Quoting: Nateman1000

Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: Teomyr

Quoting: Nateman1000not everyone has the time or resources to set up their own server, LET ALONE THEIR OWN DNS AND EMAIL.

You make it sound like it's a massive job or really expensive. Yes, it does take a few hours initially setting everything up, but then it's like a few hours a year running a server with DNS, email, web and gitlab. Hosting somewhere sure also cost a little bit if you don't have a permanent IP at home, but for a small server it's maybe 10 € per month. I say it's always worth it to avoid all the problems of using someone else's server. DNS especially is dead simple and there is no reason anyone even slightly technically competent should not run their own server. You can even do it on a dynamically assigned IP. That way you avoid all the spying and censoring.

Of course it's not for everyone and their grandmother but this thread was about people trying to develop an emulator and if you can program on that level you really should be able to set up your own Gitlab server or I am definitely going to question your competence.

He just said "not everyone" referring to the same people who forked the main repo, the ones you were talking about, right?

It's clear that if you don't know how to setup a webserver and so on there's quite a time consuming difference between clicking a fork button and learning the skills needed to host your own service.

I really hate how the Linux community attitudes towards any problem for beginners is to tell them to just use their over complicated method and not be beginners. Nobody needs to know how to set up their own email server in the year 2024. You can if you want to. Nobody needs to know how to set up their own DNS. You can if you want to. That is an EXTREMELY UNREASONABLE bar for tech literacy

I've to say it's not the whole community to act that way and, to a certain extent, I understand both parts.

Eg. newcomers often wont make any effort to learn something a bit more complicated, even if this is bound bilaterally to the whole ecosystem.
I'm not speaking about compiling from source, but I sense that even basic things like properly use the distro package manager seem to be a problem lately.

This puts stress on the whole community because either of the so called help vampires, or because simpler but far less efficient alternatives like flatpaks, appimages or dockers are growing to accomodate for their needs, mining the basis of the ecosystem itself.

Btw, those problems are not tied to the Linux community; I remember to have asked a lazy Windows developer where I could find documentation for a particular feature, and he kindly pointed me to read the whole source :)

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Quoting: Teomyr

Quoting: Nateman1000not everyone has the time or resources to set up their own server, LET ALONE THEIR OWN DNS AND EMAIL.

You make it sound like it's a massive job or really expensive. Yes, it does take a few hours initially setting everything up, but then it's like a few hours a year running a server with DNS, email, web and gitlab. Hosting somewhere sure also cost a little bit if you don't have a permanent IP at home, but for a small server it's maybe 10 € per month. I say it's always worth it to avoid all the problems of using someone else's server. DNS especially is dead simple and there is no reason anyone even slightly technically competent should not run their own server. You can even do it on a dynamically assigned IP. That way you avoid all the spying and censoring.

Of course it's not for everyone and their grandmother but this thread was about people trying to develop an emulator and if you can program on that level you really should be able to set up your own Gitlab server or I am definitely going to question your competence.

He just said "not everyone" referring to the same people who forked the main repo, the ones you were talking about, right?

It's clear that if you don't know how to setup a webserver and so on there's quite a time consuming difference between clicking a fork button and learning the skills needed to host your own service.

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For Github operators is as easy to track which is/was a fork as you hit the button [fork].
To make it harder for them to find you, you could clone locally, create a new repo and upload it ex-novo.
Clone today, upload in a month or so would be even better.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: kokoko3kQuite confused about the Linux support, what does it mean? It was already GPL licensed and available at least via aur in Archlinux since April, 25.

Now it has an official package from the developer, available for basically any distribution. It's really not complicated.

Gotcha, since I was already feeling supported by the source code, I feared I was missing something critical.

Thank you very much for the explaination!

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Quite confused about the Linux support, what does it mean? It was already GPL licensed and available at least via aur in Archlinux since April, 25.

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"How do you feel about Advanced Access?"
Can't care less, but if someone wants to pay for it... why not?

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: ShabbyXAre we no longer too few to ignore? :)

I blame AI.
All those AI training servers run Linux and NIVIDIA is raking in big bucks, because of them.
A better driver might just what keeps in front of the competition.

AFAIK, that's a compute/CUDA territory where Nvidia driver have no problems and no matches.

Instead, I think it all comes to the need for Nvidia to (finally) better integrate with the Linux driver subsystem which would in turn imply being more open.

Maybe there's nothing to blame, let's hope for good.

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Quote[..]the difficulty in securing it is only compounded by all the frustrating differences between distributions.

The world upside down.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: kokoko3k> A number that is getting steadily
> harder for developers of all kinds
> to ignore.

On the other side, it seems we can grow even without all of them :)

Well, one thing I've increasingly noticed about Linux is the software ecosystem is for a lot of things actually pretty decent now . . . and free, and available right in the distro's software centre thingie. On Mac, I suspect open source software is quite hard to run. And on Windows you can do it, but you have to be aware of it and go searching for each individual piece. So on both, there's a tendency to just go with the expensive stuff which these days is often crappy subscription services. For people without big budgets, you can actually be limited in what you can use your computer for just because you don't want to buy (or bloody rent!) the software and you don't know there's another way. On Linux, if I suddenly find that I need to do Z, I may look on the menus and find that something for Z is already installed, but if not I go to the distro's software centre thingie and type in a search term and download and now I can do Z.

So although it's technically true that the Windows software ecosystem is still bigger and for some use-cases better, functionally for a lot of people it's probably the other way around. That wasn't true back in the 2000s.

I agree, our distribution method is far superior, among other advantages, in the sense that is one centralized thing.

Unfortunately not everyone seem to fully understand that, so there is a proliferation of unofficial external repos, and flatpaks, and co, that mine its nature and in the long run they can make us regress.

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> A number that is getting steadily
> harder for developers of all kinds
> to ignore.

On the other side, it seems we can grow even without all of them :)

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