I’m not one of them, but what makes them idiots? Seems kind of uncalled for.

It’s obviously a play on the common phrase that the honest guy ends up being the idiot. Not because the honest guy is stupid but because the honesty ends up backfiring. It’s used all the time in video game DRM contexts.

Why did you link to another Lemmy post instead of submitting the article?

Would you prefer being a subject of Intel and AMD’s perpetual x86 duopoly forever?

That’s not how patents work. x64 patents lapse sometime THIS YEAR. Everyone can make 64bit x86 CPUs.

RISC-V and ARM exist. You can buy laptops based on either of these architectures for a very reasonable price, compared to Intel and AMD’s x86 offerings.

Have fun dealing with that Device Tree bullshit because hardware autodetection is so 1998.

Gaming industry is way bigger than movie industry. Almost everyone plays games.

Most money goes into mobile money traps, though.

That’s pretty much what GNU is about, just technologically superior.

The headline is claiming that.

Welcome to the internet and clickbait headlines.

let’s not pretend they’re solely responsible for the memory pricing crisis.

Nobody is claiming that. Did you even read the literal first sentence of the article?

the memory pricing crisis that its own AI ambitions are helping cause

I really don’t get this latest series if tantrums from LibreOffice/The Document Foundation. They are attacking every other up-and-coming open source document project.

That’s how Italo Vignoli is. He’s been a source of toxic hatred even back in the OpenOffice split days, when Sun handed OpenOffice to Apache, he attacked OO because they didn’t transfer the trademark to him.

The same happened more recently with Collabora Office. Collabora developed a web frontend for LibreOffice, for whatever reason not as part of the LibreOffice project, then Collabora’s LO contributors were kicked out of TDF / LO development, and then TDF announced a competitor.

I keep using LO because as a tool it works for me but every single time I see statements by Italo Vignoli, he comes off as totally unbearable.

Most non native games run okay under the emulation layers

That’s not the point. The point is commitment of Microsoft to its own platform and that’s lacking ever since the release of the first Surface RT over a decade ago.

Apple doesn’t just not port Apple Chess because it would run okay under emulation. Of course they ported everything. For years Microsoft didn’t even port VS Code despite the fact that even back then it was based on Chromium which already worked fine on ARM platforms.

Surface RT came out in 2012, VS Code in 2015, and the ARM port only in 2020! Madness! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/visual-studio-code-c-extension-arm-and-arm64-support/

Because legislation related to Stop Killing Games has not yet passed.

Every single game except Microsoft Solitaire Collection of the Windows Store.

Other than that, the only ARM platforms Microsoft Gaming Studios support are Nintendo Switch, iPhone, and Android.

If only the world’s largest game publisher, owner of Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Minecraft, and Xbox, would port their games to this Microsoft machine. Too bad this will never happen because Microsoft and that publisher, whose name escapes me at the moment, don’t cooperate.

You’d still be relying on Nvidia’s userspace blob for graphics. As you perhaps know, Nvidia drivers are always only one unimplemented feature away from functional parity with Mesa drivers that Radeons and Intel GPUs use.

Admittedly, not before there is Linux support.

It’s still Nvidia hardware. Fuck Nvidia.

I would assume those people will look at Microsoft’s track record of supporting ARM hardware, realize that the vast majority of Microsoft’s own software still does not run on ARM natively (14 years after Surface RT launched!), and buy a MacBook Pro instead.

I’m voluntarily paying for my LW account but the admins don’t know whose money transfer belongs to which account.

In the US it will be all rusty old death traps.

This description already applies to new Cybertrucks.

Couple things there are many computer users that don’t play games like for example me.

And in which credible statistic are those?

Enterprise Linux is not the same as a container

Of course not but you didn’t specifically say desktop-only Ubuntu/… installs and Ubuntu is still very popular in containers that never see any desktop. Ubuntu also ships Plasma, flagship DE or not.

I’m not sure there are more Steam OS installs than RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installs.

Of course not, if you phrase it like that. According to your phrasing non-desktop container setups also count but they don’t.

Distributions like Ubuntu also ship Plasma. The preconfigured disk image is called Kubuntu but that’s still Ubuntu and counts as that in Steam’s surveys which I consider the most reliable source of what actual GUI Linux users actually use.