ripdog

Well, I think the issue is in the AMD GPU driver. So, presumably it works on the Frame natively? Surely... Right?

For good reason. Last time I checked (this year), Alyx crashes Mesa (i.e. your Vulkan layer) when the player enters an in-game load zone. This happens with native linux and the proton windows version.

That's something people should run themselves. I run Adguard Home on my router. Unlike the main Adguard product, Adguard Home is fully FOSS. It's been rock-solid for me, and improves on pi-hole in various ways - like full IPv6 support.

I honestly think the kernel interface is by far the easiest part of building a MacOS compat layer. The userland is gigantic, super complex, and totally closed source. That's the hard part.

AFAIK all macos software only talks to the kernel via userland APIs - so there's no particular benefit to basing ravynOS on XNU anyway. (Just the opinion of a layman.)

Because more-or-less all code in the kernel increases the attack surface and makes general security improvements more difficult. Removing code of all types makes maintainability easier, so old, unmaintained code is an easy sell for removal.

>This is the opposite of what my parent was hoping to see, extended support for old/obscure hardware because we have LLM.

That would only happen if the linux project was happy to accept LLM-generated fixes without human review - which they aren't. If human review is necessary, then unleashing LLMs to produce fixes and improvements to thousands of linux drivers is a detriment, not a benefit. The amount of code would just be too much, and reviewers would be swamped.

They're being removed due to a lack of maintenance. If anyone cared about that hardware and fixed the bugs, surely they would be kept.

So, devuan?

Windows has containers?

I'd argue that's more because the average person has no interest in installing a new OS, or even any idea what an OS is.

Most people just keep the default. When the default is Linux (say, the Steam Deck), most people just keep Linux.

Because latency matters when gaming in a way which doesn't matter with AI inference?

Plus cloud gaming is always limited in range of games, there are restrictions on how you can use the PC (like no modding and no swapping savegames in or out).

AFAIK it's not really possible to implement Everything in Linux because Everything relies on reading the entire file list at once from the NTFS metadata, allowing it to index at incredible speed. On Linux, there are dozens of filesystems which likely make it impossible to achieve the same.

That said, I do wonder why Linux gone search is always so slow even on indexed files.

It's incredibly obnoxious when people type "in my country" as if we're all supposed to just... know where they live. It's also incredibly common. Why do people do this?