I’m here to stay.
But that is a decision the user takes, not Google. If people don’t want to install alternative stores because its too much work, then its not Googles fault. The problem is that phone manufactures do not have the alternative stores installed (besides Samsung). Its entirely in the hands of phone manufacturers and they should be sued over, not Google.
I just want to play games.
Edit: On a more serious note, I am actually a bit on Googles side here. Because everyone can actually install an alternative store. It’s like asking Steam to add an installer for GOG and Epic Games Store in the Steam store. There is no technical limitation on the smartphones why anyone could not install alternative stores or software. The lack of installed alternative stores right from the start is not a fault of Google, but the phone manufactures who did not put these by default.
Overall, am I wrong with my observation? I really think Google is not at fault for this particular thing.
It only shows up when you use the dropdown menu to filter for Linux only. Then you also will see Freedesktop SDK (Flatpak). For whatever reason Flatpak and SteamOS Holo are ignored if you look at all operating systems instead Linux only. If you compare the numbers, they are not added to Archlinux or anything else.
Where is this stated?? If that was the case, the difference to other distros would be much higher. SteamOS is usually listed separately as HoloISO: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux
The survey is just accepting to send some auto collected data. There is no “real survey” involved.
Does Archlinux include SteamOS? Why isn’t SteamOS not listed, but several versions of Ubuntu is listed separately? Wasn’t SteamOS making up about half the Steam users using Linux? I would like to see multiple ways and options to enable and disable for Linux grouping, and longer lists. It may be enough for MacOS or Windows, but not for Linux.
I am curious too. You tested two different versions, one beta and the other current nightly (different content). It’s okay for a quick test, but you can actually have a much closer test. Both nightly and only one day difference:
I run this quick test multiple times and on average these are typical results (don’t forget to delete the unpacked folder between each runs):
$ time tar xjf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
real 0m5,784s
user 0m5,700s
sys 0m0,371s
$ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
real 0m1,699s
user 0m1,621s
sys 0m0,315s
I’m not sure if that was his goal, so I wouldn’t say the person was a troll or like that. I think it was just a situation of frustration and then losing control a bit. I’m not excusing it, just trying to analyze and looking between the lines and above and after. Yeah, I pretty much learned this skill from Reddit days. :D
Most normal users do not do this. But there might be special packages with special setups, like scripts downloading and installing from Mozillas download links. Or package creators themselves might use it. Or maybe you are a developer, in which case such direct downloads would be helpful for testing and comparing stuff. I also assume most people do not care or notice any difference with this change. Still its an improvement without much drawback and thats always good, even if its only a few people benefiting of it.
Sums up the average Windows user.
But isn’t it unsecure if you connect it to networks or worse, the internet? I would use Windows 7 ONLY in a virtual machine, or alternatively on real machine that is not connected to the internet.
To be totally fair, I don’t mind people being critical about Linux in our Linux community. And he brings up a few good points, but loses in some other. And so the arguments he has are muddied with his tone as well, that it comes over as a toxic comment rather than a critical comment pointing real issues.
I’m a Linux fanboy, but even I realize there are problems. And its okay to talk about problems. But its not okay in the tone he did. In my opinion.
No, this is Patrick.
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I like seeing the EU more and more adopting open source and decentralized technologies. Looks like the EU will be the leading role in that regard. The US might not do this, because they like to collect information and don’t want to give information to the enemy. I guess something like that. And Japan? No idea what the state of this topic is in Japan.
Does your Antivirus or Firewall prevents it from accessing the internet maybe?
Definitely VirtualBox in my opinion. I used it before. Recently switched to libvirt with virt-manager (Qemu+Kvm), but this is really a bit more advanced and need more understanding and setup. VirtualBox is much easier and simple.
Snapshot feature of VB is fantastic (not to any reader, snapshot is not an screenshot, rather a temporary image point of the entire system you can revert back anytime like a backup). Binding and accessing directories from your host system is also relatively easy, if I remember right. It’s been a while since I used VirtualBox.
Productivity goes up, quality goes down.
In that case, its all Google I agree.