Absolutelyā¦ but technically it requires the media be encoded in a streamable codec. You could not stream an AVI file this way. Transcoding solves this problem, but I digressā¦
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Fair enough. I modify my statement: Certain popular filetypes were always streamable.
I dunnoā¦ depends on what youāre talking aboutā¦ the base OS has improved so much that I routinely run uptimes of 6 to 9 months these daysā¦ and I game with Steam on it too. If youāre a power user you can whip it into shape pretty easily.
The problem I think might be age tbhā¦ Iāve only bothered learning Linux now because of certain advantages and requirements when it comes to AI and maximizing hardware efficiencyā¦ but at my age Iād rather just toss it all in the garbage dump and stick with Windows if I could.
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Iām 51. I can now understand those grumpy old men from my youth. And yeah, Iāve gotten to a point where just working, out weighs almost all else.
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I can understand that. Sensible defaults are good, and Windows has some of the most sensible defaults. Iāve just found that Linux is everything I was trying to get out of my Windows when I was a kid. Now I feel crippled using anything else.
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yeah, that guy is terrible
DONE
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Iām getting tired of the Linux discussion, so I might stop responding to this subject.
I also got into Linux out of necessity, and I tried to make Windows work for a few very specific things for far too long. But the same stubbornness that lead me to attempt to do the impossible on Windows was very useful for finding my way around Linux. Sure, I broke my system way too many times, and reinstalled everything the first few timesā¦ Eventually, I started looking for ways to fix my mistakes instead of reinstalling, etcā¦
Breaking things and looking for ways to fix them is the best way to learn at the end of the day.
I started off on the hardware side of things, but Iām a hacker and Iām stubborn. And this is how I approach problems and projects, itās a part of who I am.
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Absolutely. I simply crossed over into that realm of needing it to just work and my vast experience has been in Windows. When I found I actually needed to use Linux in a serious way, I went for itā¦ solved my problem through tenacious application of hacker ethosā¦ but once the problem was solved I no longer felt the need to explore the depths so to speakā¦ my desktop will likely always remain Windows because Iām of the age where yes Iāll bash my head against something until I get it workingā¦ but only just.
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I use both Windows and Linux, different tools for different jobsā¦
With regards to age, well, Iām younger than you but a bunch of political and family problems that need to be tended to have me in a state of exhaustion and burnoutā¦ 
I do love to make the effort to go learn and solve hard problems when it comes to personal projects, it brings me joy. And there are things were I just want an off the shelf solution or hiring someone to do things for me.
I wish that I had an actual chance to relax and have fun TBH. Why is the world turning into an unpredictable mess? And why do I have more reasons to care about the politics of several countries every day?
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We donāt have to beat a dead house. I just wanted to be clear my argument is mostly with the claim that Linuxās existence is preventing something better.
Iām well aware of the many short comings of Linux.
- I use KDE plasma because itās a windows like interface, which I prefer
- doing anything with printers is a pain
- nvidia support isnāt great
- the move to Wayland is almost resolved but in the recent years has created many bugs while limiting new features
- gimp
I do think itās getting better, and I do think it is usable without touching the terminal. I love the philosophy behind it, but I am not pretending itās perfect.
Iām not saying that you implied any of that, but its important to me that my opions are grounded in truth and objectivity - not fanboying to the extent of the stereotypical Linux user
*I donāt use arch btw
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I really want to reiterate, Warp really does make the terminal experience less of a pain.
I just typed in what port is spice open on and it found the right commands, ran them, and told me.
Interesting, hadnāt heard of it before. Iām pretty happy with my standard terminal emulator and fish shell. The command suggestion feature is very nice
As someone whose first linux experience was installing Mandrake on the home PC in a dual boot without permission (āGet that line-ex shit off the computer!ā) in 2000 or 2001, all i can say is: ho-lee shit! The GUI isnāt this nearly useless, token thing anymore. Ubuntu has been my goto on my rigs for coming up on ten years. Sure, itās linux on easy mode. But it just works the majority of the time. It does have some annoying issues with some smart card readers though.
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I think the really exciting thing is - I disagree. Iāve had a few driver issues with Ubuntu based distros so I switched to tumbleweed. I know a ton of people recommend Fedora or Mint for āeasy modeā to beginners.
Itās taken a while but I do think everything is improving to the point where the easiest distro is a debate - which is awesome. There are so many people saying they installed X distro and it just works. Itās amazing
Yeah, I honestly still havenāt gotten unlocking working yet
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In Wanaka, New Zealand, there is a wacky place called Puzzling World. One of their illusions is an entire room with walls consisting of the concave faces of famous figures that appear to not only be convex but also to follow you as you walk around. Really weird.
It is the āFollowing Facesā attraction detailed here:
https://www.puzzlingworld.co.nz/attractions/illusion-rooms/
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What?
It wasnāt until the moment that I broke my PC to the point that it wouldnāt boot past
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and then shrugged and continued working anyway, that I realised I had finally learned to use linux.
Needs to be replaced! Used it for years when I was doing digital painting. Such a headache, saving states that you didnāt want saved, forgetting them after updates, and now you canāt find the setting to put things back where they were. (Now when I do draw still draw, I turn to krita, and for simple cropping and rotating I use ImageMagick convert, but that only covers a small subset of what gimp is trying to do. Trying to do too many things in one Iād say.)
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