Not to mention VSCodium already exists.
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Not to mention VSCodium already exists.
I figured they would just run sfc /scannow
and then sit staring at their screen bewildered when it inevitably does nothing.
Just found this article about it that seems to fundamentally misunderstand it in every single way. I didn’t know it was even possible to be this clueless. Either that, or it’s AI.
When the spacing is tight
and the difference is slight,
that’s a moire!
Thor from Pirate Software (a game studio) does this. He has his set up so that if he doesn’t log into a specific server for a year, the source code to his game will be automatically published.
You could do the same thing. Just grab a super cheap server that checks the last login date and sends out emails.
As someone who tried NixOS recently for the first time, it feels like an uphill battle.
Some immediate concerns I have as a newbie are below. Bear in mind that I’m a single user on a single system.
Organisation is daunting as fuck
Even a relatively simple desktop config seems rather large to me. I expect the complexity of my config to balloon if I were to use this as my primary OS. There seems to be no consensus on how things should be separated.
I’ve heard home-manager is good, but I don’t really get the point of it. What does it achieve for me that editing configuration.nix doesn’t? I’ve yet to find a benefit. It’s just another place to dump endless configs and another command to remember to run.
Installing software feels like the roll of a dice
I installed NixOS to try Hyprland, and their docs say to just use programs.hyprland.enable = true
, which I’ve come to learn is a module. But that’s not the only way to install things! You also have system packages and user packages! I just want to install some software, I don’t want to have to look up whether it’s a module or a package every time I want something new. I’m never sure what I should add to which section. No other distro that I know of has this problem! Having 3 different places to add software seems excessive. What am I using? Windows? And now there’s Flakes too. I’m sure they’re great, but right now I just see them as yet another way to install software on Nix. Great.
There’s more, but I’ll leave it there for now. I’m sure there are reasonable answers to all that I’ve said, but I’m just frustrated. I really want to like Nix, but it’s not making it easy.
tl;dr: Two things. 1) Lack of consensus on how configs are organised is confusing. 2) Having 3 different ways of installing software (modules/packages/flakes) does not feel better than apt install
or pacman -Syu
etc.
I’m not sure you got the point that the article was the trying to get across.
Competition and interop are great things, but that’s not the problem. The problem is in fundamental design choices that completely change how users interact with systems.
Let’s look at controllers. Should we standardise on tracked controllers or hand tracking? There are benefits and drawbacks to both.
Controllers allow one hand to have many different inputs (be they buttons/sticks/touch/etc) and provide haptic feedback, while hand tracking does not.
Hand tracking allows better immersion as your hands in-headset will more closely match your real hands, which is something you don’t always get with controllers.
Not all applications/games can be made to work well with both of these input methods, if at all.
If you supported the dev you’d pay to remove the ads. Clicking the ads would also support them.
It’s alright to like an app just because it’s familiar. I feel the same way with Boost.
VRChat for sure. You can easily spend so much time in there.
Probably off-by-one errors
You can code in Notepad in the same way you can eat off the floor with your hands. Using better tools is a nicer experience.
As for performance, when one of the world’s most popular editor runs on Electron, it’s not that hard to see why performance could be an issue when working on large projects on older hardware.
I’ve never personally had an issue with VSCode’s performance, but I’m also fortunate enough to be in a position where I can afford a relatively modern machine. Many others have to make do with what they have, which is why Zed might appeal to them.
implying that any developer actually reads warnings
Consider all the gamers with more money than sense buying 4090s for the price of cars and, more importantly, many companies buying datacenter cards for their next generative AI project (not that I think many of them will last).
I don’t see Nvidia running out of money any time soon.
Same here, to a certain extent.
I was referring only to Linux’s lack of bullshittery in comparison to Windows, nothing else.
Far easier to do too. I did one of each last month and there’s no question that the Windows setup experience is terrible in comparison.
I played on release and then stopped after a while. I left a positive review hoping the game would improve over time.
I came back a year later and literally nothing had changed. In fact, it had gotten worse. The same bugs existed as when I first played, and my controls had now broken (Index controllers now cannot cast spells??) and there was no fix or workaround available online.
Given the amount of money and time they had to fix and test things, my review is now negative.
I want to like Forgejo but the name is really terrible.
Is it “forj-joe”? Nah, that double-J sound is way too awkward.
Do you then merge the J sounds to make “forjo”? If so, why not just call it that?
Is it maybe “for-geh-joe”? That seems the most likely to me, but then that ignores the “build < forge” marketing on their website.
I know it’s pretty inconsequential, but it feels weird using a tool that you don’t even know how to pronounce the name of.
Seems like a “haha JS bad” kind of joke, but OP seems to forget that Python is also in a similar boat.
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