I mean yeah. I mean wtf.

I mean, if I install something compiling from source, I would not expect anyone else to manage it, right? I mean why would anyone expect that flatpak snap etc. all get managed automatically, they even forget how they installed something, it is so ridiculous.

Well then don’t! Revenge code which makes it worse for people who actually use Linux isn’t a way to do this.

It’s sad to see the 100500th confrontation between the people who have never contributed to the kernel, yet they want to deprive others of using their existing GPU with Linux and instead force them to buy a new GPU. This screams of of being elitist and haughty but I just don’t care any longer. Too tired of hatred, aggression, animosity and verbal attacks. This has really propelled Linux, oh, wait, it’s only shown what kind of people represent Open Source.

If it’s a dmca violation then sue them. Do not create software “defenses” and do not make my computer experience worse.

Manjaro is a really good distro to start with. It has very nice defaults including the correct zsh plugins. Should make your transition to Arch whenever the time comes very smooth. It does have a bad reputation because they don’t seem to manage it well (e.g. keys keep expiring), and the said defaults are implemented in a very hacky way (if you see the code). Also they follow a delayed release which is really unnecessary given Arch is stable already; and in fact the delay can cause issues if you use AUR (which you will, eventually discover and learn about and love).

Search for “how to install Firefox in Arch”. Snapstore page which asks you to first install snap from AUR, and then install Firefox through Snap is the second entry, I kid you not!

And they have same pages for Fedora erc.

This predatory behavior is to try and get any potential new Linux users to use their crapstore instead of their distro’s package is disgusting and malicious.

You can instead, for instance, get a Dell latitude with 32GB i7, for less than $1000. It comes preinstalled with an inferior “OS” (rather sales, telemetry and data harvesting avenue), Windows 11 Pro. But it begs to be wiped and installed Fedora or Arch or some other useful OS, which is easily done.

Too expensive though.

There are people.

I don’t quite believe it, but secretly hope that the metric is correct and it’s indeed accelerating.

Linux desktop has been ahead of its competitors, both Mac and Windows, for a while now. While Windows keeps getting worse and worse.

And now all games run on Linux desktop too (except Destiny).

May be people are slowly realizing and catching on?

This is a case where the class is led by a moron. That person should be reported.

Piracy for the students was justified because they had no other option. But outside of this school, if I were you and I needed the software again, I’d definitely use Octave without question. (Or Python if I’m willing to learn something new.)

The point is, if you have free and open source alternatives, use them. You’ll be better off.

Never knew there is a script to hook. It works flawlessly since the beginning for me with Arch.

This is the kind of things I like to hear!

I hate GUI for every little thing. Config files are so much more flexible, shareable, and use friendly because you can edit them with anything and can have much more control.

I’m not sure why you say that. I’ve been using Arch to play triple A games (Control, Diablo 4, Elden Ring, Death Stranding, etc.) with NVidia GPU even (which is known to have proprietary driver and not as tweakable). Never had a single glitch, everything runs like native.

Yeah, you’re right. Might as well go with AMD. NVidia works but isn’t needed. I think NVidia generally has low power draw though, so just check to make sure.

I’d buy a pre owned card from eBay.

Go with RTX 2070 Super which should be around your price point. If not, then RTX 2070 (not super).

Make sure returns are accepted, and seller has high rating (99%).

This except Ubuntu has fallen. Mint or PipOS are better now.

Yeah I did make that mistake.

I think if it’s separated from Ubuntu then it’s a nice excitement. I wish they just base it on Debian or some other distro.

You are ruling out intelligence without (very probably) being able to define it, just because you have a vague knowledge of how it works.

The problem in this mode of thinking is a) that you put human brains in a different pedestal, even though they follow physical processes to “predict the next word” and may be very well neural networks themselves, and b) you are ignoring data that shows intelligence in multiple areas of the more complex models because “oh it’s mindless because I know it’s predicting tokens”. c) you favor of data that shows edge cases or probably that come from lower quality models.

You’re not alone in this line of thinking.

Your mind is set. You’ll not recognize intelligence when you see it.