There used to be x86 Android phones. But they kept that port going even after the phones went away because it was good for development on x86 machines. You could just run a VM instead of having to emulate an arm ISA.

Not even, amd on both my laptop and desktop, but still lots of issues. None of them major, but it adds up.

while they happily stick to the X they know

I mean, I’d love to, but…

Gnome forced me onto Wayland a few weeks ago and I’ve been dealing with issues ever since. Some issues even affecting the most basic level tasks like typing text, imagine dealing with that in 2025. Following your analogy, if the Uber with the fancy new transmission came to a halt every kilometre, you’d care too.

Once in a while, it turns out that enabling -fms-extensions could allow some slightly prettier code. But every time it has come up, the code that had to be used instead has been deemed “not too awful” and not worth introducing another compiler flag for.

That’s probably true for each individual case, but then it’s somewhat of a chicken/egg situation.

If we just “bite the bullet” as Linus says and enable it once and for all, it is available whenever a use case turns up, and no individual case has to justify it.

A lore.kernel.org search provides these examples:

• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/200706301813.58435.agruen@suse.de/
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180419152817.GD25406@bombadil.infradead.org/
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/170622208395.21664.2510213291504081000@noble.neil.brown.name/
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87h6475w9q.fsf@prevas.dk/
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjeZwww6Zswn6F_iZTpUihTSNKYppLqj36iQDDhfntuEw@mail.gmail.com/

Undoubtedly, there are more places in the code where this could also be used but where -fms-extensions just didn’t come up in any discussion.

Basically the extensions are useful sometimes. Note that they have nothing to do with Microsoft other than being invented by them.

And xorg is older than it appears, as it was forked from the much older XFree86 over licensing disagreements. XFree86 started in 1991 according to Wikipedia.

I finally had to switch recently because I use gnome, and they removed the X11 session. I managed to sort out most of the missing parts needed for my workflow, but it still feels like a downgrade. It feels much more sluggish, things that were instant now take a second, and I’ve been under a constant barrage of bugs and glitches. Some make the whole experience feel like using amateur software. I’ll be typing, then press a global shortcut to launch some software, and I’ll end up with whole desktop pausing for a second and the shortcut inserted in my text 20 times. And this happens a few times a day. Just one example.

I’ve almost exclusively used Linux desktop for the past decade and it was a smooth experience, but with gnome-wayland I finally understand the people that were always complaining about everything being broken and glitchy.

I can understand having some bugs, but if text or mouse input doesn’t work properly, or if using my new laptop suddenly feels like using my much slower old one, then I may as well look for a different desktop.

More like:
No system package -> installing from user repos -> appimage -> flatpak -> creating your own package -> using a VM with a distro that has the package -> not installing package

If after that you still don’t have it, it wasn’t meant to be it’s probably just not very good software.

That’s why they’re called veggie burgers, or are you just unfamiliar with how language works? Would you accept a glass of body milk with your breakfast?

I’ve had it run on wine a few years back, but it’s hard to say if it would still run now as they change it all the time. Freecad is ok for simpler designs, but if you do complex cad work, you hit its limits (clunky and buggy). There’s always onshape though, works perfectly fine on Linux.

I use quadlets instead - it’s part of podman and lets you manage containers as systemd services. Supports automatic image updates and gives you all the benefits of systemd service management. There’s a tool out there that will convert a docker compose config into quadlet unit files giving you a quick start, but I just write them by hand.

You can’t just un-racist a word because it makes you feel bad man.

Well then, I hope you never use the word slave, slavery, or any of the derived words, seeing as etymologically they’re a pejorative for Slavic people. And that’s just the first example that comes to mind.

Things such as querying what windows are available, their titles, what window is focused, emulating keyboard input, querying for the mouse position.

It might run, but these features wouldn’t work, by design.

Hosenseller, I’m going into battle, I need your puffiest hosen.

Oh yeah, so it does. My client was showing it as deleted until I refreshed.

What were they wagering, I’m curious now.

Yeah, I tried giving it a shot twice, but both times after 5-6 hours I just came to the conclusion that the game wasn’t respecting my time, and was punishing me for exploring.

The worst part is that its popularity lead to other games copying it, meaning half of metroidvanias released after it have the same issues. I started to just filter out any game that had corpse runs as it was a good indicator of how much I’d hate it.

The term entropy isn’t wrong here, I was more referring to the other terms I was using. “Entropy” itself is heavily overloaded as a term, and some uses of it relate to information theory and combinatorics, i.e. information entropy, configuration entropy etc.
That’s the reasoning I’m going by here - in those uses the entropy of a system is directly proportional to the log of possible combinations a system can have, and clearly the bottom system is a lot more constrained than the top one.

I’m thinking about it more in a mathematical sense where the bottom system is more ordered by being more specific and having fewer analogous configurations. I’m possibly using the wrong terms here, but basically if you make a slight change to the top system, it will more likely remain analogous to the previous state than the bottom one. For example if you rotate one of the needles in the top image, it’s still the same thing, but if you rotate a needle in the bottom one it no longer matches the very specific pattern that it did before.

I really wish Linux would add GPU driver restarting like windows has. I think 99% of the time my kernel panics on any of my machines it’s because of amdgpu or the intel driver. Though I think windows implements this by having the driver be in userspace like Linux used to do with xorg drivers back in the day?