Notorious b.s.d. posted:

oh hay john c dvorak isn't dead

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2016/02/25/why-linux-sucks-and-will-never-compete-with-windows-or-osx/

Maximum Leader posted:

I think they switched to dota2

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i have a hard time using a mouse for physical reasons

offering a cli and making keyboard shortcuts available is a matter of accessibility. it is hard to predict what users will need

Last Chance posted:

this is expected behavior. when you double click any other file or folder it opens. opening a zip file is no different. thats literally what the "opening" metaphor means

righ click or don't use sloppily compressed files that don't have a parent folder, wontfix

Sapozhnik posted:

if you are "down with X" it means you like X
if you are "down on X" it means you don't like X
if you exclaim "down with X!" then you are calling for the destruction of X

lolenglish

Rooney McNibnug posted:

i don't know why this made me laugh i'm sorry

akadajet posted:

take that, osx!

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Copertino

Schadenboner posted:

Copier-peen-o

Janitor Prime posted:

But on a server with 256GB of RAM, does that really help?

Janitor Prime posted:

DPDK handling 80gbps of traffic

akadajet posted:

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

probably people who were running aix for a reason in the past and are still enjoying the coasting with the very long term support contract they have. sure they would be at least as happy on rhel, but the main priority being keeping things running without effort invested means it makes no sense to invest effort to get onto another platform that offers the same

i really suspect that there is a lot of business opportunity even now in just offering incredibly long-term support contracts. just freeze a dist and a piece of hardware, promise to support both for 100 years, with the rather irrelevant caveat that you promise to if necessary build a vm to simulate the hardware (to at least an equivalent speed of the original) and just update the software to deal with security issues. sort of the mainframe model except realizing that the supposed technology advantages are largely nonsense, the guarantees are what you're selling

bitrot is a lie

SamDabbers posted:

to be fair, mainframes are pretty sweet. there's dedicated hardware offloads for just about everything, full hardware redundancy, single image clustering, elaborate load balancing and work scheduling built into the os, firmware-based hardware partitioning and virtualization, and on and on. a mainframe also needs two thinkpads just to start up. how cool is that?!

the legacy software ecosystem is understandably focused on vertical scaling and non-distributed architecture, and crusty mainframe jockeys get super defensive about how much bigger and faster and better their box is than those "open" systems when you indicate that there might be anything cool or interesting happening with distributed systems.

there's a cool demo out there where they run a whole autoscaling (linux) cloud architecture doing real-time analysis on financial data in a single mainframe, and it doesn't even hiccup.

pram posted:

actually they arent

pram posted:

how are you this dense lol

jit bull transpile posted:

there is nothing good in racine or kenosha schadenboder. racine is a company town around a prison and the corpse of johnson controls and kenosha is fuckin kenosha.

jit bull transpile posted:

There is way more money if you gtfo Wisconsin and as a bonus you don't have to hang around the worst sort of redneck republicans anymore.

But this has almost nothing to do with Linux at this point lol

Bulgakov posted:

I've been spending the last three days installing linux from scratch but I've been having errors codes.

Doth anyone have ideas? There are some x11 dependencies that are confused maybe, and I'm unsure.

Gazpacho posted:

The name sounded “upchucks”

spankmeister posted:

[A]sk me about administering HP-UX 11.00B in tyool 2012

ewe2 posted:

People still install windows?

akadajet posted:

same reason why apple said that macs couldn't get viruses years ago when nobody used macs

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

putting the poo poo in shitposting



(i'm the pringles and beer)

cinci zoo sniper posted:

if you sit there all the time you can let it dry off

Tankakern posted:

what does this have to do with linux the kernel

you don't link to linux, you link to glibc

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

osf/1 was also bad but very differently bad

at least osf/1 is bad in ways that are cool and interesting. ultrix was just an unwanted stepchild left to moulder in a dark closet.

carry on then posted:

more like pooterandom name

OldAlias posted:

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en...-machine-hacker
sorry for vice link. a number of people depend on open source CPAP software (sleepyhead). doctors are not necessarily more informed about your care for all things, there are many cases where you need to be your own advocate. you also need to consider externalities like crippling costs - you can pay a doctor who might not even look at the fine grained info, just averages.

I get what y’all are staying but care is really lovely in a lot of places. maybe OSS isn’t great for all things, but the general idea is not always terrible vs what’s accessible

ewe2 posted:

At least with gentoo you aren't forced to use systemd.

Poopernickel posted:

welcome to hell, my friend

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

none of the snes rpgs are worth playing they are all such hot garbage

pseudorandom name posted:

JRPGs age extremely poorly because they don't offer any gameplay beyond picking options from menus and are entirely dependent on the console's graphical ability for their entertainment value