OpenTyrian. Classic DOS shmup made free and ported to Android long ago.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.opentyrian
SuperTux had an Android port for ages, but they delisted it from Play Store for some reason. You still can get .apk file here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libsdl-android/files/apk/SuperTux/
The update from Debian 12 took me four hours. It works. Plasma did not load so I had to clear old configuration files and configure it anew. Plasma on Wayland is actually usable now, and looks stable so far. And I’ve got new wallpapers I’ve so desired.
And now it’s time to forget about OS updates for another two years.
In many successful revolutions, an army was a part of uprising. Serving in the army does not make you any less of a voter.
Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.
People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.
Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it’s users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.
10 GB storage for default installation, 4 GB storage for commandline-only installation, 403 GB storage if you install every Debian package under the sun.
Gonna update my dated Debian 12. Those old KDE wallpapers already look unfashionable.
If you ever need to disable SELinux, your software distribution is trash, or you bought some unsupported piece of hardware with crap Linux drivers. Or you are writing kernel drivers and it’s your test machine.
What the user really needs is to launch an app in a secure sandbox with two mouse clicks, not an easier way to edit SELinux rules. Linux software distributions focus too much on technology, but don’t provide the finished user-facing solution with this technology, that’s the problem #4.
I’ve used it on Bookworm for like a month, then gave up and switched to X11.
Nope, plasma-session crash means all your windows are goooone.
If it’s only plasma-desktop or kwin crash, you can generally restart it from a terminal, and you need one terminal window open at all times to do that, since you won’t be able to launch a new window with no desktop, or you try to launch it from the text console, which works badly because it won’t see your plasma-session environment.
Time to download new Plasma bugs! I just hope it will decrease crashing frequency to once per week with Wayland backend, with Bookworm it was once per day, which is not fun if you need to keep several windows open.
AI coding tools are using the exact same backends as AI fiction writing tools, so it would hurt the fledgling vibe coder profession (which according to proper software developers should not be allowed to exist at all).
Install Gentoo, sex (with the command line) guaranteed.
Just leave it on the stove on maximum heat for one hour after each use, then chip off the carbonized chunks of asphalt that you’ve just created. 100% sterilized, no washing required, and smells just like your big bad diesel pickup exhaust.
No-user-interface Linux would look like this
This means Trump can finally de-fund them
Yes, OpenGL is an open specification, it has multiple proprietary implementations, and an open-source implementation (MESA). DirectX 3D is a proprietary specification with proprietary implementations (and one open-source implementation in Wine), but it’s essentially the same graphics driver API as OpenGL.
OpenGL uses multiple GPU cores, but GPU is controlled by a single CPU core. GPU does most of the work of course, but for some operations, like uploading a lot of textures when loading a level, or drawing a dynamic geometry with a lot of triangles, CPU becomes a bottleneck.
Back in the '90s, when you created a game, you had to build three separate game engines for DOS, Windows, and MacOS, with their separate audio and video drivers. Or you just selected DOS and ignored all Mac users.
SDL was revolutionary, it could create an OS window for you to draw onto (or emulate a full-screen ‘window’ for DOS), and output 2D video and sound using the same SDL calls, on DOS, Windows, MacOS, Linux, AmigaOS, and even Sony PlayStation. So you had the same source code compiling to 6 different game binaries for each platform.
SDL does not implement 3D graphics, it just initializes OpenGL in a window and passes that to your code, because the game studios went all ‘fuck you I’m using OpenGL or I’m ignoring your XBOX entirely’ so even Microsoft was forced to support OpenGL on top of it’s incompatible proprietary DirectX 3D drivers, so OpenGL became the new standardized cross-platform API for 3D graphics.
Vulkan is a replacement for OpenGL which can use multiprocessor architecture, OpenGL is strictly single-threaded so your high-end 12-core gaming CPU ends up with one overworked core drawing all the graphics and 11 lazy cores performing Windows update in the background. The rules are already established, so every GPU and chip manufacturer will either support Vulkan or not have 3D graphics at all.
Time savings in today’s economics would be completely negated by waiting two hours in line at the airport.