The only thing MS has to do is not fuck up and use extremely archaic or extremely obscure manufacturer-specific technologies in order to have linux compatibility.
They failed to do that, which also means (and reviews show) this game has serious issues on lots of windows devices as well. Since everything that causes poor performance on linux at this point will also cause poor performance on some windows setups.
So generally you got three things happening that give the illusion it happens way more than it really does. Choctaw/Chinese/White mix btw. Yes that order is weird.
Anyway:
White Americans want an identity, and the one they’re born with is broken. The US education system really, really fails to define ‘White’ in any way that makes sense, because as an identity it doesn’t make sense unless you’re racist. Most white Americans actually do understand this, and either embrace it while secretly denying it, or do anything possible to deny they were the ‘bad whites’ and that just happens to be their skin colour and then overcorrect and cling onto any identity they can find in their family history which brings us to:
They probably are mixed somewhere around 1850-1920. Statistically they are. Lots of what are now white people mixed with brown skinned people during this time. During this time period Natives that were ‘integrated’ into society had their identity stolen and they were rebranded as either ‘mulatto,’ ‘the old word for black,’ or ‘Mexican/Latin (if they were in a real fancy area.)’ During this time in American history many “white” ethnicities were not considered white, most famously Irish and Italians were lumped in with the ‘slur for black people,’ which included pretty much all natives at that time that weren’t backstabbing their brothers and sisters by sucking up to the whites (not naming tribes but some tribes did end up better than others for some mysterious reason). So guess what happens when a bunch of disparate communities get together? They mix. The mixing was also encouraged by every single christian group in order to help ‘mellow out’ the native influence (i.e. actual cultural genocide to the survivors of the big genocide). It was also encouraged by a minority of natives themselves, i.e. if you mix with a white person you get their money/protection/you won’t be as subject to violence. This was ultimately wrong as an idea and was never a majority view… but it happened.
also rape and forced marriage if they are white but not italian or irish. Statistically that’s a thing, especially if they’re more than 1/128 and over 30.
That also brings us to:
For white people that don’t care that much and don’t want to go through that trouble but want to belong to the native group for clout, just saying they’re related gives them that feel good ‘I’m a real american, I’m special and not just white, I can’t be the bad white because my alleged ancestor suffered.’
To really narrow down the problem, the white identity sucks for obvious reasons unless you want to go full racist. The American identity sucks if you’re white skinned, because of the whole genocide thing, also it’s too new, too cosmopolitan, and not real to most other people. And most white americans have no cultural basis from their immigrant past because either they had to integrate to survive, it’s shameful, or they come from the whites that hated the countries they were from (i.e. the English whites.)
This leads to any attempt to latch onto something they’re missing at their core, mainly due to the natural alienation that comes for everyone under capitalism, but especially in a cosmopolitan nation built to integrate everyone under a constructed identity.
Everything updates faster than apt, and AppImages just work if that’s the standard we’re going with.
White is a bloat colour, it takes more energy for your monitor to display white than any other colour since white is all parts of the LED on.
0/10, you’re worse than a ai data center.
It’s less that and just the absolute ridiculous scope creep of systemd. Again it was meant to just replace init. All it needs to do is boot the kernel and run at launch services, and people disagree on that last part.
It shouldn’t be basically a second layer to the kernel in both application and necessity.
Why are people using flatpak again?
Yeah just because they build cages for kids in the desert near the border doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen! It’s just optional infrastructure in case you want to put your kids in a cage. It’s totally voluntary.
Linux is a secure operating system, windows is not. Making kernel level anti-cheat for Linux is difficult, and should be functionally impossible; as kernel level anticheat is absolutely no different than malware in its attack vector on the kernel. This means, for lazy dev teams, they can’t implement the laziest possible method of anticheat, which they get upset about since they have lost all ability to actually have anti-cheat teams.
Is your hardware ten years old or more?
Do you want a system made up of software that is on average 3 years old?
Do you want absolutely ridiculous stability for the uptime memes?
Are you a fan of the idea that every design decision should be done by a committee of theoretically democratically chosen developers but is actually just whoever wants the job because there is never any real transparency or motion about when the meetings are, much less when elections are?
Does the idea of your operating system being compatible not because its good but because it’s just the largest base thanks to corporate investment make you moist?
Then pick Debian.
If you answered no to literally any of those options then go ahead and pick an Arch flavor, or Arch itself.
Because distros don’t do it differently. Different DEs sometimes deviate from the established standards and practices. It’s not a distro change, it’s whatever weird little DE you use that decided to do something stupid.
That being said .desktop is a unified standard with unified documentation implemented in a fairly unified way across various DEs, with the only difference is some DEs support finding desktop files in some extra folder locations.
Every distro could maintain a complete list of popular DEs and a link to the documentation, or people could just look it up for the DEs they use and target. I agree there should, at this point in time, be some standard service to just call and handle desktop files that all DEs use that way application level developers can just call that same service and everything gets put everywhere it needs to be, but given the controversy of systemd, there’s not going to be a universal solution for that since this is absolutely not a kernel-level service that needs to happen.
The other comments go over it more thoroughly but let’s more directly connect it to this idea; specifically this post is talking about Star Trek rules for teleportation.
This type of teleportation is that your body is scanned down to the exact spin of every quantum particle and wave, then it is destroyed entirely, and turned into energy by one machine. This information is encoded in a data stream that can be saved, stored, and reused at any point. Then. Somewhere else, a different machine reads that data, and fully recreates you down to the spin in the quantum particles making up the arbitrary concept of ‘you.’
In order for data to be stored or retrieved it has to be unchanging, predictable. If every time you opened your company’s spreadsheets they changed randomly one would assume something is terribly wrong somewhere in the system. This essentially means that by some method you are able to determine the exact ‘data’ involved at any give point.
When we extend this to ‘consciousness,’ we then have the natural consequence of these facts being that consciousness itself is determinable. That there is some set of predictable things that can be done to generate a person that believes they are conscious. If there is truly no difference between the person that was killed, and the person that was made, then the natural consequence of this is consciousness itself is deterministic, i.e. there is a set of predictable interactions that given infinite time and infinite resources you could compute.
If, then, there is a predictable set of interactions that can form consciousness; then like all other predictable interactions we would be able to trace its start, its source of these interactions to the start of the universe. Which would mean there is no possible variance of what could have happened. 1 + 1 will always equal 2. Every single time. We can derive that to mean a + b will always equal c. Which if true, would mean that given the exact starting point of all energy in the universe, we can perfectly predict, or recreate, the universe.
This has the logical consequence of meaning there is no other outcome than what has happened; and what will happen has already been determined. This isn’t just the generality of ‘fate’ or ‘destiny,’ this is down to every single specific micro interaction, including your thoughts.
In this world, should it exist, the fact you read this comment was determined at the start of the universe. Name a struggle ‘you’ overcame. You couldn’t have failed at it. You didn’t struggle. You were always going to do exactly whatever you did. You didn’t have a choice to fail. You didn’t have a choice, period. You didn’t achieve anything. You can’t achieve things, because achievement implies an alternative. You don’t have the luxury of alternatives in a deterministic universe. Everything will always play out exactly the same, no matter how many times the underlying equations of the universe are solved.
Consciousness being deterministic, as evidenced by being able to be perfectly copied and arbitrarily pasted, means that there is no choice involved in life. That no choices have ever been made. By anyone. At any time. And never will be. I didn’t choose to write this comment. You didn’t choose to read it. Your thoughts about it are not yours, just the result of an electrochemical reaction that is a small part of the equations that started this universe. You literally can’t choose to act on them and reply, whether or not you reply was decided for you before light as a concept happened to form in the universe.
Free will, as a concept, posits exactly one thing. That an individual entity with free will can choose something. That they are not being led along a predetermined track with no ability to simply stop and get off. This concept is entirely at odds with a deterministic universe, as no choice can be made once the universe ‘starts.’
So, in order for free will to exist, we cannot be in a fully deterministic universe, or at the very least consciousness and that which it affects has to be non-deterministic. There must not be an equation possible that could describe it. So then why is that incompatible with Star Trek style teleportation?
If there is no way to determine consciousness then there is no way to ensure whatever you have ‘copied’ is the same thing as what you are ‘pasting.’ You are indeed killing a person, then recreating their flesh suit in hopes ‘they’ go along with it. Without understanding consciousness better, which would require understanding (but clearly not being able to mathematically describe) a non-deterministic system, there would be no possible way to ensure this new creation of yours could ever be the same entity.
Yes, sure, the future has been predetermined in a deterministic universe. But if no person in that universe can ever figure out what that future is going to be, is there any practical distinction?
Yes.
Yes there is.
Even if I don’t know the answer to an equation I can be reasonably sure that the equation will not change half way through working it out. To someone theoretically conscious in the middle of said equation, their ignorance of the outcome does not change the fact the outcome for them does not depend on their feeling about it.
To that ignorant internal observer there is no effective difference, but that’s worse in my opinion. Being delusional that you have a choice in anything you do despite any outside observer being able to tell you you don’t. This does not enable free will, this only causes the delusion of free will. One must imagine characters in a book would have this delusion, if they existed in some form.
Again in a deterministic universe we are akin to those book characters, not the author. No matter what happens we have not written the next page. We have had no influence on the next page. We are simply ignorant of that page until it is read by time, or rather until our limited ability to observe catches up with the next page. To us as those characters we wouldn’t know we don’t have free will, but this doesn’t mean it exists. It is written already regardless.
That is what deterministic reality means. And if you can exactly replicate a consciousness, that is the indication we’re in an deterministic universe.
How do you change an equation from within said equation?
Free will, presumably, is the ability to choose. Or at the very least the ability to change an action from a predetermined course.
If consciousness derives from a series of physical interactions, i.e. you are just a set of electrochemical reactions that follow deterministic (i.e. unchanging no matter how many times it happens) physics, you cannot change anything. Every thought that you have ever thought was determined before electrons formed in the universe. Every single action the collection of waves and particles you arbitrarily call ‘you’ happened all at once at the start of the universe, we’re just seeing it happen slowly.
If consciousness is deterministic, there is no concept of free will, you are in the middle of a mathematical formula being solved, nothing more or less. You have no ability to change your fate, or choose anything. Even your reaction to this idea was determined before the universe was cold enough for light to exist.
Therefore, we should hope consciousness, if nothing else in the universe, is not deterministic. That there is no ability to stop or restart it here. That there isn’t a way to copy it, or paste it. Otherwise no human has ever chosen anything, even a single thought in their head.
The problem with chaos theory and its ilk is it’s frame of reference is so pathetically human.
No, humans even with computer aid will not be able to predict a sufficiently chaotic system, but that doesn’t mean its not predictable.
That’s the definition of deterministic. That given infinite compute time and an accurate starting state, and accurate formulas, you are able to calculate the totality of any single point of time in that system. In other words, if the universe were a single equation, i.e. Δe=(mc²)t and you knew the starting values of e, m, and c; you could fill in the t(ime) and figure out the Δe at any point in time.
That fact doesn’t change if there are a infinite number of items in the formula, or even infinite formulas – there will never be any other outcome to those equations than what was set in motion at the start of the universe. Free will, i.e. true deviation from determinism, cannot exist in a deterministic universe. Without deviation from determinism, without free will, we are not participants in the universe. We are observers. We cannot change any thing, even how we think about the fact we are observers.
Every thought you’re having right now, in a deterministic universe, was determined the second the universe started. Every action you’ve taken, including writing this comment, was set in stone. There was never a single thing you could do to change it, there was never anything else that would have ever happened, there is no variance with these starting conditions that this universe started with.
If you are just the result of mathematical formulas being resolved in real time, you cannot change the variables. You aren’t part of setting the equation. You are a blip in it being solved.
For most people, that’s depressing. For some people, this being proven will cause them to kill themselves, which would have been again set in stone before the Earth was formed. For anyone this should be distressing, unless, of course, you were programmed at the start of the universe to not find it distressing and just be okay with being an unwilling actor in a movie recorded before the concept of light existed.
Which would be terrible, genuinely speaking. Proving that to yourself in what is essentially suicide from anything other than a deterministic viewpoint is an extreme most will simply never do.
Most people do not accept nor want to think that they are merely watching a movie. Most people want to believe they have struggled. That they have suffered. That they have overcome that suffering. That their choices lead, at least in part, to the success or failure of the things in their life.
Without free will, the concept of choice does not exist. Struggle and suffering were built in. Whether or not you got through it has nothing to do with you. You have not accomplished anything, you will never accomplish anything. Not that there is a meaningful definition of ‘You’ in a purely deterministic universe; anymore than there is a definition of the viewer of a movie from the universe within that movie.
Because then that means free will can’t exist.
Deterministic universes disallow any concept of free will or variance beyond what was calculated at the very femtosecond the universe started. Nothing is possible except what has happened and will happen.
That’s called addiction, and using religion to fix it is replacing one addiction with another.
The solution to addiction is accountability, not pretending the voice in your head is an all powerful deity, much less one that has explicitly abandoned you if you actually follow the Torah.
KDE wayland has global hotkeys, so does hyprland. seems like a skill issue for Wayfire.