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Cake day: December 19th, 2024

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  • Yeah, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. There is a shitload of frontend developers that specialize in web standards and technologies. Electron was developed to take advantage of that deep pool of frontend developers. The side affect, is that other OSes can just support electron and they get the developers and the applications for free. Which has been a major boon for Linux users and those looking to escape Microsoft’s vendor lockin strategy. Today might be different, but in the past, nobody was intending to support Linux by creating electron apps. If they cared so much or it was so important, they would have been using Qt and GTK prior to Electron.







  • That same user, Oh I need MacOS so I can edit pictures of my kids. I’ll have to buy all new hardware, $2000 dollars for a MacBook no problem. When they try Linux, What the heck, everything works except my cheap Wifi card. This is unacceptable, all of Linux has failed and is completely unusable by 100% of the computing world. Buying a 20 dollar USB dongle that is Linux compatible is completely out of the question for them.

    It’s great that there is overlap in hardware support between the three Oses, but lets not lose perspective. Imagine a Windows user complaining that MacOS had failed because MacOS doesn’t have full support for all the hardware in their Windows machine. Or vice versa.


  • If what you want is Windows. Just use windows. For the few times I’ve had to use Windows over the decades, while frustrating and laborious, I don’t expect it to be like my Linux distro. If a Linux distro has the features, utility, software, or ease of use you want. Then by all means, buy a Linux compatible machine. Most distro’s install in 5-10 minutes or buy a prebuilt Linux machine. Nobody expects MacOS to be Windows or Windows to be MacOS. And why would you? Just use the OS you need. Imagine expecting MacOS to be a “free Windows clone”. I’m sure the MacOS users would be screaming bloody murder if Apple thought that was a good idea.


  • Valve’s repair policy was exceptional with the steam deck so I have reasons to believe that the battery for the steam controller will be available for a very reasonable cost.

    Just to piggy back on what you are say, one of the engineers in the LTT video mentioned they want to team up with iFixIt again, just like they did for the Steam Deck. And I saw the back shell off the controller in one of the videos. The batter looks dead simple to replace. It’s wild to even imagine that a company in 2025 would be be consumer friendly.