Nibodhika , 9 months ago to nostupidquestions in Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value?

It has always been my understanding that sites and apps get paid X cents for displaying an ad, and Y cents (where Y is larger than X) whenever someone actually clicks an ad on their site. So this would in theory help the website.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to nostupidquestions in Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value?

There already are tools out there that obfuscate your data by making it purposefully wrong, e.g. adnauseam.io is an ad blocker that also clicks every single ad sent your way.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to nostupidquestions in What are these things? I always see them in the sky

Worst part is he also didn’t knew, he posted on another thread saythe just learned about that today.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to nostupidquestions in What are these things? I always see them in the sky

As long as you apparently who also didn’t knew this according to yourself lemm.ee/comment/3880431 so stop shaming people for asking questions, especially if you don’t even know the answer to them.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Windows?

I answered that in another comment:

But they’re not flexible enough, afaik (and you seem to know more so please correct me if I’m wrong) you can’t move virtual desktops from one monitor to another or choose whether each monitor should have their own set, or even choose whether you switch virtual desktops on only one or all monitors at a time. Which is why I specified as “that actually work” because the ones that exist work in only one way, so if you’re okay with that great but if not it’s the same as not having them.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Windows?

• Even if you can use an alternative file explorer you can’t uninstall the native one, so that’s not really replaceable. And even if you could there’s the DE and the backend for graphics that I mentioned which you most definitely can’t. The fact that people realise that being able to choose a web browser is a good thing but never consider the same of other parts of the system is truly amazing to me.
• That’s cool, didn’t knew that was possible,bI guess then that the file formation thing should be moved to the possible but so difficult might as well be impossible category.
• Even if the windows store did the same, it’s a closed garden, so you can only update stuff Microsoft has approved, whereas anyone can spawn their own repo of packages for any of the many package managers out there. To give an example I would consider Android to NOT have this ability I described for Linux (at least not to the same extent), because system and apps updates are separated and because the play store is a walled garden that Google controls, and the moment you add F-droid or other alternatives you now have multiple steps to update everything. I agree that Flatpaks and the like are shifting this, but it’s not hard to imagine a package manager that can natively handle those as well just like apt can handle both binary and source packages.
• You’re missing the point of being able to fix the system, it’s not about what you are likely to do, is about what you can or can’t do. I agree with you that you’re not likely to do it, and you seem a lot more knowledgeable than me on Windows so I believe that everything you said there is true, but the fact that you’re stopped at the source code on Windows is exactly my point. I saw this a lot when playing around with game engines, Unity’s bugs were annoying and all you could do was report them and wait, on Unreal and Godot you could hop in and find the issue in the code and get a better understanding and possibly fix it, just because the average game programmer won’t do it doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
• I know tiling window managers exist for Windows, but in my experience they’re all shit and miss things and are not as well integrated with other stuff such as virtual desktops which is essential. Which is why I put it on the possible but difficult category.
• But they’re not flexible enough, afaik (and you seem to know more so please correct me if I’m wrong) you can’t move virtual desktops from one monitor to another or choose whether each monitor should have their own set, or even choose whether you switch virtual desktops on only one or all monitors at a time. Which is why I specified as “that actually work” because the ones that exist work in only one way, so if you’re okay with that great but if not it’s the same as not having them.
• Last I used KDE that was the default behaviour, and I’m pretty sure that’s easily configured on the shortcuts section of the system settings app. On the other hand to change these on windows you need to fiddle with regedit and some shortcuts are simply hardcoded so are impossible to change.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Windows?

Others have already answered your specific points, which are all (sort of) possible on Windows. I would like to present a quick list of things are not possible on Windows, this is split in 3 parts: Truly impossible, Possible but so convoluted it might as well be impossible, and possible but much harder than what it should.

Truly Impossible

• Choose your preferred program for things. Sure you can do it for simple stuff like text or video, but what about my graphical interface backend, my file explorer or my DE.
• Choose your disk format. Again you can use an incredible array of (I think) 3 formats, and while I also only use ext4 on Linux I know BTRFS is there for me if I ever want to switch to a modern filesystem.
• Customise your system. Again people are going to claim that this is possible on Windows via regedit, but it’s not on the same level, I can’t have a Windows version stripped of controller support or wireless support if I know I’ll never plug a controller or a wireless card on the machine.
• Upgrade every single component of your system in one go. Because the way programs are installed on Windows you need to upgrade each one on its own.
• Fix issues with the system, say you found a bug on Linux if you have the expertise you can 100% fix it, on Windows the best you can do is report it and hope for the best.

Almost impossible

• Using a tiling window manager
• Virtual desktops that actually work

Harder than what it should

• Customise Super+ commands
• Prevent auto updates

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to games in PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion

It’s been 10 years since what? Since Microsoft bought Mojang? So you’re saying you’re okay if in 10 years Microsoft takes away your copy of Skyrim or Call of Duty unless you give them your phone number?

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in Should I give Arch a shot?

You don’t need to reinstall to increase swap size, in fact you can just delete the swap partition entirely, add it to the root partition and create a swapfile there, that way you can quickly change the size if you want to. Get familiar with doing these sort of things, since that is the sort of thing Arch encourages to do.

Also instability does not mean what you think it means, instability on Linux means libraries get updated constantly, so if you are running external programme or developing on it sometimes things break because they haven’t been updated to that latest library version. I’m not aware of any GRUB issues recently, but in any case I use refind and I like it a lot better than GRUB anyways.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in Interested in learning more

First of all you can try Linux yourself, just install a Virtual Machine software and try some different Linuxs to see what’s all the fuss about. Or if you have an extra drive or partition dual boot.

What can I expect to find as a casual observer?

I started as a casual observer, dual booted for a long while, but the more time I spent on Linux the more Windows problems became glaringly obvious. But there’s one major trap that a lot of people fall into, which is thinking Linux is just like Windows, if you try to do the things the Windows way you’re going to have a bad time, and this goes for everything from installing software to changing configs.

Why does Linux do that’s “better” than Windows?

There are a lot of objective but technical answers to that question, from the scheduler to memory management, but I think that for the most part most people don’t care that their system occupies double the amount of RAM when idle because they have the ram to spare anyways, so I’m going to talk about things that I (somewhat) subjectively think are better and why.

• Package managers: in Linux you install things through a package manager, similar to how on Android you use the Play store. The reasons are similar, e.g. more security, updates cover the entire system and easier to find software. To download an executable and install it manually in Linux sounds just as absurd as downloading an APK and installing it manually in android.
• YOU are in control: Linux is the only one of the main 3 desktop OS to allow you FULL control of your system. Don’t believe me? Try to uninstall the file explorer from Windows.
• Customisable: Windows is NOT customisable despite what you think, in short you can change your wallpaper and that’s it, in Linux you can change ANYTHING, from the program you use to browse files to the backed you use to draw graphics, it’s a whole new level that windows simply can’t match. I think someone who mods their games would be very interested in modding their OS, and Linux will allow you that to a level you didn’t knew possible.
• Peripherals support: yes, most hardware is built with windows in mind so their programs are built for windows, so when you plug something new you need to wait the 5 min until windows discovered what it is, then wait until it installs the drivers, then probably install a third party driver or app companion. Linux on the other hand uses a monolithic kernel, this means that the Linux Kernel contains drivers for all the things it thinks you might want to plug in, which results in the absolute majority of things working out of the box immediately after plugging them in. On rare occasions (e.g. NVIDIA cards if you want the best performance) you need to install third party drivers, but in general things just work. This means that Linux supports hardware even though the hardware doesn’t support Linux, which is not the case on Windows, the best example I can think is PlayStation controllers, since they’re not meant to be plugged on PCs they don’t work on Windows, but they work out of the box on Linux.

It’s not all roses though, most software is made for Windows (game included) so you need to run an “emulator” (not really an emulator, but easier to understand) to be able to use them. The name of this “emulator” is WINE (which means WINE Is Not an Emulator), then there’s Proton which is a compilation of WINE and other libraries that runs from steam to let you run games that are not native.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in which distro has the best version of deepin desktop?

isn’t Garuda using Arch repos? how did it shit itself in one week? after installation Garuda and Arch should be indistinguishable. Also Manjaro has a history of shitting itself, but has been relatively stable lately (at least for me, although one of my systems did fail recently, can’t remember why though, I just switched back to arch on it).

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in which distro has the best version of deepin desktop?

Care to elaborate as to why?

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in Which GPU to choose for Linux gaming?

Last I tried it didn’t worked, however last I told Reddit/Lemmy that NVIDIA didn’t worked on Wayland I was downvoted to hell and told it obviously worked and had worked for a long time. So in theory it works, but I was never able to get it to work and I have given up trying until I get an AMD card.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in Which GPU to choose for Linux gaming?

He’s asking to buy a new one, so old cards not working is not really an issue. But are you sure about the Turing line (i.e. 20 series)? I thought the Maxwell (i.e. 7 series) was the oldest you can use on the proprietary drivers. In fact up until recently I had a 1080 that I used with the proprietary drivers.

Nibodhika , 9 months ago to linux in Which GPU to choose for Linux gaming?

Short answer: AMD

Long answer: AMD used to be very bad, NVIDIA has always been the same, i.e. if you’re willing to use proprietary drivers it works, but it has some hiccups. A while back AMD open source their drivers so the game turned around, nowadays they’re very easy and compatible from what I’ve heard. I’ve used NVIDIA for over a decade, but my next card Winn be AMD for sure.

PS: if you’re still in doubt, the latest Linux kernel purposefully broke the NVIDIA proprietary driver because NVIDIA has been copyright infringing the Linux kernel by using functions that are considered so integral to the kernel that if you have to use them you work should be considered derivative and be bounded by GPL licence.