Quoting: Purple Library GuyI must admit I don't think I've ever seen the feature "Battle rival garbage collectors" before.

I've unfortunately had the displeasure of fighting rival garbage collectors in university where I was forced to touch Java in a course.

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Quoting: LightkeySimplified Chinese users (where Linux usage is near zero)

Really, someone's gotta do something about that.

I had this idea a few years ago to make a campaign to build cheap short ads for Linux and advertise the hell out of them in China and India. You target a third of the world population with just two languages, and they are generally countries where things are cheap (including advertising).

Brains are neural networks, so you repeat "Upgrade to Linux" enough, it's gonna get learned. Unfortunately I never found the time to seriously pursue that. Wanna take up the job?

The job would be:

- (Have someone) Create a sexy website for upgradetolinux.com etc. Have it be simple, and cool, and confidence inspiring, but contentwise be essentially like, here's an ubuntu image (or something we settle on as best for general public), install it with these instructions
- Get funding (I'm sure this will be easy given the numerous Linux enthusiasts)
- Make sexy very short ads (I have a lot of ideas for these)
- Coordinate with somebody in China and India to register these ads with radios, newspapers, tvs, billboards etc (as much as funding allows)

Anyone?

Edit: stating the obvious, but by sexy I mean "very good looking", not actually pornographic

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Quoting: Geppeto35The climax may be reached in the next couples of years when 1/ microsoft will end its low-cost key politics to fight against piracy and 2/ if they really make the new incoming windows with yearly or monthly subscription, as they have begun with Office and as rumor says about this next windows '12'?

I'm so glad, I don't need Windows any more, even for work. :)
Yet there have been so many things Microsoft did that made us think people would migrate to Linux... it sadly never really happened. 3rd party support, MS Office and laziness...

And microsoft knows very well why (and reinforces it): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in#Microsoft [External Link]

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Gaben is so overweight. At this point, my biggest fear for Linux is not the death of Linus, but the death of Gaben!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFunny thing is, I don't think I've ever actually used Big Picture mode. Never seemed like there was anything I wanted/needed to do that Big Picture mode would give me and the normal, um . . . small picture mode :grin:, wouldn't. Is this likely to change that?

You'd want this mode if you are connected to a tv and all you have is a controller. Only place I found that to be useful was that; on my GamerOS console.

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Quoting: whizseJust FYI it's a design pattern. It covers how the dock looks, not how it works.

They do not have a patent for RGB on the Steam Deck.

The comment stands. I find it absolutely ridiculous to patent something as trivial as "I put this at the bottom". For the very basic reason that it's too trivial to be an invention, anyone could have thought of that.

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> along with a patent application for it

Barf :sick:

WTF is this, LED lights are every tech student's first thing to try.

Oh wait, the LED lights are _under_ the dock you say? They even change colors? AND THE LENGTH OF THE BAR IS EXACTLY 11.567CM? What a rad new idea :woot:

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Quoting: ShabbyXDoes steam deck make it easy to switch accounts? If not, that would be my number one request. So me and my wife could share one deck without getting our games/progress/achievements mixed up (not that it matters much, but still nice to feel like it's your own user playing, not borrowing the other one's account)

The existing/launch Deck UI supports this brilliantly. You select your pfp in the top right, and one of the very last options is "change user". Once the second/third/etc users sign in, you get a quick select at boot/restart, and can choose to have a login pin.

Awesome thank!

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Quoting: PompesdeskySeems no one said it yet, I'd like a battery charging limit so that I can play with the AC plugged in without the device charging the battery to 100% and leaving it there. When you're exclusively playing plugged in it's a waste of battery life (it would degrade less in the long run if we could set a charge limit at 50 or 70%).

Pretty sure batteries no longer work that way.

Reference?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: ShabbyXPretty sure can't license code written against unity as GPL. That would require unity's code itself to be GPL-compatible.

I don't think so. The GPL license requires derivative code to be licensed under GPL, and obviously Unity is not derivative work, more like the opposite. It should be possible for you to write a GPL'd piece of code that plugs into a non-GPL system and still enforce all the requirements of GPL when it comes to your code. Obviously you cannot enforce them on the whole system.

Yeah . . . seems to me something like Unity is closest legally/conceptually to being like a programming language & compiler, and it's clearly possible (if not all that common) to compile GPL software on proprietary compilers.

Unity is not really a compiler, not even an interpreter. The application links against it. So no, this isn't the same as compiling with a proprietary compiler.

So Unity games have to include a copy of Unity with the game?

Yes? Not the editor or the tools obviously, but there's a lot of engine code linked with the application code; resource management, renderer, animation, physics etc.

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