I have always thought that copyright on code is a bit pointless. Its like copyrighting engineering formulas and calculations. Given a particular problem, there are obvious solutions. The process should not be copyrightable.

I am also anti-copyrighting of features and ideas.

The only thing that should be copyrightable is the result of an technological or human investment, not the process and method for getting there.

That and copyright protection period should be shorter and non renewable.

Thats a good one. Sounds like a good start for some legislation.

You need to divorce your thinking of AI as a current prominent manifestation of the capitalistic black hole and the technology itself. Before that is was Crypto. Before that it was cloud, before that it was property derivatives. Capitalism will just hijack anything where they can extract value from the quickest.

AI as a technology is very much real and very much physical, it follows the same physical rules that everything else is. Denying that is like saying steam power is not real because you can’t see the force pushing.

AI has been around for 50 years now. Its driven much of engineering progress in the 70s and 80s, our chemical and biological research in the 90s and physics in the 2000s.

The current large language learning models are just a next progression of this technological trend.

Remember absolutism is toxic.

Would you say the same of electricity? There is no way to use it responsibly because its all based on exploitative resource extraction?

I take it you think the only use for a microwave is to cook babies?

Just because you could not find a use for it, does not mean millions of other people have not.

Just like any technology. you can use it responsibly or irresponsibly.

It can if you control the training data, or if the data is public domain.

But I get your point. You can say all the Diamonds you use are conflict free, but out of the thousands you have, how do you know some have not slipped in.

At what point do you say you did a good enough job, and at what point is it too contaminated?

Like many things, it difficult to draw a line, so its up to communities to set a reasonable standard.

Its actually made quite the diffrence because windows 11 uses 18GB of Ram to run BG3, where Linux Mint was able to do the same with only 12GB.

If you only have 16GB of RAM, this avoids having to upgrade your RAM.

They are not as restrictive as people make them out to be. Ostree works quite well for installing a primary app like a different browser.

If you want to avoid dependency conflicts entirely, You can have a look at distro shelf. It allows you to run a container for nearly any distro, install packages and then export those apps to run like native apps. I use it all the time when something is only supported via package and not flatpack, or some other distro only.

The container still maps to your same home folder for file and config access.

I have 3 containers, a fedora workstation one for standard apps I don’t want to do via Flatpak or AppImage. An Debian one for deb packages. And lastly a Arch one, which is for the more experimental apps. If I end up breaking something, I can just wipe the container and start again.

Bazzite has lots of customizations built-in if you download the Asus spin.

It could also be that they decided to change the criteria for what they identify as a Linux device. Especially when they don’t have enough metadata because of good privacy settings.

What did you struggle with?

Debian for servers and fedora for desktop for me.

Some people I will put on Mint for desktop use, if they are super non-technical.

Ubuntu (which is based on Debian) can be too slow to adopt newer software.

Arch on the other side is too quick.

Fedora is a good balance in-between.

Nearly all other distros are derived from these 3 families.

That and Ubuntu’s obsession with Snaps is unhealthy. So many people recommend Debian or Mint over Ubuntu, if you want something very stable.

It is worth noting you can only move partitions into a empty space larger enough for the full partition. Its a copy/delete process not a shift process.

In this case it should work. Delete first two windows partitions. Then move the Linux boot to first part. Then move the root partition Then move the home partition Then finally expand the home partition to the rest of the disk.

You will probably need to fix grub and do an initfs(?) Since the order of partitions have changed.

I agree with this approach. It results in the cleanist install that does not require setting up everything from scratch.

You can even backup your / as well if you want to copy some configs from the current install.

Nano

I would argue for a “Publishers are arseholes” tag, along with other ones like “Studio got closed”, “fired most of the developers”

I agree with you on DRM, but it is worth noting that Value is a rare case where despite having a dominant market position, they continue to offer and improve the best client experience.

Not without missteps of course, but there are nowhere near as bad as Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc.

I tried it on my main desktop after dumping windows. Tried ot along with CachyOS and Bazzite.

CachyOS was too bleeding edge for me.

MX was very easy to work with, but I could not get a lot of my gaming stuff working with my limited skills. Things like HDR was not working well on my monitor, everything just looked washed out. Could not get it converted to Wayland, etc. It did not support 5.1 audio over Spidif on my sound card.

Settled on Bazzite with plasma which was similarly stable, while having the gaming, display and audio stuff correctly configured out of the box.