Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. There are so many videos showing you how to set up Bazzite or ChimeraOS on the current batch of 780M / 890M mini-PCs. I don't understand how the companies that make them don't just ship them that way.
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  2.  @cameronbosch1213  Some of them will sell you a barebones unit without an SSD, so I don't think it's that so much as not investing in an employee who knows desktop Linux.
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  3. I'm intrigued by the comment about there already being a Linux driver for the Xilinx co-processor and it theoretically being usable on 7040 devices—feel like looking into it and reporting back? Because if it is, it makes it 50x more likely that I'll be buying that AMD Framework laptop (or a GPD Win 2 Max 2) in the next year.
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  4. I will bet you a dollar that when Microsoft retires the NT kernel, they'll switch to using the Linux* kernel. Now, NT may be around for another five years or fifty, but I don't see Microsol developing another kernel. *Imagine if they didn't and adopted XNU or, even more hilariously, HURD!
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  5.  @kevinsteinman8967  Impressive. And props to your microSD card maker!
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  6. Eh. There are plenty of distros that "stay out of your way." Base Debian, Ubuntu Server—or even minimalized. That said, none of them have the documentation or the customization options (save NixOS or Gentoo).
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  7. This was such an interesting question, I looked it up, and the answer is: it depends on the distro. For some—like SUSE—the answer is "HECK NO!" For others like Arch, it's "Pls no," meaning you can find scripts to do it complete with all the reasons not to do it and the things to do instead (read: use /etc/aliases)
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  8.  @nervaproject  They'd prefer it. SteamOS doesn't make them any more money than Steam-on-Ubuntu does. And it's not like you can't use other game stores on the Steam Deck.
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  9.  @tablettablete186  I hear what you're saying, but to me these seem like signs of how far Ubuntu has fallen—I would never recommend Ubuntu to a newbie, but I would recommend in a heartbeat any of the de-snapified derivatives that don't run GNOME and have flatpak OOTB.
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  10.  @zxuiji  Is there a reason not to tie your versioning to the library version then?
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  11.  @us4tiyny4n  COSMIC is absolutely daily drivable if you don't mind dealing with jank and other "alpha problems" (I also suspect the Pop_OS! image is more stable than the Arch experience). Just make sure to install SteamTinkerLauncher so you can force gamescope.
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  12. While I think these use cases are noble, I do want to caution that a model being "open source," "permissively licensed" or "open weight" is only half the issue—if the training dataset is not open as well, there's a near certainty that the models were trained on copyrighted material. It's amazing that the computer vision models were trained on widely available open datasets, but they're coupling that capability with GPT-2, which was trained on CommonCrawl, which just indiscriminately scraped the web. CommonCrawl claims their dataset constitutes "fair use," but time will tell whether that's legally defensible—let alone morally justified. There's also the very real fact that transformer models are taking system resources and draining your battery / driving up your power bill. If you're vision impaired, I'm sure that's a fair trade-off. But for other people who neither need nor want alt text, performing this inferences should be opt-in and disabled by default. Anyway, that's my 2¢. Ultimately, Mozilla is being a lot more ethical here than pretty much anyone else. But every proposed application of GenAI should be met with at least some degree of skepticism.
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  13. ​ @Poldovico Yes, for this specific use case, I agree. But I also understand the perspective that there is no ethical use of system built unethically, and, at the very least, it should be a conversation.
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  14.  @Poldovico  Really bad example, since the current medical consensus is that the results of those studies have little—if any—scientific value (the results and conclusions were wrong and likely set back our understanding by decades). Also pretty bold of you to trot out that example to someone with my pfp and last name, but 🤷‍♂️
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  15.  @Poldovico  Again, I agree with you about the specific. However, I still think it's something we should always keep in mind in order to ensure that the benefits outweigh the potential harms (which, again! in this case they do!)
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  16. Have they already officially decided to skip GIMP 4 to jump straight to targeting GTK+-5?
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  17. IIRC Playstations have run some variant of FreeBSD forever. Honestly, I'm willing to bet that all the major studios would prefer to drop "PC" ports in favor of native Linux build if the market would support it.
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  18. Immutable filesystem based distros (ChimeraOS, Silverblue, SteamOS) say hi. Edit: Sorry--still trying to grok how NixOS uses immutability
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  19. ​ @SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Strange times indeed. Though maybe it's helpful for one's psyche to call Freund a Postgres developer who gets a paycheck from Microsol. Don't forget that Redmond runs GitHub and employs Guido van Rossum, along with dozens of other FOSS luminaries.
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  20. They're also clutch for binding to modifier keys when programming keyboard macros (RTS games, Minecraft Java, or, tiling WMs like Sway).
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  21. lol, imagine a world where every weapons targeting system and nuclear weapon schematic were public domain... I mean, I'm not against it per se...
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  22.  @arthurmoore9488  Can something be "confidential" and still public domain? That's the issue I was responding to.
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  23. That's awesome. I wonder if it's a backronym, though.
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  24. ​ @IbilisSLZ Well it's definitely not XP grass 😝—I still can't believe that desktop background was a real photo and not computer modeled.
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  25.  @FlanPoirot  Today I learned! I though it was the release codename (I'd seen references to "Epoch 2" scheduled for some time in 2025)
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  26.  @conjurermast  Agreed. But—and maybe I'm misremembering—doesn't Chromium receive pretty timely updates on all Debian/Ubuntu branches?
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  27. The problem is that SteamOS is optimized for one particular piece of hardware and one particular usecase—gaming. It's a 🐶 💩 choice of OS for software development, 3D design, AV editing or general productivity. And it's going to run like 🐶 💩 on any hardware that's not an APU codenamed after a FFVII character.
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  28.  @curious-pixelz  Only if you break immutability or set up Nix. Trust me—I tried to make the Steam Deck my daily driver, but it's so much more difficult than it's worth.
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  29.  @notuxnobux  That would explain my issues—I tend to prefer GTK applications and desktop environments. On the Wayland side, though, it's really hard to beat the simplicity of env = XCURSOR_SIZE,14 in my hyprland.conf (I know that's not font size, but you get the idea)
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  30. I mean, I never browse the AUR. I only packages from it that are: 1. Recommended by the Arch wiki, 2. Recommended by a credible (and recent) blog, or, 3. Linked to from the official documentation of a project I would otherwise be building from source I also always check the AUR page for: A. date of last version B. comments along the lines of "this broke my system and hard-bricked by pet badger."
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  31. (ffmpeg absolutely has a flatpaks, btw—it's a runtime / dependency for other flatpaks like Handbrake and OBS, IIRC)
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  32.  @anon_y_mousse  I mean the original authors.
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  33. ​ @eriklundstedt9469 I do, but unfortunately YT is eating them. Let me see if I can thread the needle. Search for "sway" + "nix" + "steam deck" for a great end-to-end tutorial that generalizes to Hyprland as well. Note that with SteamOS 3.5, the /nix partition is already set up.
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  34. CUDA is the API calls. ZLUDA is a way to translate those API calls to ROCm.
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  35.  @Roxor128  pacman logs (and, more drastically, Timeshift) have really been coming in clutch for me in these situations.
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  36. They even let you try-before-you-"buy" thanks to WSL! Honestly, between them owning GitHub and employing some of the best minds in Open Source (Guido van Rossum, the Postgres guy,...), Microsol has done more to further Linux development in the last five years than anyone short of Gabe Newell.
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  37. 75% of the time when I buy a game with a dedicated Linux port, it's a Unity game I force Steam to use the Windows version to get better stability.
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  38. I had no idea about kittens before yesterday's video. Forget icat—they have a remote files / ssh client! That's pretty baller.
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  39. ​ @DMSBrian24 if device IDs are unique, then the malicious actor would have to "clone" the allowed device. Which is obviously a risk, but it's less of a risk than the "charging cable" you bought from Andy's Web Services (& Tchotchky Emporium) installing spyware.
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  40. ​ @insu_na I thought PKGBUILDs cloned the repos. I assumed the 5.6.1-2 builds were just scrubbing the dormant payloads.
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  41. Taking the time to set up a good display manager has been totally worth it for me in terms of being able to trial different DEs / WMs. Finding one that works with all your sessions can be tough (ly didn't work for Pantheon; LightDM is hot garbage didn't support COSMIC), but SDDM seems to work with pretty much anything.
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  42.  @joshallen128  Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but the only way I see to solve this problem would be for GPLv4 to be explicitly incompatible with components that didn't cary the same end-user protections found under GPLv3. That means no Linux kernel, no WINE or Proton (LGPL), no scikit-learn (BSD 3-Clause). That means it's not happening.
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  43. Been using COSMIC since Friday, and I've been positively giddy about it. Hearing your critiques, I clocked, "Oh yeah, I had that issue¹, oh for sure, that would be nice," but it didn't change my glowingly positive opinion. About halfway through, I realized why the cognitive dissonance—I don't love COSMIC despite the bugs, but because of them. Since I grew out my neckbeard and actually started caring about my DE (ca 2020), everything I've used has been boring. Either: - Boring because it just works (Budgie, Pantheon, sway), or - Boring because it requires an hour of reading through config files and recommend extras (Hyprland, KDE) COSMIC is the first DE I've used since, I wanna say, Mir that has felt exciting, partially because the learning curve is gentle (config through a generous, but not overwhelming number of GUIs; keyboard shortcuts and window management features I'm still discovering on my own; hybrid tiler with training wheels) and because things don't just work (mostly it's been Wayland issues with flatpaks), it's exciting, challenging and rewarding when I find a workaround or solution. This is the "OG" Linux experience that got me hooked in 2006 with Dapper Drake—90% daily driveable with 10% charlie foxtrot—and I'm so delightfully surprised I get to experience it again. ¹Not the screen flickering though—AMD 6700XT here has been rock solid with dual display. Especially since OBS didn't capture it, are you sure you don't have to loose monitor cable?
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  44.  @JR-uy2nd  Some, but not all. Take Brodie, Louis Rossmann or anyone else who just provides commentary on current events. OBS for recording and a compositing editor like Kdenlive will meet their needs. And OBS + the community Stream Deck UI means that Linux is viable for streamers.
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  45.  @jarod1701  I know you said "most" users, but the continued existence of the Mac Studios and Mac Pros suggests the market segment very much exists.
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  46. ​ @terrydaktyllus1320 Steam supports DRM but does not require it. I have bought plenty of Steam games that are DRM-free and can be launched outside of the Steam launcher. Nothing against GOG, btw—I wish them all the best. Competition is good, and we should count ourselves lucky that we have choices.
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  47.  @dispatch-indirect9206  It's actually more nefarious than that—strict interpretation of NC means: - I can't distribute this content from my own site if I serve ads, even if the ads don't actually cover the server costs - I can't use this content as sample assets in a training I teach to my OnlyFans Patreon members - I can't post a video containing the content to YouTube, because YouTube may make revenue from it! I don't really think most people using CC-BY-NC really intend those restrictions—I think they're just trying to prevent people from selling their art on Redbubble—and CC really needs a new variant that's better thought out.
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  48. 5:30 "Back then" nothing--my previous employer as recently as 2018 wouldn't allow us to use any GPL libraries because of IP fears, even if it was an internal-facing product, and even if it was GPLv3 which explicitly carves out a source code exception for SaaS (hence the need for Affero).
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  49. As long as the disk isn't encrypted, though, you can always grab a recovery image, chroot into your system, then passwd (or install and configure sudo). That's what happened to me on my first Arch install (in a VM, so I really could have just wiped and started from scratch). That was an educational day, as it was the one on which I learned that Arch base doesn't include any networking or DNS tools 😂
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  50. I've had such a hard time finding a DM that works with my sessions. LightDM doesn't work with COSMIC (or GNOME), ly doesn't work with Pantheon. GDM is so far the only one that works with everything, which is annoying, because it is not a good DM in terms of multi-monitor, ease of configuration or just general UX.
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