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  • Windows and DOS games started working well later, as WINE and DOS emulator were evolving.

    But Linux had a thriving gaming scene of its own:

    • You’ve already mentioned Loki who made native ports.
    • Another type of “ports” were game engines made from scratch that used the level files of the original, games like Doom, Transport Tycoon, Caesar III, Panzer General, Stunts, ReVolt etc. You had to own the game files but the executable was FOSS.
    • There were lots of cool native games, many shooters (Warsow , Nexuiz, Cube, Tremulous), strategy games, cool arcade games (Tux Racer, Atomic Worm, H-Craft, Droid Assault), the rogue genre which debuted on UNIX and had tons of variants and so on.

    I’m only a casual gamer so this is just stuff I ran across occasionally, there was probably more.



  • Why do you want to use Shouko? Yeah it can bulk-tag anime but it doesn’t necessarily do a better job than Jellyfin with AniDB plugin. Also, it tends to hammer their API like an idiot and will get your user temp-banned or even perma-banned (depending on the size of your collection), while the Jellyfin plugin has rate limits.

    I used it once when I was moving my collection to Jellyfin and I barely got my account back.

    I would strongly suggest using just the regular Jellyfin plugins and adding titles to the directory in small batches and taking breaks if it stops recognizing them because it means the API is throttling you.



  • For me, educational stuff was all windows with a small amount of macs and I don’t think I ever saw a Linux system in actual use anywhere.

    Linux systems started being common in CompSci schools around mid-90s, around the time LAMP took off (fun fact, Apache, MySQL and PHP were all launched in 1995).

    Previously in CompSci you’d get to use all kinds of UNIX servers. My uni still had Solaris servers with dumb terminals, and I got my first sysadmin certification on SCO.UNIX / OpenServer.





  • I am still hoping it will hit 10% market share within my life time.

    Do we really want that?

    We have it pretty good right now. I would actually say we’re living in a golden age of desktop Linux: there’s constant innovation, good support, you get to do pretty much everything you need, while flying under the radar.

    Linux has won the majority of the industry (servers, mobile etc.) so it’s not like it has anything left to prove.

    If it starts getting noticeable on the desktop I fear we’re just gonna get negative attention. Users who take and not contribute, because Windows had taught them to be entitled. Unwanted attention from Microsoft, who I bet are not going to be doing nice things once they start getting paranoid about it.

    I really don’t think that large companies like Adobe will care about Linux even at 10% and even if they did, they are a super toxic company nowadays, the least we get to interact with them the better.


  • This whole debacle is a festival of stupidity:

    • It’s a personal project that taxes the sole maintainer disproportionately.
    • Millions of idiots use it blindly and end up building elaborate software on it. https://xkcd.com/2347/
    • I’ll bet you 99.99% of those idiots use it only for ip.isPrivate(), which you can write yourself in 5 minutes.
    • The CVE is a non-issue (who the fuck would call a function that takes string notation with hex numbers?)
    • Appealing and reverting or downgrading CVEs is super complicated.

    At this point the maintainer is fucked no matter what they do, so archiving the project and telling everybody to fuck off right back was really the only sane thing to do.


  • Then fork it and do that.

    These projects are structured as hobbyist projects and get whatever time the maintainer can spare. I have projects like that, they’re useful, but I’m not gonna prioritize them over… anything else, come to think of it.

    The fact so many people treat a hobbyist project with one maintainer as critical infrastructure is insane, but that’s on them. Everybody likes free software, nobody likes to help or pay the maintainer.