in theory it should be somewhat more responsive because there’s no sandboxing or containerization going on, nix operates with tools that are much more straightforward

Syncthing works over local LAN and public internet relays, and is very good at traversing NAT

how long will it take any nation to do anything about a technologically advanced police state lol

mullvad has been banned in march yeah

i sincerely doubt it lol

twitter and reddit were already not popular over here, the replacements for them even less so

and matrix… it’s a messenger, the government doesn’t care about messengers at all lately (eg whatsapp was left after facebook was banned on the premise there’s no mass media functionality)

cpu bound tasks on linux are usually completed much faster due to just how ridiculously overoptimised linux cpu schedulers are

and dxvk can be faster than dx11 and older, but that’s a pretty unusual case

i think it’s mostly due to how prevalent fake hdr monitors are

most people don’t understand it’s essentially impossible to get hdr without an OLED/microLED or MAYBE VA and keep buying into marketing bullshit, which leads them to having pretty shitty experiences

relatively weak sandboxing

because xorg exists, not because flatpak can’t do sandboxing well

dependencies get bundled a few times

only if there’s a need to do so. identical runtimes are shared

depends on the application developer to be available to do things like supply chain attacks

yeah as if a rogue package maintainer can’t do the same

That’s the kernel apis. Those have to be stable. Userland always changes much faster.

I’m by no means a purest but I’ve found WSL… More annoying than using Linux as is. Network oddities, random programs not functioning and just generally subpar as is.

Linux today is plug and play in almost all areas. Off the top of my head the ones that have problems are creativity (no Adobe and also wacky color management, though it’s getting a complete rework with Wayland setting it on par with macOS) and engineering (next to no support from big CADs).

No, not really. Most image formats produce completely unreadable jumbo only meant to be parsed with clever maths.

ironically enough i think microsoft (at least until very recently) has had a very lenient stance on piracy exactly because of this

piracy is the key to the consumer market in developing countries, consumer market is the key to enterprise (where the actual money lies)

Snap is just flatpak but worse for most cases (the only exception being cli apps). The fact canonical are pushing it so badly makes Linux more fragmented for no real reason.