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Quoting: llortonIf it's really Free speech™, I am looking forward to all the racial slurs, misinformation, and other nice things to be the main discourse on Twitter.

Frankly, if people are too stupid to be able discern the good from the bad in what they read, then they shouldn't even be on the internet in the first place.

Many are not. So, what to do, keep them out of the net?

Quoting: Mountain ManThis idea that we need media companies to "protect" us is a large part of the problem.

We need facts against FUD.

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(I didn't read all postings, just chiming in.)

Quoting: WMan22I just simply personally believe that when it comes to software projects that are unrelated to politics, politics should be quarantined as far away from it as possible unless the project is specifically and explicitly made to cover a political topic, since trouble brews in politics' wake that can damage or outright kill an otherwise perfectly functional thing that didn't need to die or become a source of stress due to unrelated IRL stuff.

This sounds good, but I deem it impossible. Inside Debian, there's been discussions if the Taiwanese flag should be part of the some country choosing dialogue. You can have trans or non-binary persons anywhere, and then people who like to use personal pronouns that those spoken to deem wrong. Have a weather forecast with coloured countries, what colour to give Crimea. The list goes on. There's no big space without politics.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThis is the one type of tool that EVERY OS should have build in. I don't know if macOS has one, but Gnome does, KDE does, Windows does not and I have to download the port of kdir (I think that is what it's called). I haven't used Filelight yet, but it seems very much like the Gnome version.

WinDirStat [External Link], the Windows port of KDirStat [External Link].

I'm still using the respective view of Konqueror, though:

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Quoting: elmapulanother thing to consider is that, if their margin for profit is too small, they might become unable to have an competitive hardware in the future, but that is an stretch.

It's very fortunate for us that they are a non-stock company (with enough money), so they can choose to continue on stuff with low or no margin if they want to.

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Quoting: KristianI never understood the people that are under the impression that Valve has stopped developing games. Valve employees artists, level designers, game designers and the like. What do they imagine these people do if not work on games?

Dunno.

But if you look at the list of their games [External Link], there's large gaps.

Dota 2 in 2013, fine. Never heard of Counter-Strike Online 2, Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies, Left 4 Dead: Survivors (an expansion, I guess?) or The Lab (water testing for VR it seems). Than there's infamous Artifact in 2018. Of course, Dota e.g. needs work during its life. But I'm not overwhelmed, to be honest. What do you imagine these people were working on?

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I can understand frustration there. Imagine you were a software developer working for a cool company with some of the coolest franchises out there - and you're not allowed to work on them, for years, for decades maybe...

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Quoting: elmapulbut it wont be enough to compete with things like switch or give it enough users to compete with windows.

They're already "competing with" the Switch. Both sell to the market of mobile gaming. That's competition.
(*edit* Looking up the translations to German [External Link], it seems "to compete with" can mean both, "be in a competition/market", as well as "winning the competition". Well, that's some wide field of meaning. :) )

And both sell well. Though you're sounding like Steam Deck could only be called successful if it sells more items than the Switch... I would call it a success if selling the devices plus selling more games yields more money than they paid for it. (And that would be leaving out the backdoor against Windows closed shop part.)

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Quoting: ChuckaluphagusIt makes managing their gaming time so much simpler and less contentious, because they know their game is waiting for them, undisturbed, the next time they are able to play. It's like night-and-day when compared to most PC gaming, or other consoles.

Never thought of this one. Nice.

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Quoting: GuestWith most games, the PS5 achieves higher FPS than this Xbox, although the Xbox has more 'TFLOPS'. So again, it's not the hardware that makes the difference, but the software.

Linux has more support for gaming, but purely technically, FreeBSD is heavily superior in several of the most relevant areas.

I didn't read 19 pages of comments, but I wonder why you're not comparing different OSs on the same hardware if you want to find out which OS is better. Put them on the same SSD, GPU, CPU, ... and do some measurement?

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOh well, such is life.

Yes. ... but it shouldn't. ;)

For the senders: If you think something sucks, don't say someone sucks.
For the receivers: If someone says something sucks, don't (miss)interpret it as someone (you) sucks.

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