Debatable. I’d argue that they’re FOSS-specific

Unix socks are for more than just Arch

I see, so it’s a situation where catching the full blame can tank your career. Yeah, that makes sense.

Sounds like the devs are cowards. Or maybe their pay counts on it not being a bug

I used to use Lutris, but I found Heroic more consistent and convenient for filling the same purpose. It’s quite good at downloading just the diff needed for GoG game updates these days, for instance, which is key for big games like Baldur’s Gate 3.

Agreed. Proton is important as a bit of an “iPhone moment” where all this tech comes together in a way where non-techies “get it” in the sense where they understand why it’s useful, even if they’ll never bother to learn the details of why or how.

Proton is Wine plus DXVK and VKD3D, as well as a big pile of little tweaks and out of tree changes that Valve maintains to specifically maximize game compatibility and performance.

Proton uses Wine, which is a Windows system call API translation layer for Linux. In other words, it translates commands for the Windows kernel into calls for the Linux kernel.

So it’s kind of an emulator and kind of not, but regardless the metaphor of a translator is fine. As a lightweight translator, you might say it’s like using Google Translate on your phone to translate back and forth quickly and automatically, rather than having a person in the middle who needs to think about it.

For browsers, in general, flatpak and snap are worse than native packages.

C

Yep, it’s C

Proton-GE usually solves this issue too, since it bundles in more video codecs

Meh, even Java has decent FP paradigm support these days. Just because you can do everything in an OO way in Java doesn’t mean you need to.

Technical enough to be hired, is all I meant. 🙄

How on earth is it offensive to say they’re “not experts”? They’re not prodigies with PhDs. These specific young men are just technical enough and ideologically aligned.

He hired a bunch of 19-25 year old. Not experts

I’ve been a Linux user for nearly 20 years and my main gaming rig is Mint because it’s convenient and gets out of my way when it’s time to game.

They’re using Plex for friends and JF for themselves, if you read the comment you replied to.

Am I right to assume you’ve got a laptop? Otherwise 70C is a terrible temp to hit at idle

Generally the app is better. Compatible with more container formats, audio formats (surround sound, Dolby digital, etc), and has hardware supported decoding for h265 video in addition to h264.