See, for example, the comments about a Chromebook being better for a non-technical grandma because she can't fyayk it up as an excuse to pester her grandson for tech support without charge.
somebody who used Blender his whole life and would go on to use one of the more know commercial offerings would think the same because he's used to how Blender works.
Likewise, a GIMP user like me would have some relearning to do if dropped in front of a copy of Adobe Photoshop.
But I think what other people are trying to say is that applications for macOS ought to work like the applications included with macOS and other applications published by the publisher of macOS. Likewise, applications for Windows ought to work like the applications included with Windows and other applications published by the publisher of Windows. Things like Blender work like neither.
Linux just works on modern laptops, including wifi, chipset power management, sound, GPU
With some big exceptions. See experiences installing Debian on an ASUS Transformer Book T100TA. Power management, suspend, hibernate, screen brightness, Bluetooth, and camera are all broken, and WLAN and sound are broken in Debian main because they require nonfree firmware distributed separately. Good luck downloading a WLAN driver with broken WLAN; you'll need to instead buy a supported USB Ethernet adapter.
I didn't mean to imply that a Galaxy Book 2 or any other device that ships with Windows 10 in S Mode was literally a game console. I meant that people prefer S Mode or a Chromebook for those tasks that S Mode or a Chromebook can do for the same reason that some gamers prefer a game console for those tasks that a game console can do: less risk of failure due to administrator error or driver problems.
Can't see getting Microsoft's locked down, underpowered, feature limited product over a Chromebook.
And the article you linked describes the alternative as "locked down, highly secure Chrome OS machines".
A Windows 10 S device can be upgraded to Windows 10 without charge. This makes it arguably less "locked down [and] feature limited" than a Chromebook that can run only web applications. This will remain true until 75 percent of new Chromebooks ship with support for Crostini, the container to run X11/Linux applications.
why would a software developer port their windows app to UWP but not android?
Desktop Bridge allows a developer to continue using Win32 API (or other libraries that wrap Win32) instead of UWP, so long as the application isn't in a category excluded by Microsoft Store Policies.
Or a developer may have licensed the PC rights in a particular work, invention, or mark, but not the mobile rights. For example, last I checked, EA ported the game Tetris to iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms, and another company handled the PC version.
And good luck convincing Windows software vendors to invest in native ARM builds for that miniscule market.
They're more likely in the case of free software designed for Windows. These include Firefox, LibreOffice, FCEUX (NES emulator with debugging), OpenMPT (sample sequencer), and j0CC-FamiTracker (chiptune sequencer).
Until all devices with 2 GB or less RAM are retired, 32-bit code still has advantages. First, a 32-bit OS doesn't need to keep both 32-bit and 64-bit system libraries loaded all the time, making applications less likely to spill their state from main memory to swap space. Second, even though x86-64 spills registers to data cache less often, the smaller pointers of 32-bit code are less likely to overflow the data cache and spill to slower main memory.[1] For this reason, developers of applications that do not require 4 GB or more RAM have tended to continue to ship 32-bit executables, even if they do ship 64-bit executables.
[1] The x32 ABI, which combines 32-bit pointers with the rest of x86-64's advantages, was intended to solve this but never became popular. In particular, unless all software that you use is free software, x32 requires three sets of system libraries: x86, x86-64, and x32.
The only emulation is when running legacy x86 programs because of a chicken and egg scenario where a software vendor hasn't yet checked a box in Visual Studio to compile for ARM64.
Or when a developer is using a compiler that doesn't even have that checkbox yet, such as the Delphi compiler used to build the BGB emulator.
(Before you ask: BGB's maintainer claims that it won't build in Lazarus because Lazarus doesn't include the GUI libraries on which BGB depends.)
From the featured article: "You can upgrade to Windows 10 for free, of course, but it’s an emulated experience."
In fact, you need to upgrade to Windows 10 for an emulated experience. The Microsoft Store Policies ban emulators that play retro games: "10.13.10 Apps that emulate a game system are not allowed on any device family."
I know Vidme ran out of money, and Vimeo is kind of picky about what videos they accept from accounts that don't pay $240 per year for Pro. But last I checked, Dailymotion and the SFW section of Pornhub still existed, as did just putting.webm files on your website using the <video> element.
There's nothing new here, or any more dangerous than... well... even a five-year-old browser had.
Even a fifteen-year-old browser is too much for some, as scripts loaded from a third party can exfiltrate the viewer's interests to that third party. (Q4 2003 is around the time when Mozilla Application Suite and Safari adopted Microsoft's XMLHttpRequest, the X in AJAX.) The sentiment I sometimes see here and on SoylentNews is "I don't trust any script in the browser. Web documents ought to be static on the client, with interactivity limited to navigation, form submission, and CSS checkbox selectors. Applications needing more interactivity than that ought to be native, built on a multiplatform GUI library, and distributed as source code that I can audit (or hire someone to) and then compile and run myself."
I feel disappointed by some of the systematic fact distortions I see on K. Rupert Murdoch's noise outlets. I wish I could fire Fox. Fortunately, Mozilla is working on both the browser side and the facts side of that equation.
Smart phones? Last I heard Android outsells iPhones by 10-1, worldwide.
Last I checked (Q1 2018), the mean revenue per user for paid apps and in-app purchases was so much larger on Apple's App Store than on Google Play Store that it outweighed Android's larger user base: "$5.08 was generated per device with the App Store during Q1 compared to only $0.47 with the Play Store."
You have alternatives in every market they are in.
With the exception of the market for tools to develop smart phone applications. If you develop such an application on any computer other than a Mac, it will be Android exclusive, and Android users tend to be less willing to pay for apps than iOS users.
These actions about GTA V mods are about mods that affect progression in online mode, as a Motherboard article linked from BBC's article clarifies, not so much about mods that affect only the offline experience.
Now to extend your analogy: Like other tabletop games, physical copies of the Monopoly property trading game support offline multiplayer. If Hasbro and EA were still offering an online version of Monopoly, and someone were cheating in that game, Hasbro and EA might be justified in seeking a civil search warrant.
Consumers have no choice they'd have to be physically close the companies to effect their bad behavior at all.
In theory, consumers could stop being pure consumers and learn to be game developers. Start with Python or Blender depending on whether you want to be a programmer or a designer.
Certain parts of the "religious right" voting bloc oppose all forms of birth control. In some cases, this extends beyond a "pro-life" stance beyond abortion even to anticonceptive methods that prevent pregnancy in the first place, such as hormones and condoms. Many Republicans publicly oppose state support for birth control in order to attract their votes.
How is "nip poor overpopulation in the bud by increasing poor people's access to birth control" not "actually suggest[ing] something useful" over the course of a generation?
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See, for example, the comments about a Chromebook being better for a non-technical grandma because she can't fyayk it up as an excuse to pester her grandson for tech support without charge.
somebody who used Blender his whole life and would go on to use one of the more know commercial offerings would think the same because he's used to how Blender works.
Likewise, a GIMP user like me would have some relearning to do if dropped in front of a copy of Adobe Photoshop.
But I think what other people are trying to say is that applications for macOS ought to work like the applications included with macOS and other applications published by the publisher of macOS. Likewise, applications for Windows ought to work like the applications included with Windows and other applications published by the publisher of Windows. Things like Blender work like neither.
Linux just works on modern laptops, including wifi, chipset power management, sound, GPU
With some big exceptions. See experiences installing Debian on an ASUS Transformer Book T100TA. Power management, suspend, hibernate, screen brightness, Bluetooth, and camera are all broken, and WLAN and sound are broken in Debian main because they require nonfree firmware distributed separately. Good luck downloading a WLAN driver with broken WLAN; you'll need to instead buy a supported USB Ethernet adapter.
I didn't mean to imply that a Galaxy Book 2 or any other device that ships with Windows 10 in S Mode was literally a game console. I meant that people prefer S Mode or a Chromebook for those tasks that S Mode or a Chromebook can do for the same reason that some gamers prefer a game console for those tasks that a game console can do: less risk of failure due to administrator error or driver problems.
I didn't mean to imply that Apple ought to be broken up over this. I was claiming only that Android's larger user base tells an incomplete story.
Can't see getting Microsoft's locked down, underpowered, feature limited product over a Chromebook.
And the article you linked describes the alternative as "locked down, highly secure Chrome OS machines".
A Windows 10 S device can be upgraded to Windows 10 without charge. This makes it arguably less "locked down [and] feature limited" than a Chromebook that can run only web applications. This will remain true until 75 percent of new Chromebooks ship with support for Crostini, the container to run X11/Linux applications.
why would a software developer port their windows app to UWP but not android?
Desktop Bridge allows a developer to continue using Win32 API (or other libraries that wrap Win32) instead of UWP, so long as the application isn't in a category excluded by Microsoft Store Policies.
Or a developer may have licensed the PC rights in a particular work, invention, or mark, but not the mobile rights. For example, last I checked, EA ported the game Tetris to iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms, and another company handled the PC version.
And good luck convincing Windows software vendors to invest in native ARM builds for that miniscule market.
They're more likely in the case of free software designed for Windows. These include Firefox, LibreOffice, FCEUX (NES emulator with debugging), OpenMPT (sample sequencer), and j0CC-FamiTracker (chiptune sequencer).
Until all devices with 2 GB or less RAM are retired, 32-bit code still has advantages. First, a 32-bit OS doesn't need to keep both 32-bit and 64-bit system libraries loaded all the time, making applications less likely to spill their state from main memory to swap space. Second, even though x86-64 spills registers to data cache less often, the smaller pointers of 32-bit code are less likely to overflow the data cache and spill to slower main memory.[1] For this reason, developers of applications that do not require 4 GB or more RAM have tended to continue to ship 32-bit executables, even if they do ship 64-bit executables.
[1] The x32 ABI, which combines 32-bit pointers with the rest of x86-64's advantages, was intended to solve this but never became popular. In particular, unless all software that you use is free software, x32 requires three sets of system libraries: x86, x86-64, and x32.
The only emulation is when running legacy x86 programs because of a chicken and egg scenario where a software vendor hasn't yet checked a box in Visual Studio to compile for ARM64.
Or when a developer is using a compiler that doesn't even have that checkbox yet, such as the Delphi compiler used to build the BGB emulator.
(Before you ask: BGB's maintainer claims that it won't build in Lazarus because Lazarus doesn't include the GUI libraries on which BGB depends.)
For the same reason anyone wants a game console: it's harder for a user to screw up.
From the featured article: "You can upgrade to Windows 10 for free, of course, but it’s an emulated experience."
In fact, you need to upgrade to Windows 10 for an emulated experience. The Microsoft Store Policies ban emulators that play retro games: "10.13.10 Apps that emulate a game system are not allowed on any device family."
That's true of broadcast and cable TV, not so much of YouTube under some interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
What fraction of uploaders of original videos to YouTube even offer ownership without violating YouTube TOS as an option?
The analogy breaks because national governments regulate health care more strictly than software engineering.
What fraction of uploaders of original videos to YouTube even offer ownership as an option?
I know Vidme ran out of money, and Vimeo is kind of picky about what videos they accept from accounts that don't pay $240 per year for Pro. But last I checked, Dailymotion and the SFW section of Pornhub still existed, as did just putting .webm files on your website using the <video> element.
There's nothing new here, or any more dangerous than... well... even a five-year-old browser had.
Even a fifteen-year-old browser is too much for some, as scripts loaded from a third party can exfiltrate the viewer's interests to that third party. (Q4 2003 is around the time when Mozilla Application Suite and Safari adopted Microsoft's XMLHttpRequest, the X in AJAX.) The sentiment I sometimes see here and on SoylentNews is "I don't trust any script in the browser. Web documents ought to be static on the client, with interactivity limited to navigation, form submission, and CSS checkbox selectors. Applications needing more interactivity than that ought to be native, built on a multiplatform GUI library, and distributed as source code that I can audit (or hire someone to) and then compile and run myself."
So which browser do you use?
I feel disappointed by some of the systematic fact distortions I see on K. Rupert Murdoch's noise outlets. I wish I could fire Fox. Fortunately, Mozilla is working on both the browser side and the facts side of that equation.
Smart phones? Last I heard Android outsells iPhones by 10-1, worldwide.
Last I checked (Q1 2018), the mean revenue per user for paid apps and in-app purchases was so much larger on Apple's App Store than on Google Play Store that it outweighed Android's larger user base: "$5.08 was generated per device with the App Store during Q1 compared to only $0.47 with the Play Store."
You have alternatives in every market they are in.
With the exception of the market for tools to develop smart phone applications. If you develop such an application on any computer other than a Mac, it will be Android exclusive, and Android users tend to be less willing to pay for apps than iOS users.
These actions about GTA V mods are about mods that affect progression in online mode, as a Motherboard article linked from BBC's article clarifies, not so much about mods that affect only the offline experience.
Now to extend your analogy: Like other tabletop games, physical copies of the Monopoly property trading game support offline multiplayer. If Hasbro and EA were still offering an online version of Monopoly, and someone were cheating in that game, Hasbro and EA might be justified in seeking a civil search warrant.
Consumers have no choice they'd have to be physically close the companies to effect their bad behavior at all.
In theory, consumers could stop being pure consumers and learn to be game developers. Start with Python or Blender depending on whether you want to be a programmer or a designer.
Certain parts of the "religious right" voting bloc oppose all forms of birth control. In some cases, this extends beyond a "pro-life" stance beyond abortion even to anticonceptive methods that prevent pregnancy in the first place, such as hormones and condoms. Many Republicans publicly oppose state support for birth control in order to attract their votes.
How is "nip poor overpopulation in the bud by increasing poor people's access to birth control" not "actually suggest[ing] something useful" over the course of a generation?