2315586f No.3771971
>>3771970My mistake its not being bought by activision/microsoft. Its being lead by former activision
As Discord is going public (so investors can ruin it)
0e7efdba No.3771976
>>3771971jason citron finally scraped enough CP out of the discord servers so he can retire comfortably into a goon cave for the rest of his life
20db41d7 No.3772001
>>3771971dunno how you can ruin dickcord more than it is
bc870ff6 No.3772039
>>3771761Quite frankly, I could easily have stayed with XP, which provided me with everything I needed.
f22b4676 No.3772113
>>3772111Steam runs natively as a software package for Linux. It doesn't magically run Windows games, so for everything else Windows related, check out the Wine project. It has come a long way. I have never set up Wine for Second Life, though. Can't help you there. Do some searches.
That screenshot features the KDE Plasma desktop. It packs a lot of function, along with some eye candy UI design.
Get Linux Mint. Others have given reasons why, so I won't rehash. The default desktop for Mint is Cinnamon (last I saw, solid choice), but they have KDE editions. This is Fedora, which is the community edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). I'm getting familiar so I can get certified.
I'm old enough to remember it was called "K Desktop Environment". I initially got exposed to it by exploring Slackware as a middle schooler. I'd quietly print how-tos and manuals in the computer lab. The admins never got me in trouble for using the printer without permission.
0dccc9e4 No.3772115
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1kann5y/i_updated_our_password_cracking_table_for_2025/18 characters huh?
First password line of defence
123123123123123123 / f*8f^l3@T&d!6H%1x# / 987987987987987987
Second password line of defence
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA / ABABABABABABABABAB / ABCABCABCABCABCABC
Questions: What color is my underwear? m4u4hd0g1eizb*bl1ndshecan'2Ce4
0dccc9e4 No.3772116
>>3772115What is my password?
Mypasswordisnumber1
Muhpasswordisnumberone
Mvhp4*csh0w3r*dich1n*0m8ur*w^m
gonna have to make it more cryptic
0b003615 No.3772124
>>3772113> Steam runs natively as a software package for Linux. It doesn't magically run Windows games, so for everything else Windows related, check out the Wine project.There is a widespread misconception about what Wine is, however. It never was and never will be a full replacement for the current winblows OS. From the beginning, it's goal has always been to provide a stable subset of Windows features. The purpose is so developers of new software can make their software compatible with Wine, if they choose.
Remember, new software is rarely made only for the latest and greatest winOS, except for microsquat software. Instead developers choose which older versions of the OS, along with the newest, they are aiming their software for. Wine provides an additional platform they can include, if they want.
20db41d7 No.3772141
>>3772115most of my passwords are W#rew0lf or some combination
547c41df No.3772157
I have one master password to unlock my built in password locker so all I need to remember is one passphrase.
IAmTh3V3ryM0d3l0fAM0d3rnMaj0rG3n3ral!
Good luck cracking that in 3 attempts.
0dccc9e4 No.3772163
Ordinary language: I have a ver tiny pee pee
Encryption: e4e*h4ve*4*V3r1e*tie*kn3e*pe4*p3a
0dccc9e4 No.3772164
Or try this one;
my Indian men are beta males hiding in the basement.
M1e^yn*d3e^4nd*m1n^ar4*b3t4^m4l3z*h1d1nn^1n*d4h^b4zm&nt
20db41d7 No.3772338
>>3772331signing into microsoft is a pain enough.
b7f8a359 No.3772378
>>3772331It’s more social engineering, of the news-speak variety enabling a dumbing down of the public to slip back door controls of your life. .
If you don’t know your passwords that means someone else will. That means someone else will have COMPLETE CONTROL of your accounts. It’s not a theory, pic related.
70ab9f73 No.3772394
>>3772388
They're doing this by default. Based on what I heard you can opt-out (for now), but it certainly will affect everyone, not just businesses.
Same with full-drive encryption. I use a desktop PC that won't get lost or stolen on the street. I don't want that crap on a workstation.
A year ago I helped someone recover a fried Win11 laptop that BSOD'd on every boot, even in safe mode. First Windows PC in literally 30 years I was unable to fix without a clean re-install. Wouldn't boot Linux from a USB drive, either. Thankfully, it had a removable SSD that wasn't encrypted, so I was able to pop it into a Linux system and clone the drive.
Told me everything I need to know, so I will NEVER use Win11.
Alas, I can't get the latest Mint to boot on my PC for some stupid reason, so… dunno what I'm going to do to rid myself of Win7.
41e7385c No.3772530
>>3771815
> NixOS is not that.
If by using Linux you mean spending hours installing stuff and configuring, then yes, NixOS is not what you want.
Compare:
"- Oh right, I didn't install Gimp yet.
- APT/dnf install Gimp.
- I'm missing the geek fonts, fuck !
- Install geek fonts.
- Ah right, need to add this plugin.
- Download from 3rd party website.
- Put in directory.
- Write shell wrapper to start Gimp with your plugin dir.
- Use Gimp
"
And
"
- Download your home-manager stuff from Git/share/google/etc.
- home-manager switch
- Start Gimp with fonts and plugin installed.
"
6fd4cea3 No.3772713
>>3772638
The official disto repositories never have the latest versions and to get access to the repositories that do, you have to upgrade the entire OS to the nightly version and then suffer people breaking your shit by updates all the time.
The whole concept of upgrading your operating system just to get the browser updated to the latest version tells you how much of a pile of shit it is.
422c89cc No.3772745
I pity Linux users who write stupid shit like Op does, it's the same issue as every attempt humanity has made to create a free utopistic society, they always failed because:
1) Nobody wants to do the shitty jobs.
2) Nobody wants to work more without being paid extra.
3) Nobody likes having their free time/will being taken away.
Do you think all those Linux distros or free open source projects would had reached industry standards if it wasn't for corporations backing them up? Blender received MILLIONS from corporations, the open source community can't accomplish shit without their backing, maybe a 1-5% did, but you keep deluding yourselves that "you're running the world" and dunking on corporations, AH.
Then there's the issue of creating a real Adobe alternative for Linux, all those lists of free/paid alternatives on the internet are bullshit, they're okay for freelancers/home use, but are unusable for industrial use. FYI I tried every freaking open source encoder on the planet (ffmpeg, vidcoder, handbrake, etc.), but NONE could use 56/112 CPU cores on a single video, but Adobe Media Encoder did. Photoshop uses 56 cores out of 112 and took about 5 seconds or less to compress a PNG from 11.4MB to 9.15MB, while FileOptimizer used 1 core out of 112 and took 12 minutes and 49 seconds but did a better compression of 9.05MB, not worth it for this little gain. But most importantly, the whole freaking Adobe ecosystem, all of their apps can seamlessly exchange information between them, if I wanna edit a picture in a PDF I can do it directly, on Adobe Acrobat I right click on the picture > "Edit with Photoshop" > Save and it's already there, I can CTRL+C and CTRL+V anything from any of their apps, there're no barriers, no need to waste time exporting/importing/saving to other formats.
The only way to really beat Adobe is for every of those different open source communities to unite and follow a common goal and create an ecosystem like the creative cloud from Adobe, but it's not happening anytime soon because everyone wants to do their own thing, unless guess what, a corporation intervenes and pays them to do the boring and souless crap nobody wants.
Until then, Windows will have it's place, just like Linux have it's place, a lot of stuff takes forever to compile and make it work on Windows but in Linux takes 5 minutes, the point is, trying to do Windows things on Linux, is just being a masochist with too much free time.
635a9027 No.3772749
>>3772745>Do you think all those Linux distros or free open source projects would had reached industry standards if it wasn't for corporations backing them up?>doesn't know about Red Hat, Canonical, etcBro, you're retarded. Free software doesn't mean no one is getting paid. Free software doesn't even mean that it has to be given away for free, though it often is. Free as in freedom, not free beer.
Let's use furry porn as an analogy. Sexyfur's business model is akin to what Microsoft does. Bernal pays artists to make the most vanilla, broad-appeal, furry porn. Then he charges furries to access it and wages an eternal battle against piracy. Commission artists' business model is akin to free software. They get paid to create a work of art, and most want their art to be shared and spread far and wide. Because the artwork advertises their talents and nets them more commissions.
422c89cc No.3772752
>>3772749Misrepresenting my argument to make me more attackable, you think I don't know about commercial Linux distros? Who cares about them anyway, since my point is that NO LINUX DISTRO would be usable without corporate backing, you think Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch are not receiving support from corporations? It's called working for a COMMON INTEREST.
>Free as in freedom, not free beer.Freedom my ass, most Linux distros are under a GPL-V3 license, a disease that infects anything it touches and deprives people of owning what they create in the name of freedom, if they even dare using 0,1% of it in their product, even if you worked your ass for years to create the entire 99,9% of it. So you know what corporations did? To avoid getting their intellectual property stolen, they started to adopt more and more cloud/subscription based services, as it allows them to circumvent GPL-V3 by offering it as a service not a product. Quite the irony that any attempt to shove freedom ideals down people's throats has always got the opposite effect.
9f644d0b No.3772755
>>3772752No one is shoving Linux down your throat. If you don't want to use it, fine. Now fuck off, retard.
422c89cc No.3772756
>>3772755Op opens Linux > Windows thread.
I show points where Windows > Linux
Hurr durr if u dun liek Leenoox stop uzing it!
Linux fanboy in a nutshell, typical retards who limits themselves to one OS and end up like pic related instead of using them based on the situation.
70ab9f73 No.3772844
I don't want yet another GUI.
The PC industry has been around for decades and is very mature. All this GUI "innovation" is exactly the reason why everything sucks.
Just make a desktop environment with a dynamic template engine and let me craft my own workflow. For some idiotic reason, even the Linux community refuses to do that.
9ab8b9de No.3772868
>>3772867Xerox did it first
8f76f1a2 No.3772879
>>3772844You just described Arch Linux.
You start off with a command line and install whatever UI you want, or create your own if you have the skills to do it.
aec04861 No.3772894
>>3772844>For some idiotic reasonIt's because you want a standard so people can make widgets and apps with notifications and other UI elements that integrate well with the desktop paradigm rather than having to deal with whatever way you broke the schema by trying to be "90's unique".
For instance, the fact that there wasn't a fully standard or even a "de-facto" standard way on Linux DEs to have little tray icons meant that you didn't have things like NetworkManager for the longest time unless you hacked one in yourself. Everybody did it differently, and it was all broken all the time, so people just said "fuck it" and pulled a terminal window open whenever they wanted to connect to a wifi or change some other setting.
aec04861 No.3772895
>>3772745>The only way to really beat Adobe is for every of those different open source communities to unite and follow a common goal and create an ecosystem like the creative cloud from Adobe, but it's not happening anytime soon because everyone wants to do their own thingThe reason why the Open Source community will never produce a real substitute for Adobe's software is because they're program developers, not photographers or film-makers or digital painters and artists. At those roles they're amateurs at best, and essentially don't know what they're doing.
The reason why Adobe did it, and why they were so successful, is because they went to the professionals and asked "What do you need? What do you want?", and the professionals explained to them what they're trying to do and how it's supposed to work. Actual industry standard stuff, replicating real workflows, actual well-researched theory, actual color matching, filtering… etc. It had to be right before the professionals would pay you any money for it because they're not fucking around. You can't just phone it in and call it done, and ignore user complaints for the next 20 years.
The developers behind GIMP and the like don't do that, because they're not trying to sell the thing to actual professionals. They're happy if it looks the part and sort-of does the same thing - they don't care whether they're actually implementing the "warming filter 82" correctly - it's just a button that makes the picture slightly more brown and who cares how or why.
aec04861 No.3772896
>>3772752>It's called working for a COMMON INTEREST.Also known as Business-to-Business development (B2B). For instance, the big electronics manufacturers dropped big bucks on improving KiCAD to the point that it now rivals its commercial EDA competitors - because they have a common interest in having customers who have access to good EDA software in order to buy their services.
Meanwhile, all the parties that develop Linux just for the sake of developing Linux are having a paradox: they're giving the product away for free. Instead, they're trying to sell "support" and customization, which means it's better for their bottom line to leave the base system broken - but then nobody will buy it because it's useless.
d0f9140e No.3772897
>>3772844And let's be real, when people say they're "making their own thing", the best they can actually accomplish is something that is going to resemble a 90's dorm room in style and functionality. It sucks, but because you made it and got used to it, you don't really notice how much it sucks.
Like, an assemblage of random shit that doesn't match in style, furniture made out of cinder blocks and random bits of rotting particle board, and stolen road signs. Also, hey, is that an airplane made out of beer cans hanging off the ceiling?
