It’s just the shit design of Android: no bios and firmware must be bundled in the rom

They only exist to exploit volunteers to reduce development costs

I’ve got a bit of experience with NVIDIA Optimus laptops on Linux so here’s some questions:

• What exactly is the problem?

• Are games not running on NVIDIA?

In this case you need to add an environment variable to the launch options in steam, the name of which has escaped me (should be on OPTIMUS page of Arch wiki)

• Or is the driver not working at all?

• What desktop environment/wm are they using?

For example if you’re using GNOME in the settings program in the about the system section (the last one) and in the System information dialog check to make sure it says something like “NVIDIA GTX 1050 Mobile”. Also make sure the NVIDIA driver program shows up with the other apps

While off-topic, I’m of the opinion that Arch only exists to support elitists which relates to the comment.

• Arch isn’t always the most up to date
• It isn’t very reliable
• It doesn’t try to be any easier to use (won’t even work with GNOME software)
• It’s not as straight forward to contribute to like, say, Void Linux which causes issues with burnt-out and busy maintainers
• It installs the the bare minimum so stuff won’t always work
• The only real benefit is you get a smaller install size (x86 only) and maybe some more customisablility.

But for some reason it gets treated like an ideal for every Linux user to reach. It’s supposedly like to going to the Olympics as an elite athlete. An Arch system needs more work to maintain, but there isn’t really much to gain

Agreed. Spend the the time learning something meaningful like programming not how to configure certain bits of software to save a couple of MB.

Electron was made for Atom and I think, though I’m not 100% that code is based on Atom

Why make new apps, we should be focusing on rewriting everything in Rust /s

Electron can be done well, like vscode does. In saying that, it almost never seems to happen

To be fair the extension developers were given quite a while to update their extensions to use JavaScript modules instead of the custom GNOME solution. This was actually a change for the better and unlikely to happen again which should make extension development easier. As for better tiling look up their mosaic thing which was announced a while ago, though I’m unsure as to how soon that will come out.

Also try to remember that GNOME is developed mostly by volunteers who frankly owe you nothing

Hell will freeze over before he accepts a pull request on GitHub or uses Issues for discussions. I believe his behaviour serves only to scare away contributors and embolden elitists.

Depends on what you’re doing at University. I was using Arch but an update caused CUDA to stop working so I couldn’t work on an assignment. Why did it stop working? They updated CUDA to 12.3 days before updating the NVIDIA driver to a version which supported CUDA. The maintainers are mostly negligent and the community is rather toxic so I’d avoid Arch for that kind of thing. NixOS looks interesting and has lots of benefits however, for a dedicated University computer I would recommend using the most boring Linux distro available like Fedora or Ubuntu.

Though the difference is AUR packages aren’t officially supported or tested and are commonly out of date. They also need to be built on your system

I’m not sure (I’m about to install it for the first time - on this computer) - According to this all you need to do is:

# nix-channel --add https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-23.11 nixos
# nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

If to forgive is divine either hell doesn’t exist or god isn’t divine…

I switchee to Arch the other month, its been alright except for CUDA getting an update before the NVIDIA driver so I couldn’t run my assignment locally. But I assume that’s my fault because Arch maintainers are all care and no responsibility.

I might be looking into NixOS soon

The thing is with a small app ads pay f all compared to the ongoing development costs. $100usd a year for Apple developer license, recent Mac and time spent developing it.

How about those mobile ones where they gradually move in from the sides to form a border around the content until you tell them to fuck off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufg-6zimdlw

What’s even worse is that when they use SI units they don’t even spell them right. They write meters whereas the rest of the world writes metres

Linux isn’t inherently bad at gaming, it’s more like games are bad at Linux