Get a cheap desktop and run Windows on it. Remote Desktop into that machine to run your app.

You can use TwinGate or Tailscale to access your desktop from anywhere.

“Mac”iavellian. I see what you did there.

Yes please. 2013 MacBook Pro? I use a 2013 MacBook Air every day. I am sure your MacBook Pro is much better.

They are selling them. Look into ESU (Extended Security Updates).

$30 a year.

I was for many of us. So, they were not totally wrong.

I would rather see them fail in the open market. Things are going well.

I favour Arch because I prefer everything I want to install to be in the package repo and for it to be a version actually new enough to use.

But I actually use EndeavourOS because it is 99% Arch but installs easily with full hardware support on everything I own (including a T2 Macbook). It never fails me.

And now I have realized that I can use Distrobox to get the Arch repos and the AUR on any dostro I wish.

So, I now have Chimera Linux on 4 machines because it is the best engineered distro in my view. The system supervisor, system compiler, and C library matter to me (not to everyone). All these machines have the AUR on them (via distrobox). Best of all worlds.

You are going to want to use the AUR, so you need yay or paru (not just pacman). You can either still use pacman (for non-AUR stuff) or just one of the others for everything.

They all use the same switches.

That happens to the commercial folks too. It is just the nature of the adoption curve.

It is the same with price. A few will say that your product is already worth 10x the price. Most will say it’s too expensive. If you drop the price, a few more will see the value. Lots won’t.

More users is more users though. It is not something to get discouraged about. The advantage with Open Source is that, as long as it is useful to some, we have almost an infinite amount of time to expand it to new audiences. Baby steps pay off for Open Source.

Agreed. At the cost of Adobe software, it is amazing that we cannot get a Kickstarter to fund software that closes the gap.

$250 one time from 4000 people would be a million dollars. Isn’t it $300 a year for Photoshop?

RHEL 9 defaulted to Wayland in 2022. RHEL 10 will not even include Xorg.

I agree that businesses lag, often by years. So the fact that RHEL is so far along in the Wayland transition kind of shows how out-of-date the anti-Wayland rhetoric is.

Are you a Debian Stable user perhaps? It feels like you have been trapped on an island alone and are not aware that WWII is over.

Your point is that it is still rough and then you bring up a bunch of stuff that is no longer an issue.

NVIDIA in particular is a solved problem with both explicit sync and open source kernel modules as the default from NVIDIA themselves.

RDP, Rustdesk, and Waypipe are probably going to eat into your billion dollars (and network transparency laments).

As stated in the article, opt-out vsync is already a thing (though not widely implemented yet).

I have not used GNOME in a while but KDE on Wayland is great. And the roadmap certainly looks a lot nicer than xorg’s.

I was on a video call in Wayland an hour ago. I shared my screen. I did not think about it much at the time but, since you brought it up….

If that is your full list, I think you just made the case that Wayland is in good shape.

RHEL 9 defaulted to Wayland in 2022 and RHEL 10 will not even include Xorg as an option. Clearly the business world is transitioning to Wayland just fine.

GNOME and KDE both default to Wayland. So, most current Linux desktops do as well.

X11 will be with us a long time but most Linux users will not think about it much after this year. They will all be using Wayland.

With the AUR, there is an “it depends” since AUR packages are unofficial and variable in quality.

That said, I have a strong bias for installing the distro package over using AppImage or Flatpak.

There are three reasons not to use the distro package:

• the package is not available
• the package is too old
• the package maintainer cannot be trusted

My #1 reason for using Arch is to eliminate 1 and 2. In my experience, the AUR is almost always fine for #3.

Even when I use another distro, I put Distrobox with Arch on it and get any of the packages that the distro does not have from there.

The only Flatpak I have had to install has been pgAdmin.

Performance is not the ISA. It is just the culmination of historical investment. It will get there.

Remember, it is not about licensing costs, it is about minimizing risk and maximizing flexibility (control).

Open always wins.

OMG. That is the most brilliant thing ever. I normally don’t get excited but that would be so good. Better than prison.

He means that the US and Russia will start a war as allies. With the backing of the US military, you can invade anybody you want.

Except he does care about his reputation. It is all he cares about. He is just wrong about what helps it.

He will go down as the dumbest and weakest President ever. He cares. But without a ghost of Presidents past intervention, he will not believe it. He feels tough right now and, I believe, honestly thinks he is right on tariffs. He is wrong and history will record it so, but he really believes it.

China is more stable and reasonable. Normally, the problem with China is that they are authoritarian despots. In the current situation, the US is matching them on the authoritarian despot front. So, China wins by being more stable and reasonable.

Moving away from doing business with China is a problem that has to be solved in the next ten year. Moving away from the US needs to happen now.

It is a shame this was so obvious. Even though I saw it a week late, it was so obviously an April Fool’s joke that it was not worth reading past the headline.

I feel bad for whoever put the work in.