Linux doesn't need VMs, people need VMs. If you spend most of your time in Windows-exclusive apps and use WSL2 on occasion, then you already know what you want, why are you worried about arguing about it on the Internet?
For many software engineers, a lot of our work is Linux, and it wouldn't be atypical to spend most of the time doing Linux development. I work on Linux and deploy to Linux, it's just a no-brainer to run Linux, too, aside from the fact that I simply loathe using modern Windows to begin with.
(Outside of that, frankly, most people period live inside of the web browser, Slack, Discord, and/or Steam, none of which are Windows-exclusive.)
My point isn't that Linux is better than Windows, it's that WSL2 isn't better than literally running Linux. If you need to do Linux things, it is worse than Linux at basically all of them.
You still have to go and make sure that what you want is there and works, but it's not a bad bet. With a few major omissions aside, there is a pretty big library of supported games.
> For anything that is PvP multiplayer, this is very much not a given because of how pervasive kernel-level anti-cheat solutions are today.
To be fair, though, you probably still have a better shot of being able to play the games you want to under Linux than macOS and that doesn't seem to be that bad of an issue for Mac users. (I mean, I'm sure many of them game on PC anyways, but even that considered macOS has greater marketshare than Linux, so that's a lot of people either able to deal with it or have two computers.)
Speaking as a Mac user, it's really bad. Much worse than Linux/SteamOS actually. Not only most games just aren't there, many games that are advertised as Mac-compatible are actually broken because they haven't been updated for a long time, and macOS is not particularly ABI-stable when it comes to GUI. Sometimes they just don't support hi-DPI, so you can play it but forget about 4K. But sometimes it just straight up won't start.
I do indeed have two computers with a KVM setup largely for this reason, with a secondary Windows box relegated to gaming console role.
Fair point. I know it was rough when Apple made the break-away with 32-bit.
Still, the point is that you can make it work if you want to make it work. Off the top of my head:
- Two computers, completely separate. Maybe a desktop and a laptop.
- Two computers, one desk and a KVM like you suggest.
- Two computers, one desk. No proper KVM, just set up remote desktop and game streaming.
- (on Linux) KVM with GPU passthrough, or GPU passthrough with frame relay. One computer, one desk.
- Game streaming services, for more casual and occasional uses.
- Ordinary virtualization with emulated GPU. Not usually great for multimedia, but still.
- And of course, Steam Play/Heroic Launcher/WINE. Not as applicable on macOS, but I know CodeWeavers does a lot to keep macOS well-supported with Crossover. With the aforementioned limitations, of course.
Obviously two computers has a downside, managing two boxen is harder than one, and you will pay more for the privilege. On the other hand, it gives you "the real thing" whenever you need it. With some monitors having basic KVM functionality built-in, especially over USB-C, and a variety of mini PCs that have enough muscle to game, it's not really the least practical approach.
I suspect for a lot of us here there is a reasonable option if we really don't want to compromise on our choice of primary desktop OS.
To the author, I have this idea, for each page, put a sheet of transparent plastic or something like that. So the owner will color the plastic which can be erased.
But it may increase the cost anc the color may not stick to the plastic.
It's kind of like Russians throwing their oligarchs out of windows and then saying it's suicide: everybody knows who did it, and there won't be consequences. That in itself sends a signal: 'we can do this, what are you going to do about it? Nothing.'
I feel like "Being detected, making it obvious and still no consequences" is the Russian playbook, if we look at previous instances. It seems to be on purpose as far as I can tell.
Presidential pardons were a crucial check on the power of the courts. The Constitution was written to curb excesses of 18th century England.
I'd say we didn't use them nearly enough. And now they're being used exclusively for crime. Yet another sound idea turned against us. There just isn't any way to govern a nation which has a majority in favor of destroying democracy.
>>> Last year, it received close to 680K USD, and managed this security audit, sponsored 10 developers, and paid for various expenses. For a language that runs close to 75% of the web, it certainly deserves more funding.
Wow, Automattic itself donated more than half of it:
Silver Sponsor
$387,500 USD
Why many donors with more than USD 24K and USD 100K still listed as Silver sponsor?
It feels pretty off that Laravel and Symfony, arguably the two largest benefactories to PHP being in such a good position have donated so little. Those contribution values are lifetime, Laravel hasn't funded it for over 3 years now, meanwhile its a multimillion dollar business with a huge amount of financial backing.
I know its all donations and not expected, but them kicking in ~$30k a month would realistically be nothing to them, but benefit the PHP foundation massively. The same goes for Symfony.
It's backed by SensioLabs (same creators as Symfony), plus theres a ton of sponsorship across the whole Symfony ecosystem. Every release is sponsored by multiple companies for example: https://symfony.com/backers
Symfony itself also had a round of funding many years ago when it wasn't rolling in cash, around $7 million if I recall.
They are referring to the dispute between Matt Mullenweg / Automattic vs WP Engine.
Mullenweg has been demanding 8% of WP Engine’s revenue, access to their books, and the ability to direct their staff on what to work on. For context, Mullenweg is maintainer of WordPress and WordPress.org, and CEO of WP Engine’s direct competitor, Automattic. The dispute has turned very nasty and included a lot of unhinged behaviour from Mullenweg. WP Engine is currently suing him for a bunch of things, including extortion.
davidandgoliath is basically saying that if Mullenweg thinks he is owed 8% of WP Engine’s revenue, presumably Mullenweg is donating 8% of Automattic’s revenue to the PHP Foundation, making their revenue only ~$5MM/yr. Obviously Automatic’s revenues are vastly higher than that and this is just a tongue in cheek way of pointing out hypocrisy.
While the 8% is probably a dig, the donation of .06% of revenue is going to be a much higher proportion of profits. No idea what their profits or margins are (a quick search does not provide useful info)
Shame his financial contribution doesn't really match up. $34k is pretty darn low considering how much money Laravel makes. Even worse when you see much smaller operatons like Private Packagist have donated more than Laravel and Symfony combined.
I'm a heavy PHP & Laravel developer and I speak for myself and a few close friends around my in my network who are like me. We all consider Laravel the reason we are still within the PHP scene and didn't move away. So in a sense I think it is true.
That said, the recent changes around Laravel (being bought out and becoming more and more commercial) is not something I (we) consider a good thing. Not necessarily a bad thing, but we all know that a OSS framework becoming commercial doesn't usually end well.
It's hyperbole, but like so often, there's a grain of it truth somewhere.
Also, like most things, Laravel is built on the shoulders of others. It sometimes makes hard things easy to access (ppl like this) and hides complexity away, clouding how things actually work (ppl don't like this).
I primarily use Laravel but like to think I code in a generalist if way as to not get stuck in its system.
Ehh, I don't think I'd ever use that word but he had a huge impact on reinvigorating the PHP ecosystem as a whole with Laravel. I remember playing with early versions of Laravel on my own and having my eyes opened to a better way to structure/write code.
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