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As another user mentioned, package managers are specific to distributions rather than DEs. The main difference between them is that they're developed by the respective distribution teams, but there are some practical differences too. For example, apt supports versioned dependencies while pacman doesn't because of the different distribution models between Debian and Arch (monolithic vs. rolling release). This affects their dependency resolution strategy with each being better suited for it's respective distribution.

To address your point about package managers being the main difference between distros, this isn't quite true. As mentioned, different distros have different distribution models, priorities, and overall biases/opinions that affect the user experience in a variety of ways and make them better suited to different use cases. I would never dream of putting Arch on one of my servers in the same way that you'd probably never catch me installing Debian on my gaming machine.

Chromium is open-source. Chrome is not and also happens to constitute a majority of the browser market, and Google has tried multiple times to cash in on this market share to benefit their primary business of advertising to the detriment of users (FLoC, Manifest v3, Web Environment Integrity).

Likewise, AOSP is open-source, but Google has been progressively dismantling it and making various components closed-source (most recently the dialer app).

All this to say, Google is absolutely not friendly to FOSS. As a corporation, they're beholden to their shareholders above all else and they should be treated as an amoral entity, the same as every other publicly-traded company.

This article seems to be outdated as both apps are now visible in the Play Store and I had no problems downloading and running them. A comment suggests that it may be due to the previous minimum SDK target for the apps being too low. I'd be willing to chalk this up to being more innocuous than active malice on Google's part.

I'm approaching the point where I'm seriously considering buying a spare drive for a Windows install exclusively for VR. I'm currently dealing with 3 separate serious issues with SteamVR on Linux, one of which I sometimes can't even work around depending on how it's feeling that day. Not to mention, every new release lately seems to introduce a new problem.

I haven't had a Windows install on my system since my previous SSD died 2 or 3 years ago, but it's getting to the point where it's more trouble than it's worth.

Public companies are by definition amoral. They're beholden to their shareholders and virtually every decision they make is informed by this obligation. Morality generally only factors into their decision-making insofar as it affects PR and thus the bottom line.

I don't mean to say that Google or any other company is immoral. I use amoral to simply mean that they operate independent of morality. No public company, no matter how much you may like them, is your friend at the end of the day.

Just as a note, I believe you still need to tick the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" in Steam settings to allow it to be used with non-verified games.

Nope, different product with almost the exact same name lol.

Republicans, at least the ones calling the shots, don't give a shit about "the children" and never have. They just care about controlling women. It's sickening.

I don't think I've ever felt the urge to apply an alignment chart to monospace fonts of all things, but Xenon and Radon are basically lawful and chaotic evil respectively.

My assumption would be that it's because we don't really look at mirrors per se but rather the reflection in them, so the definite article is indicating the fungibility of the mirror itself. This total speculation on my part though and I might be totally wrong.

I think you misunderstand the typical use case for the AUR. It's generally used to install fairly niche software that might fly under the radar of distro maintainers. For example, I have CoreCtrl, a utility for managing AMD GPUs, on my install via the AUR. I'm not aware of any distro that packages it currently because it's just too niche of a use case right now for maintainers to pay it any mind.

Nope, doesn't have any of the hallmarks of an LLM and LLMs aren't yet clever enough to produce original humor like that.

Even in the CS world, ordinal phrases are still 1-indexed (e.g. the first element of an array vs element 0).

Why do you count PHP as a point against Kbin?

Nice opinion, tankie.

To Valve's credit, since that post they did implement base station power management and some DEs now implement Wayland's DRM leasing protocol, and there's a somewhat buggy async reproduction implementation in place (although it's broken in SteamVR 2.0 onwards).

Heartbleed was the result of an accidental buffer overread bug, not a backdoor.

It most certainly is not. Besides the missing features mentioned by the other commenter, SteamVR 2.1 literally shipped last week with a bug that caused it to completely stop functioning on Linux. I think the hotfix version still isn't in the release channel. There's another bug still present in 2.1.7 that prevents VR games from starting. SteamVR Home doesn't work at all anymore.

2.0 had an issue where vrdashboard was using the wrong pixel format which caused the red and blue channels to be swapped (pretty sure that made it into the release channel), and there was a regression introduced in the last year (and is still yet to be fixed) that causes vrdashboard to be rendered to the controller instead of the battery indicator. Granted, these are more minor issues, but it shows the level of QA that goes into the Linux version (next to none).

To answer some of your questions:

1. Fedora has two major releases per year. I've only been using it long enough to do one upgrade, but it was basically seamless and the same as any normal incremental update, except it took longer to apply.
2. I can't speak for other DEs, but the Plasma spin provides a system setting to apply updates automatically. I haven't used it myself, but it's literally just a radio button so I imagine it's pretty easy to get working.
3. SELinux for the most part is unobtrusive, but it can definitely be a pain when trying to do more advanced things on the system. For instance, it needs to be specially configured to allow systemd-hibernate to work, and I still haven't gotten hibernate-after-sleep to work at all (though that might not be SELinux's fault, I haven't found time to follow up on it. You can also disable it, though, if it gets too much in the way.

I can't speak to Arc support or RAID specifically, although if the data on the RAID array is vital then you NEED to have at least one backup before you even think about installing a new OS.

"Old man yells at cloud"

continue is useful as a loop analog to early return in a function context, which helps keep indentation/nested conditionals under control and in turn improves code readability.

Nah, I did this once and didn't notice until the call was placed because I was a little tipsy and engaged in conversation. IIRC it didn't make any noise since my phone is always on vibrate, it just buzzed a bit and by the time I processed what was happening it was too late and I had to explain to the dispatcher that no, I was just fidgeting with my phone.

Have you used PHP 7+ before? It's surprisingly ergonomic, much more so than earlier versions.

The parent comment is not correct. The Index paired with SteamVR on Linux has a plethora of issues and sometimes doesn't work at all. It's usually possible to get it working through some combination of switching SteamVR versions and rebooting, but it's never a guarantee and usually takes a good chunk of time to get sorted when it's being temperamental.

Sure, but that only applies when referring to indices or to the zeroth element specifically.

Doesn't trixie still support like a dozen arches? I think one of the more recent deprecations was MIPS BE which is functionally obsolete in 2024, at least insofar as practically no one is using it to run a modern distribution.

He's a self-help guru who primarily targets young men and is notable for being comically misogynistic and essentially equating women to inanimate objects. Unfortunately, he has a huge cult following in spite or maybe even because of this.

Technically speaking I think it would be 4,997,978 BCE, but at that point you're talking about geologic rather than anthropic timescales so you'd more likely just call it 5 mya (5 million years ago).

Ah okay, I haven't looked in a while so my info must have been outdated.

Fair warning, you do lose access to some offline AI features like improved voice dictation and song recognition as well as Google Pay. I'm okay with the tradeoff personally but it is still a downside.

The question hits on some of the most fundamental aspects of our current understanding of reality and theoretical physics. As another commenter pointed out, one potential answer delves into QFT. Just because OP used a metaphor doesn't warrant you saying they had "too many pot brownies" and there's absolutely no need to be a condescending jerk here.

DAE le libtards bad?