Endymion_Mallorn

But SteamOS is Arch? So why not suggest CachyOS, which is in a similar space?

Oh, right. I never see the login screen, so I keep forgetting it.

Basically yes, as far as I know. But some software only works with one or the other (WayDroid only works with Wayland, Cinnamon DE and Hypnotix use X) due to available features.

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they’re going to get a better experience on Wayland. Cinnamon is built on X.

Short version of the difference, as I’ve been given the knowledge:

X11/X Windowing System is an older system, and still basically works on the CRT paradigm with HBLANK and VBLANK being sacrosanct and real-time. It’s doing transforms from digital to analog and back to digital in today’s world.

Wayland is built for more modern setups, where unoptimized code and excessive memory capacity are the norm, so it renders the whole frame to the GPU at a time and pushes it out, so there’s no concept of scanlines. It’s all just pixels.

A lot of the pressure is due to people transitioning to Mint from Win10 without understanding that they’re moving to an XWS system rather than Wayland. If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy. If you want stability, stick with Mint and X11.

Until there’s a physical product on shelves, I don’t trust that it’s not vaporware.

It means Multi User Dungeon. It’s a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.

Because a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.

We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.

Well, I guess the diggers pushed it down this time. Still not joining, but I’m glad for the impact.

Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I’m going to keep my PC.

I almost hope so. But with the speed of M.2 and other formats, I wonder how much is going to end up being swap space use.

Fortran, all day every day. Because every byte of the 1969 code is there for a reason.

Someone needs to bring a trust-busting suit against Valve.

No, banned is the right word colloquially. The media is not eligible to be distributed in the monopolistic or anti-competitive web service run by Valve. It wasn’t banned by a government, but it was indeed banned.

I want to use ed as a proper text editor, but xed has so many features I can’t turn it down anymore.

Mint includes both ed and sed.

No, for an SSD, you have to remove it from power and either apply load to specific capacitors, or use concentrated bursts of radiation.

I always thought it was “What You Give Is What You Get”.