Ubuntu 6.06 was my first Linux install. I still remember the pain of ndiswrapper to get Windows WiFi drivers working on Linux.

The waifu pillow freaking sent me. Haha.

If a process closes immediately from the shutdown command because it isn’t doing anything, sure.

Depends on the process. Can be 30 seconds. Can be 5 minutes.

Linux gives processes a chance to gracefully close. However, it also will absolutely NOT allow a process to hang up the shutdown or restart procedure after a point. If you’re using systemd (which there is a good chance you are), it’ll count down. If the process hasn’t stopped in the time allotted, it gets Old Yellered.

If you get with one of your local Meshtastic groups, there will likely already be a bunch of people who use it. I joined a local group in San Antonio, TX and there are around 205 nodes run by a few dozen people throughout the city.

Obviously rural areas are going to be less people, but you’d be surprised how many people run it already.

It’s pretty useful for off-grid comms. It’s also pretty cheap to get started. I got two Heltec V3 devices that include the little antennas with them for $37 total.

Oddly, Windows can natively handle .tar.gz now. Found that out the other day.

This has been me with Meshtastic. JFC I’m all in on it. Already have something like 9 nodes built and have been asking if I can place nodes in various places around my town to build out the mesh.

You can change your bootloader output to verbose and it should give you an idea. Probably a startup process hanging for it’s maximum timeout or something.

If your computer takes 15 minutes to boot…something is wrong. Even when I ran Windows on a non-SSD it didn’t take that long.

“If I wasn’t a lesbian, I’d 100% date you”

Normally, I’d write this off as someone “letting me down easy”, but this was my best friend in High school that I knew for years, so I know the sentiment was genuine.

Pretty much. They also enforce usage of the Metal API on iOS, AFAIK. No idea why they don’t just adopt Vulkan across the board. It would make game development so much easier.

Yes but there is not a proton compatibility layer, so games can’t run. Also, Apple pushes their own API Metal over Vulkan and doesn’t support Vulkan. Because Apple. A third party team has to make MoltenVK to translate Vulkan to Metal.

The joke is that trans people in the tech community are typically developers+Linux users with a propensity to prefer Rust for a programming language.

A lot of people have been pushing for Rust to be incorporated into the Linux kernel more, rather than being mostly C.

It’s a joke based on a stereotype.

People bitching about Flatpaks don’t understand that they have dedupe built in. You’re literally not using any more space and it’s easier for app developers to deploy.

Try using Snaps sometime, if you want something to actually bitch about.

You… prefer snaps?

I guess we found the one person with that hot take.

Back in my day we coded in assembly and we liked it that way!

Why Bazzite for a non-gaming setup? Or are your parents gamers?