War Thunder devs refusing to look at 50 year old NATOPS manuals because of “confidentiality” and then proceeding to buff Russian slop has me convinced Putin plays the game to cope with his losses in Ukraine.

Trying to figure out if this means Trump’s brokered peace with India & Pakistan will also crumble just as fast, or if they’ll wait another 5 years before doing another air battle.

I’m more surprised they aren’t spam locking to have the RWR jukebox tracking alerts lol

I thought it was funny how it was some magical conglomerate of Iran and Russia, and how the plot literally included the exact nuclear refinery target that was bombed earlier this year.

Ignoring all the insane air fight stupidity, the only thing I could think about during the whole movie was the WKUK Nerf Nuke spoof.

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relaxes in XFCE

Do these updates not go through any rigorous testing at all

Lol no, MSFT infamously dropped their entire Hardware QA team after WIndows 7 and instead relied on the also infamous insider hub to get QA “feedback” from home users instead, leading to the also infamous Windows 8 disaster and slightly less infamous critical CVEs that went unaddressed because MSFT ddidn’t even bother to read the insider hub posts.

Oh and they didn’t learn anything and kept running with the insider hub well into Windows 10 & 11.

No its because Tik-Tok (until it got acquired by Oracle) didn’t ban Palestinian content like FB, X, and YouTube.

It’s infuriating that you can’t even find even half decent footage of any warzone on literally any media outlet because for some magical reason it gets deleted almost immediately on social media, which leaves it in limbo on whatsapp forwards.

They sort if did this with Windoes Vista, but instead of fixing issues, they just removed a ton of vulnerable code, which resulted in a bunch of dropped features lol.

Tangentially related, but theres a reason why Pakistan’s field marshall has the internet nickname of “Hafiz Whiskey”

Seriously for all the protests and walkouts over Gaza last year, my main thought was “didn’t you know MSFT/Google/Meta is literally evil?”

I can’t blame anyone for wanting a stable income, but you might as well be working for Lockheed Martin. There’s a reason why these megacorps stay in an oligopoly at the top, and it has nothing to do with talent or quality solutions.

Yeah except I have never seen anyone actually suggest Zorin OS for this purpose due to its controversial pro edition.

There are other distros that achieve the same thing. My point is that Zorin is making money off of something I could do with zero effort, which implies its not even worth making a pay to use distro when one of the inherent benefits of linux is that its free.

I could understand if Zorin provided some groundbreaking software like Crossover, which for a long time had some serious advantages over wine and proton (yes I know irony that all are based on wine). But as other people have pointed out, most of this OS is just a reskin + preinstalled app combo. Might as well just use Nobara, which GE made in his spare time with some lazy scripts for Fedora.

Bruh ain’t no way people are choosing Zorin OS over all the available options.

If this is a result of people searching “best windows like distro”, they’re profiting off of a windows theme for GNOME, not even a full DE.

You can achieve the same thing with zero effort on any distro because DEs and themes aren’t tied to a distro.

Its still lagging is its MRs, like HDR coming in just less than a year ago.

Valve’s complaint was that even after getting approval from at least 3 DE projects, protocols were not getting merged due to hypothetical discussions and implementation baggage.

I imagine it all started with them making their gamescope compositor a few years ago and realizing a bunch of stuff was still missing.

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

Check if you have ffmpeg-free or ffmpeg (from RPMFusion)

Honestly forgot which codecs+encode/decode aren’t included in Fedora’s free build, but I think they don’t include some parts of H264, H265, and other proprietary codecs.

Yes Yes I have been continously using it and it wasn’t viable until around late 2023 and early 2024.

My complaint isn’t that it sucks now, its that it sucked for a solid decade doing nothing.

proper HDR

Is completly up to each compositor to implement properly. Its still experimental in KDE because afaik theres no proper SDR + HDR tone mapping for mixed apps on the display, like a desktop.

Valve made their own compositor and cheats the problem by ensuring their client and overlay supports HDR colors + only having to handle the HDR from game output.

full VRR support

Not if you have an Nvidia GPU before 2017, and again already a thing in X11.

no screen tearing and reduced latency

Again, VRR and wayland’s ingenious solution to this was triple buffering, which is a pure software solution that adds latency making it unsuitable in several cases like this: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/3373

The clipboard also works fine

Welcome to Xwayland clipboard hell: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/6132

Its not that Wayland can’t easily fix any of these issues or that the other major improvements you mentioned are not worth it, its that it took Wayland like 13 years to do so.

Most of this should have been sorted out in the first couple years of development. People were already making fun of Wayland back in the day for pretending to be “decoupled from the graphics hardware” and then deciding on the aforementioned triple buffer.

Wayland didn’t even merge in HDR support until 9 months ago: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14#note_2777587

Fedora (with KDE Plasma) or OpenSUSE tumbleweed (with KDE Plasma)

Mint is good but its kernel is usually slightly out of date and it still has upstream Ubuntu issues.

Other Ubuntu downstreams are subpar imo.

Plus Fedora & OpenSUSE ships with SELinux if you want MAC security support.

The only downside for Fedora is you have to enable 3rd party software after install and run a couple of commands to swap to full ffmpeg and Nvidia drivers if you have Nvidia hardware. I think OpenSUSE might ship with these enabled but I forgot.

Wayland is responsible for kneecapping linux desktop in so many ways its infuriating, especially since linux basically figured out the golden standard of UX design back in the 2000s with stuff like GNOME 2 and Compiz.

It’s such an unnecessary burden with progress as slow as ripoff projects like star citizen.

I hope valve picks up the slack with frog protocols or at least gets PRs merged, because it would be stupid to ship steam machine and then explain to the user that the clipboard doesn’t work yet, even though it used to work perfectly fine in X11.

Who do you think props up UAE and all the other oil states you fool?