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@MystikIncarnate @_carmin try different DE like TDE, XFCE, KDE

@stevedice @Adanisi when you writing code in any project, you have copyright on your own code. Nothing prevents you reusing your code with other (even closed source) form until you sign some additional agreement. Yes, you cannot change license of other's code and keep mixed code non-GPL, so you might be need to keep your code in separate file with permissive GPL compatible license to prevent mixing with GPL code.

@devfuuu @cm0002 still using grub installation and configs i generated in 2011. Questions?

@qqq @OpenStars before wow64 introduction, wine required 32 bit process and multilib to run 32 bit code, requiring 32 bit opengl/bulkan implementations
But it is possible to run 32 bit code in 64 bit process.
Wine in wow64 mode enforces 64 bit process to use only lower 32 bits address space and thunks 64 bit libraries via wine nt syscall interface to loaded 32 bit PE binaries. No multilib or even 32 bit process support required, 32 bit instructions executed as is. Also this allows using machine code translation layers (like fexemu) exposing native calls with same syscall interface.
wow64 maybe still limitted because it does not allow calling native libraries directly and increases overhead. win32 TLS code is using same fs segment register as linux 64bit TLS and workarounds may have bigger overhead, than using multilib

@Mwa @NONE_dc *uninstall

@Evil_Shrubbery note that HDMI is even more proprietary than android. IIRC some new HDCP version is impossible to implement in FOSS drivers

@Evil_Shrubbery @MyOpinion having android on hmd not so bad if this android is not locked. But people keeps buying deadly locked devices from meta/bd, that dies if you don't give it internet access

@NONE_dc looks like pipewire moment :)

@Natanox @NONE_dc when i installed windows 7 beta first time, it was impossible to make my realtek audio work with it at all, all drivers failed to start...

@Zwiebel yes :(
Or use some automatic kernel update scripts.
For me, it's better if i update kernel/grub manually, than do some automatic update and find system not booting anymore. But most users prefer automatic update, which sometimes may fail on some systems

@VinesNFluff @westyvw but win9x still using dos drivers, so it is dos application. 32 bit dos application running on untouched dos system. Yes, it implements full 32 bit OS

@Breve i prefer spending couple hours to configure (and half-a-day to rebuild packages) to update my home linux system every half-a-year than using windows. And it seems, there is no windows alternative for non-IT-professionals now because every distro is broken. I still may recommend linux mint as windows alternative, but not sure it really will be better that windows because it's ubuntu based and will catch all ubuntu bugs.
Also, most binary distros build mesa with nouveau enabled, which breaks it. It links lingbm to glappi, which causes dependency hell. Also it adds some slow nouveau call to winsys implementation even if you do not have nvidia, shich causes big slowdown. And linked-in nouveau code in libgallium increases memory footprint This only should be used when you relly use nouveau, but most people replace it with binary blob or not using nvidia at all...