And go look up, what Wine actually is. Hint: A shitload of translations from shitty quirky and even ancient toy OS APIs, to make toys run on a real OS.
And I've seen people who describe Qt as a "toy" environment, and others who describe GTK+ as a "toy" environment.
The featured article is about Steam. "Linux" in the context of Steam implies a userland environment that can run applications that use Steam Runtime. This means X11/Linux on an x86-64 desktop or laptop computer, not Android or router firmware or server operating systems.
Wine is a layer in the middle that adds some inefficiency, compatibility issues and bugs of its own.
How much more so than GTK+ as "a layer in the middle" between an application and Xlib?
The biggest issue with companies ignoring "native" Linux is they'll tend to stick with the tools for the platforms they target and they will tend towards the most modern APIs particularly for graphics where modern generally means faster and with more features.
How much of this issue goes away if a developer instructs quality control to treat Wine as a fully supported platform alongside Windows 7 and Windows 10? That's how BGB (Game Boy debugger), FCEUX (NES debugger), OpenMPT (sample based sequencer), and FamiTracker (chiptune sequencer) work: the developer ships Win32 binaries tested on both Windows and Wine.
Whoever thought ctrl+Q was ever a good idea needs punched in the throat. Function keys exist for a reason. Use them.
Ctrl+Q is an imitation of Command-Q on the Macintosh and Apple IIGS. The keyboard shipped with the original Macintosh lacked function keys, and even after ADB became standard, the "extended keyboard" with function keys was an extra cost add-on.
Accidentally pressing Ctrl+Q while reaching for Ctrl+Tab (or Ctrl+Shift+Q while reaching for Ctrl+Shift+Tab on platforms where the Exit command is Ctrl+Shift+Q) wouldn't be quite so much of a problem if "Restore Previous Session" in Firefox were capable of restoring the data in Slashdot comment composition forms. It is not. After the user reopens Firefox and restores the previous session, any open comment composition forms will no longer exist, and clicking "Reply to This" will open an empty form instead of a form containing the comment whose composition was in progress.
1. Debian's preference for the oldest supported ESR version 2. The fact that Mozilla still hasn't fixed bug 1325692 that blocks WebExtension-based successors to Keybinder from being able to effectively unbind the Ctrl+Q=quit shortcut on Linux
Frankly, people never owned the music or the words in the book. They owned a physical copy printed on a dead tree or a shiny disc. Copyright law always restricted what you were able to do with the music or words.
People had the rights of the owner of a lawfully made copy, as set forth in 17 USC 109, 117, and 1008, and foreign counterparts, These include 1. the perpetual right to use the work privately as long as the copy remains in usable condition, and 2. the right to resell the copy to someone else. A streaming lessee does not have these rights.
If the demo version and the paid version are separate apps with separate listings in Google Play Store, the problem becomes one of having to fit both the demo version and the paid version on the user's phone until the user has exported all data from the demo version to the paid version. In addition, the user has to download data for the paid version that the user has already downloaded for the demo version, which may cost several dollars per GB on cellular or satellite Internet. Structuring registration as a one-time IAP avoids this storage and bandwidth crunch, especially for a game that may have 1 GB or more of assets.
Even XFCE, Mate are getting a bit heavy with more bloat in the libraries and the move to 64bit.
I've recommended using 32-bit on machines with 1 GB or less or 64-bit on machines with 4 GB or more. For machines with 2 GB, it sort of depends on the rest of the system. With a conventional HDD, you need to keep more in disk cache, so the reduction in disk misses from keeping pointers small and not loading two sets of libraries (multiarch) outweighs the faster CPU execution from more registers. But with an SSD, you don't have to keep quite as much in disk cache, so you can afford to waste some RAM on the larger pointers inherent in the standard 64-bit ABI* and two copies of many system libraries.
* I'm excluding oddball ABIs like x32. In practice, an oddball ABI requires require 3-way multiarch (standard 32-bit, standard 64-bit, and oddball) if you want to run any proprietary software or even free software built for a more popular ABI.
Bench marks can be similar to "fake news" if not done on low powered equipment as well as silicon rockets
Does a 6 watt 4 Airmont core 1.6 GHz Pentium N3710 CPU in a fanless 11.6" Dell laptop count as "low-powered equipment" or "silicon rockets"? Or are you talking CPUs designed to fit in a 5-6" phablet?
Physical action? You mean: "in" your computer? With no way to automate it? And you put up with *that*?
Correct. Many people buy game consoles, set-top streaming boxes, smartphones, and tablet computers running smartphone operating systems, and they just put up with annoyances because they perceive that the platform is cheaper, more convenient, or both than buying a desktop computer to leave connected to a television-sized monitor.
I used Firefox on a netbook with 1 GB of RAM for years before maxing it out at 2 GB. Here are some tips for using Firefox with low memory:
- Limit yourself to 10 tabs and use bookmarks for the rest. - Turn on Tracking Protection so that ads get loaded only if they don't stalk you from one website to another to build an interest dossier. - Don't use a heavy desktop like GNOME 3. Use Xfce instead.
Marvell's name happens to resemble that of Marvel, a superhero comics publisher that Disney bought a few years back. The most recent film in Marvel's cinematic universe, Avengers: Infinity War, had a character wipe out half the life in the universe by assembling a magic glove and snapping his fingers. Hence the doubling of the final letter in "fingerr" and "Thanoss" to parallel "Marvell".
Debian calls 64-bit ARM "a first-class release architecture in Stretch, with almost all packages built, and the standard installer working on various machines, and quite likely to work on new ones." Among those few applications in Debian's repository that fail on ARM, which are most critical? Or by "application support" are you specifically referring to Wine, Steam, and Steam Wine?
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And go look up, what Wine actually is. Hint: A shitload of translations from shitty quirky and even ancient toy OS APIs, to make toys run on a real OS.
And I've seen people who describe Qt as a "toy" environment, and others who describe GTK+ as a "toy" environment.
By that logic, Microsoft Office is a Linux program too.
In the sense that it's certified by its publisher to work under Wine?
The featured article is about Steam. "Linux" in the context of Steam implies a userland environment that can run applications that use Steam Runtime. This means X11/Linux on an x86-64 desktop or laptop computer, not Android or router firmware or server operating systems.
Wine is a layer in the middle that adds some inefficiency, compatibility issues and bugs of its own.
How much more so than GTK+ as "a layer in the middle" between an application and Xlib?
The biggest issue with companies ignoring "native" Linux is they'll tend to stick with the tools for the platforms they target and they will tend towards the most modern APIs particularly for graphics where modern generally means faster and with more features.
How much of this issue goes away if a developer instructs quality control to treat Wine as a fully supported platform alongside Windows 7 and Windows 10? That's how BGB (Game Boy debugger), FCEUX (NES debugger), OpenMPT (sample based sequencer), and FamiTracker (chiptune sequencer) work: the developer ships Win32 binaries tested on both Windows and Wine.
Hopefully this doesn't give companies an excuse to ignore native Linux development.
How is a Wine app on a GTK+ system any less "native" than a Qt app on a GTK+ system? It's literally just a different set of userspace libraries.
Whoever thought ctrl+Q was ever a good idea needs punched in the throat.
Function keys exist for a reason. Use them.
Ctrl+Q is an imitation of Command-Q on the Macintosh and Apple IIGS. The keyboard shipped with the original Macintosh lacked function keys, and even after ADB became standard, the "extended keyboard" with function keys was an extra cost add-on.
Perhaps the claim is that Firefox is irrelevant precisely because it "does not have a presence on phones or tablets."
Accidentally pressing Ctrl+Q while reaching for Ctrl+Tab (or Ctrl+Shift+Q while reaching for Ctrl+Shift+Tab on platforms where the Exit command is Ctrl+Shift+Q) wouldn't be quite so much of a problem if "Restore Previous Session" in Firefox were capable of restoring the data in Slashdot comment composition forms. It is not. After the user reopens Firefox and restores the previous session, any open comment composition forms will no longer exist, and clicking "Reply to This" will open an empty form instead of a form containing the comment whose composition was in progress.
Two things keep me on Firefox 52:
1. Debian's preference for the oldest supported ESR version
2. The fact that Mozilla still hasn't fixed bug 1325692 that blocks WebExtension-based successors to Keybinder from being able to effectively unbind the Ctrl+Q=quit shortcut on Linux
Frankly, people never owned the music or the words in the book. They owned a physical copy printed on a dead tree or a shiny disc. Copyright law always restricted what you were able to do with the music or words.
People had the rights of the owner of a lawfully made copy, as set forth in 17 USC 109, 117, and 1008, and foreign counterparts, These include 1. the perpetual right to use the work privately as long as the copy remains in usable condition, and 2. the right to resell the copy to someone else. A streaming lessee does not have these rights.
How does it "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" to continue to enforce copyright in a work that is no longer commercially available?
In the supply and demand model, what forces determine the supply function of licenses to view a copyrighted work?
If the demo version and the paid version are separate apps with separate listings in Google Play Store, the problem becomes one of having to fit both the demo version and the paid version on the user's phone until the user has exported all data from the demo version to the paid version. In addition, the user has to download data for the paid version that the user has already downloaded for the demo version, which may cost several dollars per GB on cellular or satellite Internet. Structuring registration as a one-time IAP avoids this storage and bandwidth crunch, especially for a game that may have 1 GB or more of assets.
C# you can subscribe to events and they can use up all your memory
It's the same in Java, unless your event source is documented as holding WeakReferences to its subscribed listeners.
Perhaps running tests oriented toward recent graduates on candidates is a sign that HR wants to hire recent graduates and pay recent graduate salary.
Thanks for posting your process. But do dynamic DNS providers even allow NS records?
Even XFCE, Mate are getting a bit heavy with more bloat in the libraries and the move to 64bit.
I've recommended using 32-bit on machines with 1 GB or less or 64-bit on machines with 4 GB or more. For machines with 2 GB, it sort of depends on the rest of the system. With a conventional HDD, you need to keep more in disk cache, so the reduction in disk misses from keeping pointers small and not loading two sets of libraries (multiarch) outweighs the faster CPU execution from more registers. But with an SSD, you don't have to keep quite as much in disk cache, so you can afford to waste some RAM on the larger pointers inherent in the standard 64-bit ABI* and two copies of many system libraries.
* I'm excluding oddball ABIs like x32. In practice, an oddball ABI requires require 3-way multiarch (standard 32-bit, standard 64-bit, and oddball) if you want to run any proprietary software or even free software built for a more popular ABI.
Bench marks can be similar to "fake news" if not done on low powered equipment as well as silicon rockets
Does a 6 watt 4 Airmont core 1.6 GHz Pentium N3710 CPU in a fanless 11.6" Dell laptop count as "low-powered equipment" or "silicon rockets"? Or are you talking CPUs designed to fit in a 5-6" phablet?
You can solve half of that: "No worries; I've got a business card."
Physical action? You mean: "in" your computer? With no way to automate it? And you put up with *that*?
Correct. Many people buy game consoles, set-top streaming boxes, smartphones, and tablet computers running smartphone operating systems, and they just put up with annoyances because they perceive that the platform is cheaper, more convenient, or both than buying a desktop computer to leave connected to a television-sized monitor.
To what extent is 17 USC 117(a) (copying as an essential step in use) "material to a US court of law"?
That and replacing the HDD shipped in a laptop whose motherboard has a SATA port but no M.2 slot.
I used Firefox on a netbook with 1 GB of RAM for years before maxing it out at 2 GB. Here are some tips for using Firefox with low memory:
- Limit yourself to 10 tabs and use bookmarks for the rest.
- Turn on Tracking Protection so that ads get loaded only if they don't stalk you from one website to another to build an interest dossier.
- Don't use a heavy desktop like GNOME 3. Use Xfce instead.
That was a joke son.
Marvell's name happens to resemble that of Marvel, a superhero comics publisher that Disney bought a few years back. The most recent film in Marvel's cinematic universe, Avengers: Infinity War, had a character wipe out half the life in the universe by assembling a magic glove and snapping his fingers. Hence the doubling of the final letter in "fingerr" and "Thanoss" to parallel "Marvell".
Debian calls 64-bit ARM "a first-class release architecture in Stretch, with almost all packages built, and the standard installer working on various machines, and quite likely to work on new ones." Among those few applications in Debian's repository that fail on ARM, which are most critical? Or by "application support" are you specifically referring to Wine, Steam, and Steam Wine?