• just started Shenmue 3, I’m a big fan of the first two games from the Dreamcast era
• continue playing Sailor Moon: Another Story RPG on the SNES through RetroArch

As you can see, I’m oldschool fan. :D There are so many games installed and available to me, every time the Deck is opened up, I have choice paralyzes.

On a high level, the problems aren’t about the programming language itself; it’s mostly all the surrounding stuff like upgrade issues and the tooling. And in these points, Rust excels in my opinion.

Thanks, but… Is this output from an Ai model?

LTT - Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel tried out Linux, PopOS!. And there was a horrible outcome, where he tried to uninstall or install Steam and the dependencies would remove the entire desktop for whatever reason. Rendering the installation broken and unusable obviously. There was a big warning in the terminal, but he didn’t read and ignored it and continued.

There was lot of debate, but ultimately it was fault from both sides: ignoring warning that explains what happens, and no safeguards from the distro so this bug should not make it unusable.

LOL fair enough. I guess a more friendly description of that would be “the distro must assume you don’t read everything”. Okay so that makes sense, given what happened.

For what in example? I used Windows for 8 years and then from time to time after that, plus helping my brothers computer with modern Windows. I never had to use the commandline. But maybe there are some tasks that requires it, because there is no GUI for. What would that be?

What is the LTT Linux test? I know its a reference to the LTT YouTube channel and the fail they experienced. But how do we a LTT Linux test and report it as a success?

But streaming means they are prepared and they know. Its a decision and therefore not violating privacy, because streaming is not a privacy act.

I don’t understand what you mean by that. So you agree with me. I did not say anything changed because of Ai, and you agree on this. It is privacy infringement. But… with Ai of today, they have a huge incentive and they can actually parse and use the data. I mean is it really that unbelievable? They have the capacity to do it now, before that, they didn’t. So this changed if you ask to me.

Seeing what I play, what I play, how often, when? Basically everything. What is that not privacy at all? They can analyze every key stroke, can read what I do, which games I play, how i decide to do anything. Besides, they would see every chat I do in the games too. They can see my private Steam account in example and could analyze everything on screen. Which is usually only visible to my family or parts only to me.

Using Nvidia GeForce Now is massive privacy infringing, if we believe they do all of this. Or they could if they wanted to, you give them access at least.

So you just give up on your privacy, so a big corporation can profit of it? And you think they don’t sell the data to other Ai companies? I’m not a fan of this.

I’ve never heard of this before. Nice to have other variations. https://www.redotengine.org/ I wonder why they forked Godot. Also they don’t like to mention it at all it seems: https://docs.redotengine.org/en/stable/about/introduction only at the bottom as

© Copyright 2024-present by the Redot community, modified from an original work by Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur and the Godot community (CC BY 3.0).

If I were a game developer, I would probably stick to Godot unless there is a really good reason for relying on this fork. One has to trust them fully.

https://github.com/HoloISO/releases/releases

I don’t think HoloISO is developed anymore. Last release is from Jun 3, 2024.

POSIX shell is the standard that all shells should support (Fish does not I think). Its basically what is executed if you run it as /usr/bin/sh script. POSIX is not a specific shell itself, its just the standard. /usr/bin/sh is usually a symbolic link to an actual shell interpreter. And any shell could support it, in example Bash with its compatibility mode (what is usually done by default in todays Linux systems). Or Dash is designed to do that specifically and only that as far as I know.

Bash on the other hand is an enhanced shell that introduces some concepts, features and changes default behavior of the standard POSIX. That is when the script runs with /usr/bin/bash. This is also used in your terminal as the interactive shell. And ZSH in example is similar to Bash, but has some extended features over Bash. They are relatively speaking similar. I think ZSH is or was the default shell in MacOS too.

As for KSH, I don’t have no experience about this myself. I only know it exists and just saw checklists of differences.

However my personal shell preference is zsh. When I write scripts I do so using bash. The two shells are 99% similar on a day to day basis, but I prefer zsh for a user interface. So I use one for day to day and the other for scripting.

I used to do the same, Bash as the default script interpreter and ZSH as my terminal interactive shell. Worked well. I also had Dash as the /usr/bin/sh installed. But once I installed a new OS, I did not want to set it up immediately and wanted to do it later. Then I realized that I do not need to and frankly didn’t notice any difference. Besides ZSH was a bit slow here and there with the kind of setup I had. So since then I stayed on Bash only again and don’t miss most of the stuff (but ZSH had some nice features).

I wouldn’t have even mentioned Fish here, its too different. If you going to learn a scripting language that is this different, then there are even more shells out there. I would stick to Bash (or ZSH for that matter). Especially if its the first shell language you get into.

In the past I replaced Bash as the default POSIX shell interpreter /usr/bin/sh with Dash. Normally the /usr/bin/sh is run by Bash in compatibility mode, if no Bash features are needed. Dash is an independent implementation of /usr/bin/sh compatibility and in theory should startup a little faster than Bash for those scripts. In practice I didn’t notice any difference on my modern computers (and I mean more than a decade old by now). My personal experience and recommendation is not to worry about this and not install Dash at all. If you do, nothing will break or get worse, but I believe nothing is won either.

Dash as an interpreter for /usr/bin/sh is only for shell scripts, that run the shell in default mode without Bash or other features. It is not intended for use in the terminal in an interactive manner.

Learning Bash? Oh hell yeah! The language is a bit ugly and has really lot of pitfalls and dumb language constructs or default behavior. But it is the default and you can rely on Bash for the most part in Linux. You can write scripts, understand others scripts and make changes to them. And it is even used in the IT industry everywhere (well maybe not everywhere…). But that’s not all, you have to learn Linux stuff too, not just the scripting language to make most use of it. While Bash the language itself is ugly, it is still useful to learn the basics and get into it a bit deeper over time. I fully recommend it.

Thanks for the explanation. That reminds me an issue. I changed my default gamepad.

At least one issue with EndeavourOS I had in the past (and that’s not an issue with the distribution, but with the model of having newest Kernel) was that the newest Kernel sometimes broke the driver for my gamepad, XBox One S proprietary dongle using medusalix xone driver from AUR to be specific. So I had to wait sometimes days or longer until the driver was updated in order to use the controller. This issue could be avoided when using an LTS Kernel instead, which is very easy to setup in EndeavourOS as it comes with such a GUI.

Your given arguments makes lot of sense. So it is about stability (in the sense of not changing, not about bugs). So you seek a setup and forget installation, which is understandable and maybe would have preferred doing so too in your case.

Also if software is Open Source plays a lot here. Anything that is Open Source is never done software. And then what if the community decompiles into source code? Super Mario 64 was done game I suppose, then fans decompiled and wrote the source code for the game and keep working to improve or add functionality. Now its undone?

The term “done” is so vague, it makes no sense to talk about it without declaring what it is. It’s like using a variable in a duck typed language and just change its meaning randomly when its needed… (yeah Python byte me on this in the past… sorry I still have the wound).

What does “done” mean? If software does what it should do, has implemented all goals in development and does not need maintenance, then it is done. However, the more complex software is, the more likely security fixes and compatibility fixes need to be done.

The solitaire game that came with Windows 3.1. Certainly that’s done.

Why is the game “done”? It does not work on modern systems anymore, does it? I don’t get what “done” means for this game.

Super Mario Brothers is not only done, but also awesome.

How is it “done”? They released the game and it still has bugs and does not run on modern machines directly. The fans added lot of features through modding that the game could use to have. It’s just abandoned and not updated.

I don’t get what “done” means here. The given examples are a bit weird. Sure games are easier to be declared as done, than “regular” computer software on PC in example. Games for old consoles off course have not the same security issues as on modern PCs in example. These examples are more like “abandoned”, as their platforms are.

Why did you change from Endeavour to Debian? Didn’t it work well on the MacBook you have? Just curious, no judging.