loved the 90’s slackware era “oops i forgot to burn this with network drivers… and it was my only machine.”
do u remember when they warned you if you got the dot pitch setting wrong for your CRT it could destroy it? I was like wtf?
Are you sure it was dot pitch and not dot clock?
Dot pitch on a crt might make the image look bad (trying to draw onto the shadow mask) but I doubt it would damage it.
Setting an invalid dot clock could damage some crts. But most of the modern (read from mid 90s on) would just go to the power save mode when they got a clock they couldn’t use. The warning did still remain on the xfree86 configuration guides though.
Showing my age perhaps.
Average Linux user: “we could just use the Windows totally-not-an-emulator!”.
(They’re this close to getting the point while saying it.)
I’m far away. What is the point?
The point is: If “just simulate a Windows environment” is the best thing you could come up with, chances are that Windows is what you should use anyway.
I’d rather simulate some Windows function calls on a system I control than install Windows and give up all control over my system to a foreign corporation.
You give up all control over your system to other US corporations though, like Red Hat (who are - and should be held, IMO - responsible for systemd) and Microsoft (who contribute quite some code to the kernel). The only system you control is a system you write, I’m afraid.
Red Hat: Hi here’s some tools we made, you can see how every single one of them works in full detail and you can modify them as you see fit, and distribute modified copies.
Microsoft: Hi we peddle proprietary spyware and we aren’t even secretive about it.
Basically the same thing?
Also systemd rocks, and the kernel is widely audited OSS, Microsoft will have a very hard time sneaking in anything malicious.
systemd rocks
I disagree.
the kernel is widely audited OSS
Minus the proprietary blobs, that is.
“Everyone can see the code” does not mean that everyone understands what’s going on, by the way. The X server had had a security hole for 23 years just a while ago. Could it be that “it’s OSS” and “many people read and understand what’s going on” are not the same thing?
The fact that software contains vulnerabilities is not the same as the fact that the software has been specifically designed to monitor your activities. I don’t understand what your point is, seems like you’re trying to say that the difference in the surveillance performed by Microsoft and the one performed by Linux is irrelevant.
Setting aside the fact that that is not even remotely true, do you think Linux = Red Hat? What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?
I’ve only ever seen redhat used by government and some corporations. As far as the broader community goes (especially the foss community), they are a pretty minor player.
It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days. They’ve always been pretty evil, but now they’ve gone so far off the deep end they’re even driving away people who have been all-in on Microsoft their whole lives. Even non-tech people are getting simply fed up with all of the spying and intrusive, AI-infested bullshit. Linux marketshare has been steadily increasing over the last couple of years, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon. And all of it is, ultimately, because Windows is forcing people away.
Please stop feeding the troll, for crying out loud.
