why ask for a password.
To give the user an extra second to realise they’re doing dumb shit, and should stop?
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why ask for a password.
To give the user an extra second to realise they’re doing dumb shit, and should stop?
I kind of think that’s QTs whole deal right? An abstraction layer that allows for devs to not get stuck in the weeds implementing it all manually.
How can a window manager position things if the program doesn’t communicate with it correctly?
Thank you for the history, I appreciate it. Hopefully Valve releases SteamOS properly soon, it could be the resurgence of the Steam Machine!
Disk encryption doesn’t protect against what Secure Boot does. They are very different, often complimentary, systems.
Yeah no, it makes heaps of sense. It just initially sounded to me like the person was implying the Steam Deck is Valve’s escape hatch from running the Steam store. Which would be ridiculous, the two business sectors aren’t even close to the same order of magnitude.
Huh. That’s actually a pretty good take.
What do you mean by an escape hatch. Valve have been messing with hardware and Linux for way longer than the Steam Deck.
This is why Microsoft made WSL, they knew they were losing ground big time amongst devs.
No, it doesn’t, because the cost of that software is on the business because it makes them money. This person is literally smoking crack if they think it should ever be on the employee. There is never, ever, ever a situation where an employee paying an employer is a good thing.
Yes, the word free in English both means free as in gratis, without cost, as well as free as in freedom.
Wow. I don’t think I’ve seen a dumber take than “Windows good because it prevents an Apple monopoly” in a long while.
I’d imagine there would have to be script support, as KDE runs on many distros that all have very different update flows.
I’m actually wondering if it’s not just applications. That text talks of installing drivers to devices, so I’m actually wondering if this is about better support for hardware that’s paired to specific software. The recent use-case that’s got it on my mind is Rekordbox with Pioneer DJ decks. My housemate was curious so I tried running it under WINE and it launches just fine, but it could not see the decks at all, nor the encrypted license key verification it does with it’s driver. And I did manually install the driver into the prefix first.
However, I’m not positive this is it. It’s just a hunch.
Look, owning that means you’re already doing better than 99% of people who do this :)
C’mon, that’s like, worse than not reading the article.
Honestly, I really should have already, but spaced on it. Thank you for reminding me.
Did you just, not read the OP and come straight to this person’s comment to argue with them based off the least charitable interpretation? The OP already uses Linux Mint Debian Edition. This person mentioned “flavours” of Linux, clearly meaning the various 𝑥-based families of distros (ie Debian, Fedora, Arch etc). Which is pretty solid advice when it comes to learning the CLI in my opinion. I think they were trying to gently nudge OP away from their second EndeavourOS install, as even though ArchWiki is great (sorry KDE but it has better Plasma docs), OP would end up pretty lost on trying to use those skills back on LMDE.
But to circle back around, Debian, the distro, actually is a good choice for learning the CLI because it can be installed without a desktop environment, potentially using something like Distrobox. That way OP could learn the CLI within their LMDE installation in a sandbox, so they don’t risk messing up their main computer.
What would suggest is a better option for beginners than a Debian-base?
Okay, here me out, but the other day I accidentally rebased my nvidia Bazzite system to the testing version of the deck image. It would fuzz out before even the bios splash. So yeah, you can still mess it up lol