Witcher 3 on PS4 has slightly better graphics and insane texture pop in and some frame drops. I'd take "inferior" xOne version any time of the day.
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So those monitors are required if you have 2GB RAM, no SSD and use poorly designed software - seems about right for a linux user, which cannot afford and OS.
Windows XP, Vista, 8. I mean even if these fuck ups haven't brought Linux market share above rounding error, nothing will.
One thing that could make desktop Linux viable - is throwing transparency, openess, customizability and all similar "good" Linux stuff through the window, having a dictatorship with good UX people and forcing users to one true way.
People do not care that they can tinker with their desktop - I really do not care that I cannot make my macOS or Windows look like screenshots in unixporn subreddit - I just want an experience that's concise, the same for every application, polished, clean, lean, etc etc etc. Windows had this in Windows 7 (10th version with UWP programs for tablets really disturbs the UX), macOS still has this.
Elementary and especially Solus distributions are doing that - "oooh you want X? well screw you buddy, that's poor UX".
Are there choices? No, I do not see any choice. You see i3, i3-gaps, fluxbox, openbox, xfce, gnome, cinnamon, mate, kde, panteon, budgie, bspwm etc etc and go "whoa, all these choices", meanwhile I couldn't care less even if there three times more clones of a tilling wms, I just want macOS desktop. Choices of stuff that I will never use are useless.
Yeah Linux attracts some really strange people - why, why, why do you need these monitors? Why do you need conky with your hostname? With your IP? With your kernel version?
Your workstation is not another random server you administrate, so hostname showing is absolutely not required (unless when you sit down in front of a computer you are high as hell and cannot tell it's your computer, or just too stupid to tell which computer it is)...
There are times I need to check CPU usage, but simple eye candy for 12 year olds who watched too much Hacker movies widgets won't help anyways...
Somehow never noticed that on macOS - either applications are designed better and only known long tasks change the cursor, or there's a system wide control - show spinner near cursor only if app was in busy state for 500 ms or something.
This year tried out Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Manjaro and Solus. Well, Solus on boot on my system had a black screen, and when booted in VirtualBox on Windows - black screen but atleast network notification showed that I'm connected to the internet, after I dismissed the notification - black screen again.
1) Typing sudo before everything. Entering your password everytime OS farts. Geez. Even installing nodejs required to type sudo, meanwhile on macOS - brew install node. Also Ubuntu has outdated packages (nodejs version in their "up do date" repository starts with a zero, need to hunt down ppas, I mean at this point package repository loses it's point, because it's easier to go to the package's website and download it than googling out two ppas and checking which one is more legit, buut then you run into another issue - windows has exe files, macos has dmg files, linux has a zip file and it's not recommended to install this way, what a royal mess).
2) No good dock software. There's plank, xfce, kde provides almost "docks", but all plainly suck. What I want from dock - notifications in dock on app icon (you got 2 unread messages in skype, mail app, messenger, etc etc - show a little overlay on the icon with number "2") and tasks in submenu - right click on skype icon - common tasks like changing online status, right click on music player icon - show Play/Pause, Skip song, etc etc. There's a bazillion choices and every linux fanboy touts about the POWER OF CHOICE - but all choices suck (so you could say there's no choice, there's even no one option).
3) I really love global app menu. Well, I was told Linux has THE customizability... Apparently not when you want something more technically difficult than one of the same tilling wm or conky config - for the most part using jaytana and vala global menu worked, but IntelliJ IDEA's globbal menu entries did nothing on click and some gtk3 software didn't hid their own app menu, so not really working well. Customizability my ass.
I like linux on server, it's allright there (although FreeBSD with clearly defined base system and /usr is actually designed), but as a desktop OS - not even close.
Node.js is garbage (well, good for simple crud apps) and so is JS.
No, that's xBox/PS store. On my PC I have: Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Epic Games Launcher, Glyph aaaand Windows Store for Gears of War 4/Forza Horizon 3. Achievements and friends are scattered through all these crapware programs.
PC gaming is a mess.
Oh man, I still remember when Microsoft tried to pull "steam" on their xOne - backlash was insane and they backed out. I wonder why do PC gamers let Steam, Origin, Battle.net, other crapware apps walk all over them with DRM. Buy a console, buy a game - you do not like it - sell the disk on ebay.
You enjoy watching movies, sitcoms, documentaries, etc, on a 27" computer monitor? Just buy a TV and external hard drive, it's so much better watching stuff on 55" TV on a couch...
The design. The url. Clicked "add to card" - default JS alert popup. Then some HTML pop up showed up saying something about my IP being banned because of BOTNET? What? Now refreshing the page I get a timeout.
This is literally the worst eshop I've seen in the past few years. I wouldn't hire a man who made this atrocity and sure as hell wouldn't like working with him.
There's always a semi-automatic transmission. In my Lexus IS 350 I can set a low gear before overtaking for that "instant throttle response".
I would rage in traffic if I had to do "clutch, neutral, cluth, first gear" mantra for 20 minutes to move a little in traffic - releasing break pedal to crawl a bit and then pressing it again to stop is a god send after driving manual for 6 years. :)
Manual is good for 300+ bhp weekend cars, not daily use cars.
Visual Studio Code generates project via third party tool - dotnet new. Refactoring, code completion is done via third party tool - Roslyn (?). Etc. It's an editor with plugins. Unlike Visual Studio or Jetbrains Rider.
.NET open source and officialy supported on *nix, some version of SQL Server on Linux, cross platform Visual Studio Code editor, now Visual Studio for macOS...