Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. Now we only need GIMP 3.0 to launch to wrap up this year. With a proper 5% Linux market share :)
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  2.  @electrolyteorb  You are coping. Yeah, the memory bandwidth is significantly below. But you can have 96 GB of (V)RAM (110 if you use Linux) avaible. Your 5090 won't be as good and fast once it's bottlenecked by the normal dual-channel system RAM which even on high-end desktops (that aren't something like Threadripper) maxes out at about 120-140 GB/s
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  3.  @jamessorrel  Oh, absolutely. It's very iresponsable this whole forced transition from X to Wayland when Wayland is not fully ready to be a replacement. I did complain about it in a lot of other comments. Something so low level, so important should be properly supported until the new thing has everything ready and people, by themselves (aka not forced), on their own time, at their own pace, on their own will migrated themselves to the new thing. And start removing the old thing when the above happened and the old thing gets to something like 0.3% market share. That's a responsable transition.
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  4. The study is from 2021. It would be nice to have one from 2024 too, some of the slow languages have improved.
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  5.  @breadmoth6443  My only reply to your obvious trolling, more for the others reading this thread. HDR is worked on XLibre. So is the fix for "every app is a keylogger". XLibre works with all hardware - Wayland had issues with some older cards. Wayland had jack sh&t implementations for accesibility, Xorg and XLibre is much ahead (though still not "done") in this regard. Wayland has no support for scripting and automations, and given their "5 years to settle on a minor protocol" track record, I don't think we'll see something like this by 2030
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  6.  @justanothercomment416  Any sources on that ?
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  7. "If Zelensky's Ukraine is independent who do they need US money?" Can you ask a more idiotic question ? Jeez Louise, where are you folks coming from ? I wish that someday you face what Ukraine is facing and then amaze us with your amazing problem solving.
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  8. Your calculation is quite off. First of all, I don't think it will be 30 days per month. Did I miss there being a mention about working in weekends ? Normally you have 20 to 22 working days in a month. But also... it said PART TIME. So no 8 hours per day.
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  9. Well said!
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  10. It is a thread on XLibre's Issues page. I think it will take some time though, they're still in the discussions phase, and the topic seems to be very broad and complicated.
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  11.  @livenotbylies  You love other men ? Ha! Gaaaaaaa ok, I'll see myself out
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  12.  @jamessorrel  To be fair, up until like 2 years ago, it was barely usable for non-trivial tasks by a good bunch of people. Accessibility does make sense to be implemented when the rest is rather functional, and that's only been true rather recently.
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  13. Was waiting for a mention of how right Richard Stallman is about freedom and security. Well, he's more on the software side, but the principles remain. We'll just have to start manufacturing locally chips. Which means they'll be decades away in performance and efficiency. But, hey, for something important, that might still be something better than nothing.
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  14. Still waiting for a full week in which I hear NOTHING about AI (that is, no mainstream news about AI or mainstream people having takes on AI). I don't think it will happen in 2024 :(
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  15.  @livenotbylies  To be fair though, if every mildly important project has 100 forks, we won't get anywhere.
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  16. And that's why it's stated for Alpha release only in 2026. Currently with it you can see/use like half of the websites. About the same % of functionality as some AAA games have at release. I'm sincerely very positively surprised that they said alpha only in 2026, not 2025. It tells me they're realistic and serious about it.
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  17. This is only the 9th time I've read this comment. That's crazy!
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  18.  @4mROIdg.JRETZ35l6KtdwE_MRRjkqw  Truly, nothing of value in your comment.
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  19. Yeah, but banning the name ??? Is Trump a banned name ? If they really have a problem with politics, they should simply close the threads or posts that are political (and probably asking for trouble). Not banning a name, Jeez Louise!
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  20. That's like saying that the tricycle culture is fundamentally broken. Because in the instructions it assumes (to you) that you have to be a Formula 1 race driver. In case my example seems WAAY blown own of proportions, that's exactly what the OP did. It is a really stupid (emotional?) take. So you know the Linux culture after doing one step-by-step guide ? And you think that's what a network admin needs to know to build a corporate network ? My example with being Formula 1 driver to use a tricycle is on the same level, really.
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  21. For me that's why it's so appealing. You can make so many jokes with and about it
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  22.  @nephatrine  He's probably amazed how same-ish GIMP is to the '90s version
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  23. You can, I think, I hope, also try to push back against such nonsense. I'm sure that Linux Mint has a TON of users that are actually sane. If they receive a massive pushback, maybe this can be corrected and Linux Mint can remain as a a good option to have.
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  24. IIRC GIMP 3 has a lot of color space improvements if not an overhaul. And it's one of the main blockers for Adobe people in using it, from what I've heard.
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  25. Somebody has to first put a light on this nonsense so somebody else (hopefully many) can fight this nonsense. Tech is dying because of these lunatics.
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  26. Don't want to be Canonical's apologist, but I'd say the Ubuntu case is decently justified. It's only for GNOME. Supporting that would mean extra work (that would've been done previously by GNOME) for Canonical. And they do have LTS, so you can stay on 24.04 until 2029 on GNOME. Or on X11 on Kubuntu or any other DE. It's not great, but I can't fault them for not stepping in to do the work for GNOME, it's not their project.
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  27.  @roccociccone597  Why 1989 specifically ?
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  28. It says in the video that they have about $62M profit. And then that they would about break even from the USA alone
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  29. This is Devuan we're speaking about. It will take some time until they have it, they don't simply get the new shiny stuff without proper testing.
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  30. This, and also, the worse ones are naturally filtered out. That is, it's easy to find the good old stuff (well, there might still be hidden gems), while the bad stuff is harder.
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  31. It's been like that for many years already. It focuses and comments more on the future and the trends, not that much on particular stuff that's currently not working. It did that in the first editions, but it got boring and repetitive (for him) fast (every single year to mention how bad games are on Linux, for example), so he shifted on more of a meta analysis. While I wouldn't say no to have an actual list, roundup of all the things still missing or being broken in Linux, I appreciate this culture and trend analysis more, since it's less easy to observe and realize the current state or the near to medium term risks. He is usually a bit more pessimistic in his views, but, in a way, he's contributing to those things not having a change to turn into reality, by outraging people who in turn do something about it, before it's too late.
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  32.  @iamjacobnz  Depends. The NVidia product might not age well, while the Framework desktop will still be a very good desktop chip for everyday use and work (that doesn't need very powerful graphics).
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  33.  @K6ORJ  The problem is that it took 15 years. If X wouldn't have been a deadend, Wayland would've NEVER took off.
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  34.  @dftfire  Simple, the developer experience is better on macOS and Linux. Andreas himself is not using Windows and I'm willing to bet that a good portion of his devs and contributors aren't either. On the launch part... I don't know, it's a bit early to tell. There are people and entities excited about Ladybird and I think that even if the launch is mediocre, with bugs and missing features, it can still go on.
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  35.  @shiks98  Technically the M chips that Apple has (same idea) are more powerful. The M Ultra chips go 16-channel to a max of 800 GB/s. And have both more CPU and GPU cores. Also technically you don't need "faster" RAM and to spend billion $$ to invent it. The RAM is fast enough, what Intel and AMD are skimping WAAY TOO MUCH is limiting the high-end CPUs to dual channel. Threadripper has 4 and 8 channels. And servers usually have 6 and 8 channels. I know there's 12 channels too. Don't know if there's with more. And guess what, with 4 channels you can go (almost) double the bandwidth of dual channel (and bandwidth is what you need). And I say almost because Threadripper and server chips usually keep the RAM at stock (like 4800-5600 MT/s) speeds/frequencies, while the high end desktops usually go higher on that.
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  36. I never thought he is or was insane.
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  37. On your local disk, obviously!!!
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  38. The hell are you smoking ? Zelenski cross dressor ? Money launderer ? You say that COMPARING TO ELON ? The absolute, undisputed conman king ? The man that tells you that Full Self Driving will be done next year since LITERALLY 2014 ?
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  39. IIRC Brave did said that they'll keep having Manifest v2 support, though realistically I don't know for how long they'll be able to do that. I'm sure the maintenance burden will increase as time goes by and that at one point they'll drop it too.
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  40.  @20NewJourney23  In practice IT IS controlled by Google. Edit: I meant to say that Chromium is controlled by Google. Brave, fortunately, isn't.
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  41. @ Correct, except that I still call 128 bits as dual channel (and saw that most people do it too) even though DDR5 has its 64 bits split in dual channels per module.
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  42.  @zanagi  Well, who knows, maybe he was hiking a mountain or something and didn't had the means to properly analyze and respond to this stupid drama.
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  43.  @disks86  Maybe it was coded using OOP ?
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  44. This is a very bad take. Wayland works already much much better than microkernels did, especially the one from MINIX in 1991 or 1992 whenever that debate was.
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  45. The CPU certainly isn't the problem for moving to Linux. On the AI part, you could say that if you tell it to generate things that you imagined, it's still you doing the creation, and the AI is just (like a tool) facilitating, helping you transpose your imagination. The counterpoint is that many people aren't and won't do that.
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  46.  @LTPottenger  Interesting. I still say that it's not the CPU lacking support, unless it somehow belives it has an iGPU when it doesn't. From what you say, it seems it's confused somehow about the GPU. I can't give any actual advice, since I've never tried that combo, I'm still on an almost 8 year old laptop with Intel 6th gen CPU and an NVidia 1060 GPU. I installed Gentoo and I can't say I had any major issues or problems, though I think I had to install the nvidia proprietary drivers twice initially or something. I actually had more issues with the Wi-Fi card until I got it working. Booting from live USB works ? Including multiple distros ? That would be a sign that it's not processor support. Unless, don't know, maybe you installed Debian and the kernel version doesn't know about Ryzen 8000, that might be a thing. But almost all other distros have a newer kernel which should instantly solve the problem. Or maybe you can upgrade the kernel in Debian too, though I don't know how easy that is.
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  47. Where did you got that ? From what I've seen "Doom was first ported to Linux in 1994 by Dave Taylor of id Software". And it makes a lot of sense, Linux in 1993 was very rough.
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  48. I was searching for someone to point this out. This is correct, about half of Steam users on Linux are on Steam Decks, meaning the DESKTOP part of Steam is about 1%, not 2%. Frankly it is much lower than what I expected.
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  49. I agree on your first part, but fully disagree with the last paragraph about "if you're a tech reporter, report on the tech". I mean, you can certainly skip the un-interesting to you stuff, just like I skip political stories some times and sport stories almost all the time. But if something is in the tech, or affects the tech, how, why shouldn't that be reported ? You mean that, say, hypothetically a news item like "Company X in tech is shutting down half of its servers in preparation of the incoming hurricane and floods that will hit tomorrow" should NOT be reported because some people "don't want a weather report" ?? Should the fact that the organization that funds and steers the Linux development decides to spend less and less on that and increasingly more on totally unrelated stuff NOT be reported ? Something like this, where, if people know about it in time, can rally up and push against some stupid political change, so they can save the project NOT be covered, because it's a news item that's political in nature ? I'm just baffled beyond words of how can you say that. It's beyond obvious to me that this SHOULD.... no, sorry, this MUST be reported on. You can simply filter them out if you're not interested. But the reporting of something that affects tech, by tech journalists absolutely must be done. That's journalism 101. Jeez Louise!
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  50. I'd say that a more effictive way would be to be involved into their discussions and push against stupid things. Though supporting the alternatives is not bad either.
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