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  • If that’s your attitude, then I don’t think this is going to work out.

    Wine is not a company. People building and fixing Wine to support a specific piece of software are largely volunteers. Noone works at Wine. Noone does product support. It’s a free service created by volunteers.

    That’s how most Linux software gets built. And none of these people owe you anything. No support, no easy to use config.

    Frankly, you sound incredibly entitled and unwilling to listen and learn to everyone here who’s tried to help you.

    To answer your original question: there’s no one global way to make Wine run all software out of the box. That’s why Valve spends so much time tuning different setups of Wine for all the games they support. CodeWeavers to some extent does that for non game software.

    Doing this for the wide variety of Windows software out there is an impossibly large task and frankly out of scope for what most Linux distributions have as a goal or intended use case. If you want to run Windows software on Linux, there are many different projects that try to package or help you install the most popular things. But other than that, you’re free to try on your own.



  • wim@lemmy.sdf.orgtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    9 months ago

    I recently was in the market for a new dishwasher.

    I compared the EU eco labels (which are based on water and energy use).

    Buying the worst possible eco label currently on the market, and comparing it against the best two:

    • A label dishwashers cost almost twice as much (up to €400 more)
    • ombined energy and water costs saved over the lifetime of the device (which I optimistically set for 10 years at three cycles a week) is less than €100 euros
    • If you’re not into money, but more concerned about the planet, think about it this way: how much damage could €100 in energy and water spread over 10y really be causing our planet?
    • These savings are only achieved if you use the most ecological program, which fails at it’s primary job, which is cleaning dishes.

    If I could find a decent 90s model for which parts were still widely available, I’d buy that instead. I truly doubt that burning through these poorly made newer devices are sufficiently more ecological than just using a old machine for a longer time.


  • I have one of these, but only use it for SteamVR. Does this mean I can’t update either?

    AFAIK, the drivers come from Windows.

    Edit:

    From the article:

    Existing Windows Mixed Reality devices will continue to work with Steam through November 2026, if users remain on their current released version of Windows 11 (version 23H2) and do not upgrade to this year’s annual feature update for Windows 11 (version 24H2). This deprecation does not impact HoloLens.

    Well fuck. This headset is the only reason I keep a Windows PC around at all.



  • wim@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux Boomers
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    10 months ago

    To quote the author himself:

    Great, do whatever you want. Just shut the fuck up about it, nobody cares.

    But then he proceeds to do the exact opposite and posts a vitriolic rant about how everyone who doesn’t use what they use is, in their words, and idiot.



  • Sorry, yes, that was durability. I got it mixed up in my head. Availability had lower targets.

    But I stand by the gist of my argument - you can achieve a lot with a live/live system, or a 3 node system with a master election, or…

    High availability doesn’t have to equate high cost or complexity, if you can take it into account when designing the system.


  • I used to work on an on premise object storage system before, where we required double digits of “nines” availability. High availability is not rocket science. Most scenarios are covered by having 2 or 3 machines.

    I’d also wager that using the cloud properly is a different skillset than properly managing or upgrading a Linux system, not necessarily a cheaper or better one from a company point of view.


  • Got to agree with @[email protected] here, although it depends on the scope of your service or project.

    Cloud services are good at getting you up and running quickly, but they are very, very expensive to scale up.

    I work for a financial services company, and we are paying 7 digit monthly AWS bills for an amount of work that could realistically be done with one really big dedicated server. And now we’re required to support multiple cloud providers by some of our customers, we’ve spent a TON of effort trying to untangle from SQS/SNS and other AWS specific technologies.

    Clouds like to tell you:

    • Using the cloud is cheaper than running your own server
    • Using cloud services requires less manpower / labour to maintain and manage
    • It’s easier to get up and running and scale up later using cloud services

    The last item is true, but the first two are only true if you are running a small service. Scaling up on a cloud is not cost effective, and maintaining a complicated cloud architecture can be FAR more complicated than managing a similar centralized architecture.