t trust it on a VM since it does some deep hardware voodoo.

It’ll probably live on its own machine I only use for that purpose.

So he wanted features merged outside maintenance window again? I'm a bit inclined to think, Kent doesn't really want to play by the rules at all

I still don't understand why something so unstable and far from ready had to be put into the kernel upstream. How did Kent manage that? Is he really that good with words? Reading his messages on LKML, it really doesn't seem so. No-one is a god programmer, but was his code so convincing, his practices so good, his testing so thorough, that it being unstable could be ignored?

Anti Commercial-AI license

Kent Overstreet

Who's Kent?

My neighbor was my last convert. Elderly couple that just need Facebook and the ability to print mundane things.

It was a Windows 11 AIO that got a virus and I gave them the look, man speech

Look, man I got this system at the house I could bring over, really utilitarian, no frills but also nothing wasted, it'll do everything you need, it's called Linux.

Oh, you've heard of it, ok, well...

Only on a site like this you would read something like "yeah, just get an hot air station and fix the smd, ezpz." lol

Oh well good point: your company is the only context that exists.

Right to repair an all sure, but like, who's stopping you from fixing those USB ports and battery now? Pretty sure you'd have RMA'd them if it qualified, so why not just fix it yourself? USB ports are easy to resolder with a Hot air rework station, trickier with a soldering iron but totally possible. Batteries are usually available on ifixit.

Debian is not the most easy to install distro even Linus Torvalds struggled with the install process at one point. You cant compare a complicated distro directly to windows as that would be cherry-picking try installing Mint instead if you want it to be as straightforward as possible.

It’s throwing out perfectly good hardware earlier than need be. That’s indefensible.

I've had way more issues installing Linux than Windows (since Windows 2000 at least).

Just recently attempted to install Debian on a laptop which has had Debian installed numerous times in the past, and it simply puked.

And I've been in IT for decades. Your average user will find it more challenging.

I've never had to buy new hardware for a Windows upgrade.

Business buys new hardware on a cycle anyway, and upgrades OS on a cycle too, so this is a tempest in a teapot.