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[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

decent format

poorly supported

Hmm. I know what you mean but wide support is like 90% of the usefulness for a general image format.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

its kinda like linux, its great and everybody loves it

but only 2% of people use it

as lemmy shows those 2% realllllly like it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Don't I know it, as a decade+ Linux user. Technically best thing doesn't always win the popularity contest. For a general use operating system lack of software (and game) support is a similar issue as lack of support for image format and it's really harming Linux too.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Steamdeck has really pushed devs to make their games linux compatible. Native would be nice. But this is great. I haven't booted into windows for games for most of the year.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Valve has been a real blessing for Linux. I haven't had a dual boot system in many years but some games just doesn't work or needs fiddling. And while I'm fine with that, I know most aren't. And that's fine too. Maybe someday.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Native would be nice, but devs not having the need to maintain an extra version is why there's been so much progress in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Gaming on Linux is easy now, as long as it's a Steam game.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's piss easy, as long as it it is one of those games and not one of those

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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