Quoting: vic-bayWhy HDMI cartel doesn't want HDMI on Linux? So more people won't use HDMI? Do they hate money, or did Microslop bribe them?

It's always about control. Even in this scale. Not so much about "money" (though that concept is a control mechanism itself too). What matters is power and natural resources, not some monopoly "money" (worthless in itself) or numbers on screens..

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Quoting: williamjcmI hope it'll get released as a Flatpak, because I don't like installing stuff through the AUR or pip.

Exactly. A flatpak or a snap or best both. It's BS for this day and age to not be able to install a damn app with a couple of clicks, honestly 😀

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GOG, don't look. DO.

Zoom Platform is the store to support for DRM free needs. They really embrace Linux.

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Quoting: Stellamy problem with Canonical is that they actively harm the Flatpak ecosystem. Kubuntu used to ship the flatpak backend, but Canonical got really angry at that and it got ripped out in favor of snaps. Requiring users to do an extra steps to install flatpaks is not user friendly at all

They didn't get angry LOL. Oh please. Ubuntu is concentrating on one packaging officially, their own, that they can audit and control. It's only wise. It's also a wish for their corporate customers.

Flatpak can be installed on Ubuntu in a whiff and they are not angry about that 😂

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Quoting: scratchiregardless of how they package it, if they can win a few more users over from Windows and increase overall Linux marketshare

Exactly. Sometimes it feels like some of these ppl think more about themselves, their choices being keen to push others to what THEY prefer and not the good of Linux overall 🤔

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Packaging for Linux is important to be easy and efficient. Flatpak and Snap are both great for creating a universal package distribution.

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What are you ppl up there talking about? Nothing needs to die, snap and flatpak are also very different. Both have their place and more. This is important. Everything is important to get to work correctly and well on Linux and we should support Canonical on this effort!

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Reminded me that there is a sale again on Steam too. So there i go again, to buy something just for their top notch Linux stance and support. GOG can still wait until they come up with current times (Linux support) :wink:

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Fortnite is available for Android. Does this mean Fortnite can soon be easily gamed on desktop Linux through Steam and those compat layers?

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Wild response or not, whole concept of "work life" is about to change. GenAI, AI, whatever AI. We're talking about AI, yes.

It's obvious that AI as a tool frees times already. Whether ppl turn it into pure free time is of course debatable. Inside many modern people is this programmed (early in life) code: "gotta gotta gotta".

There will be no human bus and cab drivers much longer in "developed countries". AI can be an extension to our own goals and even history. Modern brain can only take so much, and the information flood has made masses quite exhausted mentally, noticed or not. For example ancient hieroglyphs forgotten languages have been deciphered by AI in moments, whereas the human way would have taken years or even decades to reach the same (to make it readable for modern ppl). Factories? Certainly no need for "machine maintainers and button pushers" for much longer. It is "sad" that people lose these jobs, but it has happened before. Just have to find something else to make that buck (i suggested humanitarian work all around the world).

Also my message "freaked out" right off the bat as did ssj17vegeta's (though he talked about coding, same essence: human coding can be "replaced" (read: aided). This freaking out is because this is a sensitive subject and scary to those who assume that world will go on about unchanged in its lines for eternity. The truth is that people are simply just not "needed" on many areas of mechanical society anymore. Simple things and "jobs" automate increasingly and "just work".

Also hey: we're not talking the very now, this is just a beginning in "progress" if someone wants to call it that. It is here to stay and indeed is irreversible. We (or some of us) did this to ourselves to effect whole human collective. Now in this very beginning we can see huge impact:

Amazon is laying off approximately 14,000 corporate employees as part of organizational changes aimed at reducing bureaucracy and reallocating resources, particularly towards AI initiatives.

Especially such stuff as "bureaucracy" is definitely handled much more efficient in future by an automated and versatile AI-algorhithm than mentally tired over caffeinated office "workers". Why are they sitting there all day every day, indeed wasting their life, in the first place. I indeed see this as a chance to get that free time available more if individuals even aim for that. Monetary system itself then again, is a whole 'nother matter (problem). Natural resources (and those which are considered scarce, after research - are definitely not) are there with or without our printed moneys or screen moneys you know.

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