Ulrich

They're effectively dead. I haven't ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.

Yep 100% this kind of shit drove me away a couple years ago. It had nothing to do with Linux getting better and everything to do with Windows getting worse.

No, their Micro-compositor was written exclusively for AMD cards.

Because NVIDIA drivers suck. That's on Nvidia, not Linux or Valve.

You can avoid this risk by backing up your personal data to an external drive, which frankly everyone should be doing anyway because hard drives are consumables.

This is super inconvenient. Better method is to set up a server w/ Syncthing and use that to just sync your Home directory remotely.

Because Windows is a data-mining and advertising tool these days, more than anything. So they want to make sure you have a MS account on day 1 and that you have to opt out of all of their services 34 times over before they let you use the damn thing.

Usually when I propose these things IRL I'm met with laughter and "who cares?". I don't even try anymore.

I follow lots of cool stuff but also notice that none of that cool stuff gets any sort of interaction whatsoever. That's because discoverability is shit. Search is broken. The only thing that gets any sort of attention is TRUSK BAD.

BSky has the right idea with user-configurable/sharable algorithms. So there are still algorithms, but you the user are entirely in control of them.

Ah, I was thinking of CAMM, which came out >2 years ago.

CUDIMM is the socket-able answer to this and it's rolling out.

Rolling out where? As far as I know it's only ever been installed and sold in a single device. Can't tell ya why but it is.

What's the excuse for soldering SSDs?

I don't have an answer for that one.

For now

If that ever changes I'll change my argument. I don't think Apple really cares about the small fraction of users that will bother to mess with it.

Being done in the browser means it's being done in the cloud which I'm personally not okay with. LibreOffice works well enough for my use.

Mac's are just as bad as Windows, just in different ways.

They're absolutely not.

Not to mention the entirely soldered RAM and SSD

Hate to tell you this but this is the direction of the entire industry. Look at the new Ryzen "AI Max" chips. Integrating CPU/GPU/RAM on the same chip just leads to crazy increases in performance and efficiency. As usual Apple paves the path to erosion of consumer choice.

Apple has been progressively neutering root on a path to make a laptop as much of a walled garden as iOS.

I agree it's a very bad thing in general but it can also be disabled with some simple terminal commands. MS goes out of their way to constantly break any solutions consumers might find to make their systems suck less.

Yeah I mean especially for professionals, most hardware requires special software for it to function properly and they don't bother making it available for Linux.