I got my start with linux by using Mandrake, way back in the 2.14 kernel days, so it makes me smile to see a successor to that coming out as anti-woke.
Linux is staunchly C, not C++, but the point still applies.
Personally, I wonder if Rust will have any relevance in 2 decades. C, Zig, or a cleaner C++ like for low level systems programming (with better tools to write memory safe code), and a automatic memory managed language with good enough performance for newer hardware. If Rust were such a developer improvement over c++, why hasn't a Rust game engine displaced Unity and Godot?
I got a cheap, old laptop and figured I'd spend a summer tinkering and getting Linux running on it. Mint worked out of the box, didn't even have sound card issues, so I had to play video games that summer instead.
The one thing I only ever had issues with on linux was apt being a bitch and once a network driver wasn't available which I could download with another PC and put on there. Was some very niche one, too for a really niche PC.
That depends on your GPU honestly but even that's slowly fading away. x11+nvidia doesn't like a lot of scaling, especially if you have 2 displays with differing resolutions(which is kinda the main reason you'd want scaling, no?). Thankfully Nvidia+wayland now work pretty well and I've used scaling myself.
I got my start with linux by using Mandrake, way back in the 2.14 kernel days, so it makes me smile to see a successor to that coming out as anti-woke.
I'm pretty sure I still have the install CDs. Great memories.
What's woke about rust? That the shit where they do away with "oppressive" terms like "master" and "slave", etc?
Linux is staunchly C, not C++, but the point still applies.
Personally, I wonder if Rust will have any relevance in 2 decades. C, Zig, or a cleaner C++ like for low level systems programming (with better tools to write memory safe code), and a automatic memory managed language with good enough performance for newer hardware. If Rust were such a developer improvement over c++, why hasn't a Rust game engine displaced Unity and Godot?
It's also infested by trannies.
How is Mint for us newbies?
I got a cheap, old laptop and figured I'd spend a summer tinkering and getting Linux running on it. Mint worked out of the box, didn't even have sound card issues, so I had to play video games that summer instead.
The one thing I only ever had issues with on linux was apt being a bitch and once a network driver wasn't available which I could download with another PC and put on there. Was some very niche one, too for a really niche PC.
Mint is the best distro for Just Working. It might not be absolutely perfect, but it's as close as you're gonna get.
The main issue I had with it was that display scaling didn't work great. It was okay, but Windows really has scaling nailed down.
That depends on your GPU honestly but even that's slowly fading away. x11+nvidia doesn't like a lot of scaling, especially if you have 2 displays with differing resolutions(which is kinda the main reason you'd want scaling, no?). Thankfully Nvidia+wayland now work pretty well and I've used scaling myself.
Last time I tried it 7 years ago it still had driver issues with regular mice.
I was gonna ask this
I use PCLinuxOS, a fork of Mandrake. I will install OpenMandriva on a VM to try it out and support them.
Never even heard of this one before. How's it? Anyone used it before?
VoidLinux looks to be totally apolitical as far as I know, and it's also systemd free. So that's two counts of faggotry avoided.