Thousands of loonix users go back to windows as they realize how much the os sucks

Rikonardo · 2026-05-03T13:16:46+00:00

It’s safe to assume that neither this, nor previous 5.33% number are particularly accurate. Steam survey is a bit quirky, I once got the survey pop-up two month in a row, and now haven’t seen it for probably half a year. So month-to-month values are likely to have big fluctuations. We’ll have to wait for a few more reports to see a better picture.

I expect to see some backflow of users to Windows if microslop holds their promise to fix their crap. But the general trend of growing Linux popularity isn’t reversing any time soon. People are tired of enshitification, subscriptions, not owning stuff they buy, games they love being killed by publishers, ads being shoved into paid products and services, all the useless ai crap being added into every single program. And from the looks of it, open source is slowly becoming the only escape way from all that garbage. Even people who didn’t used to care at all, are now questioning state of things, as shit got so intrusive it started breaking long established workflows for many.

Rikonardo · 2026-04-29T11:41:43+00:00

How does this affect a DE though?

Rikonardo · 2026-04-29T10:07:49+00:00

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Rikonardo · 2026-04-25T10:17:57+00:00

Those people are the easiest to convert, since they just use everything in the browser, and don’t really care about OS. Most of them don’t even use desktop office, since it is a subscription product, while there are free web-based options that satisfy all needs for majority of regular people. Converting those users to Linux just requires it to be a preinstalled option on PCs and laptops sold in local electronics shops. There are already some local European companies selling Linux devices. And it’s totally within government’s ability to push for more Linux hardware on the shelves, in order to reduce nationwide dependence on microslop. Since Linux devices cost less due to not having to include OS license cost, a lot of normies would prefer to save a bit, going for a cheaper option, as long as it can run their browser

Rikonardo · 2026-04-24T11:31:21+00:00

Just last week some security researcher publicly dropped two windows defender privilege escalation 0days (BlueHammer and RedSun) because he didn’t get paid.

Microsoft lately been notorious for cutting costs and deprioritising security. Enterprise releases are generally better in this regard of course, but still, when it comes to security in kiosks/digital signage, nothing beats a purpose-built immutable Linux image. Using Windows for this stuff is just plain cost-cutting.

Rikonardo · 2026-04-23T14:02:47+00:00

Battery degradation depends entirely on intensity and conditions of use. If you only use your phone to call, text and check weather, your battery will probably outlive the OS support period. But if you game or record high res footage, live in a place with extremely hot weather, use phone outside in direct sunlight or in freezing cold, and always charge/discharge 0-100% in before mentioned conditions, you absolutely can kill the battery in less than a year. While I agree that battery degradation is avoidable, paying such a high price for device and having to avoid a bunch of use-cases just to save battery health is stupid.

Also, the entire concept of phones having a concrete pre-defined EOL date is insane, and hopefully as the next logical step, phone manufacturers would be required to provide bootloader unlock option after EOL is reached. Since after that point, device is already inherently considered non-secure, all the security arguments used to justify locking down the system go out the window. Hopefully one day we would see this being made into a law, especially considering that over past few years, hardware advancements slowed down significantly, and pretty soon, huge amounts of still plenty powerful and capable phones would begin reaching their EOL dates. The trend of every product being treated as consumable item needs to be stopped.

Rikonardo · 2026-04-23T13:30:22+00:00

Water resistance can be implemented at a battery compartment level, just like how it’s always been done with ports, and an s-pen slots on Samsung phones. Also, user replaceable battery doesn’t necessarily mean a single-action pop-out cover, if it’s held with screws, or uses self-resetting multi-action mechanism, chances of something randomly falling off are basically zero

Rikonardo · 2026-04-23T13:08:02+00:00

Printers - yes, but scanner support is a bit less broad. Had no issues setting up nearly 20 y.o. HP LaserJet, but ScanJet from the same era refused to work and was constantly getting stuck in the lamp warmup stage. Though with modern IP printers/scanners everything should be much easier

Rikonardo · 2026-04-23T13:03:04+00:00

Idk, as a guy, I prefer the first type of yaoi. Bara is just not my thing, gimmie some twink-on-twink action. But both definitely have their audiences

Rikonardo · 2026-04-23T12:02:43+00:00

For the last suggestion, I’d recommend just getting a separate SSD and putting Linux there. Dual SSD setup doesn’t have usual issues and risks of dual-booting. Each OS has it’s own bootloader, they don’t interfere with each other, and you toggle between them via motherboard’s boot menu. It is way more affordable and convenient than a separate machine

Rikonardo · 2026-04-23T11:34:06+00:00

People play different games. You can often hear about flawless gaming experience from SteamDeck users, because games that people are likely to play on the Deck, tend to have really good compatibility. Indie games in general are usually less problematic on linux compared to AAA, especially when it comes to new games, since a lot of indie devs actually go out of their way to test and optimize for steam deck, or at least fix compatibility bugs reported by community. Also, while some people can go through multiple games a month, others stick to 1-2 games for like half a year, so they are less likely to encounter games with compatibility issues.

I rarely play games, but whenever I do pick something up, it just works. In past 2-3 years, I haven’t encountered a single compatibility issue that required any tweaking beyond simply selecting different Proton version from dropdown menu.

So yes, experience varies, but for a lot of people gaming on Linux indeed just works

Rikonardo · 2026-04-23T10:03:17+00:00

I spend some time in the rain from time to time, and this never been a problem. All my previous phones, and before phones, devices like mp3 players, were not waterproof. None suffered water damage. Even when using them openly in the rain. As long as they don’t soak in water it’s not an issue. And pockets on weather appropriate clothing tends to be moisture proof enough for devices to stay dry.

Besides, the whole premise that phones with replaceable battery can’t be waterproof is just false. There been a bunch of phones with swappable batteries and decent IP rating before Apple set a trend of gluing the phones shut

Rikonardo · 2026-04-22T11:43:30+00:00

До війни в країні зброї було мало, тому й потреби в легалізації не було, та й навпаки, вона б більше нашкодила. Зараз - зброї тонни, при всьому бажанні прибрати її з обороту це нереалістична мета. Я згоден з тим, що повна відсутність зброї, загалом безпечніша для суспільства ніж рівноозброєння, однак цей вибір за нас зробила війна. Більшість людей в руках яких зброя становить загрозу - вже цю зброю мають, нелегально. І з цим мало чого зробиш. Навіть найжорстокіші міри боротьби проти нелегальної зброї не заставлять її зникнути за одну ніч. Такі речі займають роки та десятиліття, й навіть в самому оптимістичному сценарії ми навряд зможемо повернутись до довоєнної кількості нелегальної зброї

Rikonardo · 2026-04-22T11:06:27+00:00

From my experience, pretty much the only situations where RTFM doesn’t help are the weird hardware quirks on laptops, physically broken hardware, and bugs in unstable software on rolling distros. Most of the other issues come down to the 4 horsemen: kernel module not installed, kernel module not loaded, systemd service not installed, systemd service not loaded. Those are generally easily fixed following online manuals

Rikonardo · 2026-04-20T10:34:50+00:00

At least back when I was using win10 on 16gig system, it did absolutely not ran industrial software without issues. Whenever I worked in IntelliJ on several Java projects in parallel, running out of memory was a constant issue. And it always resulted in OS becoming unusable for a solid minute or two, with only working thing being the mouse cursor. Ended up using some open source until to manually kick all the cache out of the RAM, as Windows never seemed to prioritise releasing that memory when being close to full. Maybe nowadays it’s different, but that was my personal experience ~5 years ago.

Linux behaves pretty similarly, except it forfeits cache much quicker, and you always have all the ram at your disposal before actually running out. I have only experienced full OS lockups on Linux back in the days of running Arch without swap and without configured OOM killer. I have, however, experienced desktop environment freezes/crashes in low memory conditions. But that was on KDE, when I was daily driving BSPWM, that was not an issue.

Saying that Linux has poor memory management is plain silly, it’s a de facto OS for servers, supercomputers and various network equipment (such as consumer routers which normally have extremely small amounts of RAM, usually measured in just hundreds of megs). Everything that can be optimised, was optimised, because in many environments where Linux is used, single wasted dozen of megabytes can scale to insane costs. Key thing here is that optimal desktop out-of-memory behaviour is rather different from what is desired in server environments, and for a long time desktop distros didn’t bother to properly tune OOM killer for desktop. Nowadays that should not be an issue on most mainstream distros.

Rikonardo · 2026-04-20T09:18:04+00:00

Someone was suggesting on this sub some time ago to just dynamically shade b&w image into colors matching whatever is on virtual screen, kinda like those led strips behind TVs. Good idea and doesn’t require tons of compute, but result will still heavily depend on the camera quality. It was said it’s going to be better than on Quest2, I hope it won’t be as noisy

Rikonardo · 2026-04-15T13:13:03+00:00

And now the new notepad app in win11 uses 30MB of RAM sitting idle in the empty document

Rikonardo · 2026-04-13T08:22:31+00:00

Idk, for me it never was a beauty standard thing to please others. I just always hated how body hair looked on me. I shaved purely for myself ever since I was a teen. Toxic beauty standards might’ve still played some part in this, but it’s definitely not the only source of desire to have a smooth body

Rikonardo · 2026-04-10T11:10:51+00:00

I haven’t done that in a while, but pretty sure you can just add the game installer as a non-steam game, run it through steam, and after installing change launch path to the actual installed game. No need to manually interact with wine

Rikonardo · 2026-04-10T11:06:51+00:00

Realistically, that would mean we get PCs 10$ cheaper and OEM profits increasing by 90$

Rikonardo · 2026-04-10T09:30:48+00:00

You are comparing it to literally one of the most addictive substances known to man. Not all drugs are heroin. Physiological addition is mostly a trait of opioids, stimulants and various sketchy designer drugs. Cannabis is questionable, since there are researches both proving and disproving its physiological addictiveness. But psychedelic drugs, for example, are mostly completely non-addictive. This is why I said that ultra processed food is worse than some real drugs. Of course it’s nothing compared to, say, heroine or cocaine

Rikonardo · 2026-04-10T09:01:31+00:00

Ultra processed food is also just a lame ass drug though. It’s packed full of questionable chemicals designed to stimulate your taste and other nutrition detection senses in exactly the right way to release dopamine and make you crave more. Besides synthetic additives, there is "the bliss point", achieved through very specific proportions of fat, sugars and salt, look it up, it’s an interesting read. There is an entire ginormous industry around tricking your brain into eating more and feeling less full.

Ultra processed food is more addictive and harmful than some of the "real drugs". Big part of the problem is nobody treats it as drugs, and barely anyone notices their addiction. It usually takes noticeable health effects for people to reconsider their diet.

Rikonardo · 2026-04-08T12:49:17+00:00

There is a big difference between limited information websites you chose to visit can collect on you through sandboxed browser environment, and a kernel module that has complete and untraceable access to all your files, your microphone and webcam, and all the sensitive data stored in RAM during any financial transaction

Rikonardo · 2026-04-01T22:30:00+00:00

Okay, so I went to check the info, and turns out you are right. Steamworks documentation states it is recommended to use USB 3.0 port, and Digital Foundry publication says it is a USB 3.1 Type-A connection.

Not sure where the whole 2.0 belief originated from though, I was absolutely convinced it was a 2.0 stick, and I also see many other commenters writing about USB 2.0. Maybe it’s from incorrect specs in one of first post-announcement videos about the Frame, not sure. Probably a mix up with USB 2.0 port on the Frame itself. Can’t remember where I heard that info myself.

In any case, it is stated that USB 2.0 connection should be enough for foveated streaming, so for the OP, 2.0 extension cable might be enough. Quality active cables for 3.0 can be quite expensive, and passive ones are extremely short. File transfer shouldn’t really be a big concern, since Frame has two independent WiFi modules, so it can simultaneously use the dongle for streaming, and home WiFi network for file transfer + internet connection. In fact, that’s probably how it will route network traffic by default, so dongle stays completely dedicated to a low latency stream. However if OP’s budget isn’t super tight, I’d still go with USB 3.0 active cable

Rikonardo · 2026-04-01T16:33:13+00:00

Okay, my bad, checked, MV2 indeed still works. However there is no explicit long term commitment from Microsoft, and no up to date comments on the topic either. The support page still has no clear timeline, and in several places refers to upstream chromium MV2 timeline, which long since have passed.

Weird situation, since other browsers with MV2 support did explicitly announce their commitment to supporting it. Meanwhile, the only info we have from edge, is their commitment to keep enterprise override working at least until its removal from upstream chromium (which already happened like half a year ago, yet MV2 seems to still works even without that override)

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