I've kept software notes on my wiki since around 2016; largely Linux-related, some FreeBSD, and lately Windows. It's self-hosted with reproducible proof!
I'm curious how my wiki looks to employers? I think it's pretty cool and shows what kind of software I'm familiar with, along with how I document: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/
Unfortunately I don't agree with most VR games and apps using Unity; ya'll should be using Unreal for better performance and non-cookie-cutter cartoon graphics! (hint: every VR MMORPG)
I never was a fan of Unity. To me it felt like its selling-point was that it could run on multiple platforms, but not at optimal performance compared to other engines (basically like Android and Java). My introduction to Unity was with Hearthstone (the card game), and even then it didn't natively support Linux.
On that presumption, I found it incredibly surprising people latching onto it for VR dev, and considering most Unity VR games all share the same look (cartoon-y; basically look at A Township Tale and compare it to Orbus and Zenith), that further cements my view of Unity not being a serious high-quality capable engine to be using, unless I want to throw quick non-sustainable projects together.
This news about Unity being even more expensive definitely doesn't help my view :p
You have to understand where it came from. Unity was the simple easy to use indie darling for years when it first came about. The corporatization and financialization of the company ruined it, but once upon a time it occupied the same space Godot does today.
I think they were just pretty early in the VR space with good libraries/support/tutorials etc. I cannot say for sure because I have only done one Unity-VR tutorial "back in the day" but in the AR space there was a time window where they were pretty clearly #1 (imo). I shipped a couple of small projects based on their Vuforia integration (quite costly) and then later without Vuforia. Nothing big, mostly trivial product vizualizations for customers that had upcoming trade shows/excibitions with somewhat creative markers.
100% of my lifetime AR profits are based on Unity such a strange wild west time but I got out of that market very quickly when it became a lot easier to build these simple demo apps. I still remember the "wow factor" and people running around the office showing all their colleagues how you could see their products through a tables/phone.
Port 80 / 443 privileges at the device's networking level, mostly. If you don't need those there are indeed plenty of options (e.g. hosting onion sites works fine).
You're spreading misinformation and I'm unsure why.
- Scrollbars auto-hiding can easily be disabled from Modern UI settings -> Accessibility
- You aren't using the web search in the start menu correctly; it's like trying to use a Google Mini speaker to write an essay; yeah it'll work but good luck. You know how to use a browser; do that instead of complaining about something that you aren't using as-intended.
- Afaik taskbar can be ungrouped now; it's time to catch-up to 2023 :p
- Great artist copy; macOS is good. Get over it. I doubt they copied any kind of style from it, but citing this as a downside is silly.
- Microsoft Edge is worlds more efficient than Chrome or Firefox and I can personally vouch for this on the latest 11 stable and insider builds. If it's the update process with Edge that's taking up CPU... what is the issue? Updating files takes CPU, RAM, and HDD resources. Windows Update takes resources. Updating Firefox takes resources. Updating iOS or Android, as you may have guessed it by now, takes resources :p Edge updates for security reasons usually.
Debian flat-out sucks in 2023 and that seals that you're only for some kind of bad-intent or are incredibly naive. You may as well recommend Gentoo or Arch Linux for people coming from Windows 11 as those are just as-bad recommendations. People use Windows because it works. Windows 11 works. What Linux distros work? Ubuntu, and to a lesser-extent Mint. Anything else can be discovered over-time.
> Scrollbars auto-hiding can easily be disabled from Modern UI settings -> Accessibility
OK, and how do you change them so they are more than a few pixels wide? the width is literally 1/3 of Windows 10
> You aren't using the web search in the start menu correctly; it's like trying to use a Google Mini speaker to write an essay; yeah it'll work but good luck. You know how to use a browser; do that instead of complaining about something that you aren't using as-intended.
no. the point is not that the start web search is bad, its that IT EXISTS. I dont want to web search in the start menu EVER.
> Afaik taskbar can be ungrouped now; it's time to catch-up to 2023 :p
you are incorrect.
> Microsoft Edge is worlds more efficient than Chrome or Firefox and I can personally vouch for this on the latest 11 stable and insider builds.
even if thats true, I dont care. I DON'T want edge, and I DEFINITELY dont want forced updates, and I DEFINITELY dont want the uninstall option for it to be grayed out in the settings app, as is the current situation.
> Debian flat-out sucks in 2023 and that seals that you're only for some kind of bad-intent or are incredibly naive.
I pay for a Debian Digital Ocean droplet every month, because it works and gets the job done. please take your terrible takes elsewhere.
> even if thats true, I dont care. I DON'T want edge, and I DEFINITELY dont want forced updates, and I DEFINITELY dont want the uninstall option for it to be grayed out in the settings app, as is the current situation.
Yeah ok; everyone using it in business and multimedia must just like making their life harder; I forgot Linux was the greatest even though it's not notable outside of servers :p
>everyone using it in business and multimedia must just like making their life harder
Nah, they just either don't know any better or just don't care. I think it is a mix of both.
>I forgot Linux was the greatest
You can't forgot what you didn't know, mate :) Linux is for servers, it has no place on desktop. All those "The [Current Year] is a year of Linux on the desktop!" articles can attest that.
The problem with the web search in the task bar or start menu is that it's there at all, giving web results when you searched for a document or app you don't remember the name of, or the @&%$ place they moved some setting to since it's not in Settings and you can't find any normal menu path to it.
Saying "Debian sucks" in a ui context without saying which desktop, and holding up Ubuntu as good, seals that your comment has less value or substance than the one you're critiquing.
That may have been a hot take on my part, but what makes Debian worthwhile over Ubuntu aside from ideology?
The average person switching from Windows to Linux wants something that works. My general impression is:
- Anything other than Ubuntu and Mint requires involvement with 3rd-party repos for comparable multimedia playback
- Ubuntu has the largest userbase, and thus the largest access to easy tech support; a beginner isn't going to bust out Terminal and go straight to Arch wiki
- Because Ubuntu has the largest userbase, software is more tested on it; check the requirements for most games on Steam and most of them mention Ubuntu, or SteamOS; nothing else
- I remember years ago Debian having some confusion with different images and firmware. I don't exactly remember the problem (maybe missing firmware for netinstall?), but this wasn't an issue with Ubuntu that includes most of the stuff on-disc.
Debian feels like one of those barely-heard of distros. When I think mainstream distros for desktop, it's Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE. For server, it's Ubuntu, RHEL, or SUSE. Arch Linux, Gentoo, Rhino, Cachy (or whatever it's called), Clear Linux, and Debian are distros to use if you have a known reason that they benefit your use case, after trying it from mainstream distros.
I wouldn't recommend Windows users to switch to any of those because of the lower user-base, and that because those distros are more technical there's also that air of harsh discussions and entitlement (Arch forums is terrible with this; RTFM). I don't know about anyone else, but I don't want my recommendation to be for anti-social entitled pricks who think they know better with their obscure distro :p If people want to go that way on their own, go for it!
> That may have been a hot take on my part, but what makes Debian worthwhile over Ubuntu aside from ideology?
I think they're very close these days but to me: Stability, I say this using Ubuntu 22.04 but to say Debian 'sucks' is a big stretch given how similar they are now
Windows 10 to Windows 11 is a disaster, nobody wants it, it's forced on most people, at my workplace people are avoiding it, Debian on the other hand has been mostly smooth sailing for like 10 years now
>Anything other than Ubuntu and Mint requires involvement with 3rd-party repos for comparable multimedia playback
Don't most people use Youtube and Spotify etc these days? If someone wants to break out the Mp3's they just install VLC.
> I remember years ago Debian having some confusion with different images and firmware
You'll be happy to know this is fixed, Debian's latest release now includes non-free firmware in the installer:
Starting with this release, official images include firmware packages from main and non-free-firmware, along with metadata to configure the installed system accordingly. Our installation guide has been updated accordingly.
--- Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04 you can't really go wrong imo
There's some other stuff I want to say but I must sleep! thanks!
Not that you're wrong about any of that, but I'm pretty sure the bird who's had three dozen concussions from ramming my bay window every couple weeks knows better than Microsoft UX.
I got a OnePlus 6 this year and it's the best-spec'd phone I've owned; I chose it specifically for having 8GB of RAM. I barely use the thing most days and the most fun I've had with it so far was flashing LOS to it :p
Doom-scrolling and other time-wasting stuff is far more efficient from a PC, and I don't know how people use phones for hours to do that. Typing is also worse even with swipe!
I should try to go without a PC for a bit since I doubt I'd be able to waste time to the same extent from a phone :p
> I don't know how people use phones for hours to do that
I assume you stay off Reddit and Instagram on your phone then? I personally find mobile to be the biggest time sink for me on the low-brain-energy social media (memes and short-form videos, really) consumption front.
> Doom-scrolling and other time-wasting stuff is far more efficient from a PC, and I don't know how people use phones for hours to do that. Typing is also worse even with swipe!
This. I've never understood the appeal of smartphones: the tiny screen and lack of physical keyboard/mouse is just annoying to me. Maybe I'm addicted to my laptop, but I'm certainly not addicted to my phone. It's a useful gadget to carry around if I need to check a map, snap a photo, or make a phone call, but otherwise I don't use it much. I guess a smartphone is better than nothing, if it's your only computing device, but what a subpar experience!
Windows: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;windows;games;2009...
Linux: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;linux;games;2009sc...
FreeBSD: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;bsd;games;2009scap...
I play both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpOPie2s8nI