If you disagree with my opinions then it is incumbent upon you to provide evidence
I can disagree with your opinion all I like with equal validity because your opinion is factually baseless. See Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster... however if religious nonsense on the basis that it cannot be disproven is your thing then by all means carry on.
Second and more important thing, you quoted stats (hard to call them stats really, more like anecdote, but playing along with you here) from 2012 and 2013. Got anything better? Otherwise, meh, no discernible point in evidence.
Well I haven't researched it extensively no, but have you got any stats to back up your assertions re: piracy on Linux? You claim it is low yet provide no evidence whatsoever, not even a few years old.
How is that confusing? You're unaware of Android? A widely used Linux system with a massiverate of piracy?
Point is it is absolutely nothing to do with Linux or "Linux users". If you have alternative statistics on what the piracy rate is on Linux then I'd be happy to see them (and no, your anecdotes are not evidence or statistics).
BTW, clean-shaven here. But I assume that you have a smooth spot where balls should be.
Ouch! Nice try on the "clean-shaven" bit but you've outed yourself as the perfect stereotype with your admission that the concept of a woman is completely foreign to you. HINT: not everybody has balls.
Making Netflix harder to use on Apple Products, will make the product owners have to choose between getting new hardware, or switching services.
Airplay wouldn't even be necessary if Apple TV weren't such a shitty experience, that remote is absolutely horrendous.
Being that Netflix isn't in the business of selling Netflix boxes, that will mean a drop in customers for Netflix, as a good number (I expect 20%) would stick with Apple and Drop Netflix.
Why? You can still use Netflix on Apple TV, it's just a crap experience because the Apple TV interaction model is horrendous.
The benefit of rendering on Linux is the clustering, you're not running Blender there, in fact artists don't care what OS is running on the render farm.
I thought you just needed to make a build for Flatpak or perhaps for Steam Runtime. What am I missing?
Unless you're using a Slackware distribution, then there's also AppImage or Snap depending on your requirements and targeted users, see the issue is fragmentation.
Yeah I can't imagine Microsoft's PR department really gives a shit about a slashdot comment thread, it's a nice theory to try and deflect criticism though.
Sure they do! Everybody learned how to use a modern smartphone thanks to the iPhone, people learn to use new applications on their computers every day but the reason they do that is because it comes with some significant benefit. For example I can certainly see value for 3d animators in learning software like Blender - and a lot of them do - but whether they run it on Windows or Linux or macOS is pretty much irrelevant.
Windows releases used to be good for **10 YEARS** (mainstream plus extended).
But you had to update them along the way right? Like they do still support Windows 7 but can you get the latest security patches if you haven't even installed SP1?
This is traditionally referred to as the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Well no, it isn't. That would require it to be a feature tying it specifically to some Microsoft product or platform. The "Extend" that you refer to is creating proprietary, non-portable extensions that don't work on other vendors' platforms.
Apple seems to be falling into the Microsoft trap where it doesn't matter if quality goes down so long as sales still go up. macOS, like Windows, has applications that do not run on other platforms so the problem is that people stop buying the product because they want it and start buying it because they need it.
The cloud component is only one side of the evolving game market, the other side of it is the access that everybody has to a dozen or so AAA game engines for free! The bar for entry to game development has never been lower, even hobbyists have the choice of Source, Unreal, Unity, CryEngine with one of the pioneers of PC game modding, idTech, being the exception.
Look at PUBG, that came along thanks to accessibility to the Unreal engine.
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Go find your own evidence, it is abundant.
I'm not making your argument for you just because you can't make it yourself.
Please quit being a disingenuous pest.
Hey you're the one playing the game and it's so much fun pestering you and pointing out your inability to make a cogent argument :P :P :P
If you disagree with my opinions then it is incumbent upon you to provide evidence
I can disagree with your opinion all I like with equal validity because your opinion is factually baseless. See Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ... however if religious nonsense on the basis that it cannot be disproven is your thing then by all means carry on.
Did I say that, or did you put words in my mouth?
"You don't see Linux users pirating stuff, that's vanishingly rare."
Any evidence to back that up?
I don't doubt there is high rates of piracy on iOS, however there doesn't appear to be any evidence to suggest Linux is any better.
Of course I meant free as in freedom.
You said they want freedom yet the only evidence you have for Linux users paying for software is for non-free software.
Second and more important thing, you quoted stats (hard to call them stats really, more like anecdote, but playing along with you here) from 2012 and 2013. Got anything better? Otherwise, meh, no discernible point in evidence.
Well I haven't researched it extensively no, but have you got any stats to back up your assertions re: piracy on Linux? You claim it is low yet provide no evidence whatsoever, not even a few years old.
How is that confusing? You're unaware of Android? A widely used Linux system with a massive rate of piracy?
Point is it is absolutely nothing to do with Linux or "Linux users". If you have alternative statistics on what the piracy rate is on Linux then I'd be happy to see them (and no, your anecdotes are not evidence or statistics).
When you said they want "freedom" I assumed you meant in the context of software, i.e. Free Software ... I guess you meant something else.
BTW, clean-shaven here. But I assume that you have a smooth spot where balls should be.
Ouch! Nice try on the "clean-shaven" bit but you've outed yourself as the perfect stereotype with your admission that the concept of a woman is completely foreign to you. HINT: not everybody has balls.
Thanks for playing, better luck next time.
Making Netflix harder to use on Apple Products, will make the product owners have to choose between getting new hardware, or switching services.
Airplay wouldn't even be necessary if Apple TV weren't such a shitty experience, that remote is absolutely horrendous.
Being that Netflix isn't in the business of selling Netflix boxes, that will mean a drop in customers for Netflix, as a good number (I expect 20%) would stick with Apple and Drop Netflix.
Why? You can still use Netflix on Apple TV, it's just a crap experience because the Apple TV interaction model is horrendous.
Contrast this with the mass hordes of Windows users who habitually steal their software, every last bit of it.
Yes just like all those people who use Linux on mobile.
The proposition was "Linux users want free". Which is bullshit. Linux users want freedom, there's a slight difference.
So why are they paying more for proprietary games then?
The benefit of rendering on Linux is the clustering, you're not running Blender there, in fact artists don't care what OS is running on the render farm.
I thought you just needed to make a build for Flatpak or perhaps for Steam Runtime. What am I missing?
Unless you're using a Slackware distribution, then there's also AppImage or Snap depending on your requirements and targeted users, see the issue is fragmentation.
Yeah I can't imagine Microsoft's PR department really gives a shit about a slashdot comment thread, it's a nice theory to try and deflect criticism though.
They explicitly say they have no plans to and will not support linux
Right, because why bother?
People just don't want to learn anything new
Sure they do! Everybody learned how to use a modern smartphone thanks to the iPhone, people learn to use new applications on their computers every day but the reason they do that is because it comes with some significant benefit. For example I can certainly see value for 3d animators in learning software like Blender - and a lot of them do - but whether they run it on Windows or Linux or macOS is pretty much irrelevant.
Have you written to AutoDesk asking if they've considered making a Linux compatible suite? They won't make one if no one asks.
Why bother? How would it be any different? Aside from maybe I would see the Ubuntu logo rather than the Windows one when my PC starts up.
Windows releases used to be good for **10 YEARS** (mainstream plus extended).
But you had to update them along the way right? Like they do still support Windows 7 but can you get the latest security patches if you haven't even installed SP1?
This is traditionally referred to as the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Well no, it isn't. That would require it to be a feature tying it specifically to some Microsoft product or platform. The "Extend" that you refer to is creating proprietary, non-portable extensions that don't work on other vendors' platforms.
Devuan sounds like Debian's non-union, Mexican equivalent.
Apple seems to be falling into the Microsoft trap where it doesn't matter if quality goes down so long as sales still go up. macOS, like Windows, has applications that do not run on other platforms so the problem is that people stop buying the product because they want it and start buying it because they need it.
The cloud component is only one side of the evolving game market, the other side of it is the access that everybody has to a dozen or so AAA game engines for free! The bar for entry to game development has never been lower, even hobbyists have the choice of Source, Unreal, Unity, CryEngine with one of the pioneers of PC game modding, idTech, being the exception.
Look at PUBG, that came along thanks to accessibility to the Unreal engine.
It's more about the TVs where console gamers are used to having 50-75ms of lag anyway.
Most people have more lag between the video output and the screen generating photons than you get sending a signal across the country.
Thanks for playing. RF PHY of my cable modem by itself introduces more latency before signal can even travel down the street.
How much?