moomoomoo309

joined 2 years ago

No snapd on mint at all.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Try the auto tab discard extension on Firefox. That'll reduce firefox's memory footprint.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, the axes on this are weird, why would the opposite of a systems language be a toy language? And why is Lua, a very popular and commonly used language in tons of stuff, a "toy"? And Lua is a nu Lang? It's older than Java, maybe it just feels newer because each release isn't necessarily backwards compatible?

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think you're using this meme template backwards - the car should say most people and the text for the directions should be flipped. The car is supposed to be going somewhere it shouldn't, not somewhere it should.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, I would have expected C++ to end with the SIGSEGV and nothing else, then for python to reply.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

They probably are waiting for the open source driver to be rock-solid, and it's getting there.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

SteamOS will have the same issues, Nvidia doesn't like to play nice on Linux.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Might be a bit early to make such a statement - This is her third video. While I agree that her videos will undoubtedly have more personal effort put in and will have significantly less restrictions as compared to the content churn at LTT, I think you're underestimating the impact the Linux videos she did had and the reach that LTT, flawed as they are, have. Emily's not gonna really reach as many tech "converts" (people who might get into tech but aren't really yet), just people already into it, which is fine, but y'know, it's nice to be able to get people into the hobby. Don't let your hate for LTT, the organization, blind you to the effort Emily put in to make good videos while there!

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sure, but them stonewalling KDE for months with libadwaita theming preventing gnome apps from using the breeze theme properly on KDE is a bad decision - one that should never have happened. They eventually worked it out, but they shouldn't have first told the KDE devs to essentially pound sand, especially given KDE goes out of their way to make their apps use gnome's themes correctly no matter what, so your gnome system looks right when using KDE apps. The same courtesy should be expected from GNOME, at least to provide the scaffolding for that.

That is the kind of bad decisions I thought of when they brought it up. Or heck, why isn't dash to dock built into gnome at this point? Like a quarter of the gnome users (and yes, they checked their telemetry and found this to be true) were using it - that's obviously something that even if it goes against their design philosophy the DE should have built-in at this point. I think if you're not in the GNOME weeds, you won't see the kinds of boneheaded decisions they have made over the years.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

All of those languages will convert numbers into booleans, 0 is false, all other numbers are true.

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I understand what you mean here, but how can KDE realistically make commercial software vendors port their software to Linux? What group or groups could incentivize this, and how can it be done without creating significant user growth first? (it's a chicken and egg problem, so you can't wait until the users are there if they're waiting on software to be available)

[–] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

No, you're not understanding what I'm getting at here. Linux is not windows. It cannot and should not aim to recreate it exactly, that's a stupid idea from the get-go and will fail if attempted. Making every windows program work on Linux is also very difficult, but also, that's the Wine team's job, not KDE's - KDE devs don't have the expertise or knowledge to do that work. MacOS isn't bad because it's not identical to Windows, Linux should be judged similarly. It not being identical being seen as an issue is a mode of thinking that cannot lead to success. KDE has to be worth using because it's good in its own right, not because it's Windows without Microsoft.

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